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MEMBSAClD.i;. 



2134. Indicopleustes curvatiis, Melich. (Centi-otus) Ilom. Faun. 

 CvyloH, p. lli^ (1003). 



"Small species, distinguished b)^ the remarkably strong wave- 

 like, curved, posterior spine process and the short, obliquely 

 truncated, transverse, lateral horns. Pitchy-brown, thickly punc- 

 tate, with very short yellowish hair ; the lateral processes rather 

 broad, prismatic, rising obliquely upward, truncated at end, front 

 angles rounded off, the hinder pointed ; posterior process prismatic, 

 sti-ongly curved at base so that there is a free space between the 

 scutellum, the middle of process impinging on scutellum and 

 thence ^\•ave-like, curved, the sharp point directed downward ; on 

 the prouotum a distinct middle keel losing itself in the upper 

 corner of the spine process ; tegmina pitchy-brown, thickly punc- 

 tux'ed at the base to half ; wings fuliginous : underside pitchy- 

 brown : anterior legs rusty-brown, intermediate and posterioi' legs 

 pale yellow." {Melichar.) 



Ditibrs from 1. aJbomamlatus in the smaller size, truncate apices 

 to tlie lateral pronotal processes, different colour of the legs, etc. 

 The sternum and the base of the scutellum is cretaceously 

 sericeous. 



Length 4 to 4^ ; breadtb lat. pronot. process. 3 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon: Kandy, Peradeniya (6r';-(;fn). 



Genus ACANTHOPHYES. 



Acanthopliyes, St&l, Hem. Afric. iv, pp. 87 & 89 (1866); ul Ofi\ 

 Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1869, p. 281 ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 84 (1885). 



Ty]:)e, A. albijoennis, Stfil, a South-African species.* 



DlstrUmtion. Ethiopian and Oriental Regions. 



" Thorax nnich elevated between the lateral angles, very often 

 cornuted above the same angles ; posterior process remote from 

 the scutellum, bisinuate beneath, more or less amplified or lobed 

 in the middle, between the sinus, with the amplified part reaching 

 the dorsum of the abdomen or the apex of the scutellum ; tegmina 

 \\\i\\ five apical, two discoidal areas ; wings with four apical areas ; 

 tibia? simple." (Stal.) 



2135. Acanthopliyes capra, Fubr. (Membiacis) Ent. Si/st. Suppl. 

 p. 514 (1798) ; id. (Centrotus) Syst. Ehi/rify. p. 20 (1803) ; >Stc7l 

 (AcaDth(iplnes),//ra^ Fahr. i'l, p. 50 (1S69); Atkins. J. A. 

 S. B. liv, p. 84 (1885j. 



" Ferruginous-black or ferruginous, remotely flavesceut greyish- 



* Stal, when he originally desei-ibed this genus, first mentioned tbe species 

 Centrotns hamifer, Fairni. and C. curvidens, Fairni. as belonging to it. Sub- 

 sequently (1869) he included both these species in his genus Campiilocoitrus. 

 It seems, therefore, necessary to take the Ethiopian A. aZ/tipciniis, StSl, as (vpe 

 of the genus AcanthophyrF.. 



