28 membeacid.t:. 



c. Posterior pronotal process slender, scarcely 

 or slightly elevated above scutellum, hut 

 as a rule not elevated above tegmina .... Otinoti s. p. 39. 

 B. Veins to apical areas of tegmina strongly 



curved inwardly Pogon, p. 42. 



Genus LEPTOCENTRUS. 



Leptccentrus, StcV, Hem. Afr. iv. pp. 87 &.90 (1800) : id. Ofv. Vet.- 

 Ak. lor/i. 1809, p. 281 '; Atkh/s. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 85 (1885) ; 

 Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 116 (1903). 



Type, L. bos. Sign., :i West-African species. 



Distribvtion. Ethiopian and Oriental TIegions. 



J^'ront of prouotum more or less obliquely prominent towards 

 face ; pronotum ■\\ itli anteriorly produced transverse processes ; 

 posterior process slender, tricarinate, emitted a little before the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum, well sepai'ated from thescutellum 

 and abdomen, sometimes, but seldom, posteriorly touching the 

 interior margin of the tegmina, neither sinuated beneath nor 

 medially amplified ; scutelkim transverse, nearly equally long as 

 broad, apically emarginate and of moderate size; tegmina with 

 five apical, two discoidal areas, none of them petiolated ; wings 

 with four apical areas ; tibire simple. 



213G. LeptocentniS taurus, Fabr. (Membracis) Sj/sf. Fnt. p. 676 

 (1775): id. (Centrotus) Syst. llhyntj. p. 20 (1803); Oliv. 

 (Membracis)i?«e. Meth. vii, p. 665 (1792) ; <S7f?/ (Leptoceutrus), 

 Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 50 (1869); Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 85 

 (1885) ; Melick. How. Faun. Ceyfon, p. 116 (1903). 



j\Ienibracis rupicapra, Fahr. Fitt. fiii/sf. Svppl. ]). 514 (1798) ; id. 

 (C'entrotus) Syst. lihyny. p. 18 (1803). 



Membracis tricornis, Harda-. Zool. Jonrn. iv, p. 114, Suppl. 

 t. XXX, tf. c, rf, /'(1828). 



Centrotus terminalis, Jl'a/k. List Hoin. ii, p. (504 (1851) ; Sfal, 

 Ofc. Vet.-Ak. Foi-h. 1862, p. 491; Melich. Horn. Faun. Cnjhni. 

 p. 109 (1903). 



Centrotus vicarius, Walk. torn. cit. p. 605. 



Leptocentrus gazella, i?//r/,7. Monaqr. Memhrao. p. 235, t. liii. f. 5« 

 (1903). 



Head and pronotum black ; scutellum and sternal lateral 

 margins cretaceously sericeous ; body beneath black ; legs 

 castaneous, sometimes the femora piceous ; tegmina pale brouzy- 

 ochraceous, a narro^\" pale piceous subiuarginal streak beyond 

 middle of costa ; pronotum thickly coarsely punctate ; the trans- 

 verse lateral processes robust, strongly recurved, above tricarinate, 

 the central carination nearer posterior than anterior margin, 

 apices subacute ; the pronotal front and face in fresh specimens 

 are thickly palely ochraceously pilose ; posterior frontal process 

 strongly tricarinate above, curved and a])ically touching the interior 

 margin of the tegmina, the central carination continued through 



