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MEMBEACIDA". 



The former rest head downwards, tlie latter head upwards, thus 

 briugiiig the curve of tlieir spines in the right direction." {E. 

 E. Green in liti.) 



2138. Leptocentrus reponens, IVa/k. (Centrotus) List 7/o>». ii, p. 604 

 (ISr^l) ; Atkins. (Leptoceiilrus) J.A.S.B. liv, p. 86 (1885); 

 Melidi. (Centrotus) Horn. Faun. Ceylun, p. 110 (1903). 

 Centrotus antilope, Sttd, Freq. Eiiq. Hem, Lis. p. 2S4 (1859) ; id. 

 (Leptocentrus) Ofc. Vet.-Ak. Forh. p. 727 (1870). 



Head, prouotuni, and sciitellum black ; face thickly ochraceously 

 pilose ; basal two-thirds of seutellum and lateral areas of sternum 

 cretaceonsly sericeous ; abdomen beneath black, more or less 

 sparingly cretaceonsly sericeous ; legs piceous ; tegmina pale 

 bronzy, base piceons and punctate, basal costal margin narrowly 

 piceous. 



Allied to the two preceding species but diflering by the shape 

 of the transverse pronotal processes, \\liich are much broader above 

 and somewhat foliaceously convex at their anterior margins. 



Length G| ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 5 millim. 



Hah. IS'orth Bengal {Brit. Mus.). Tenasserim ; Myitta 

 (JJoJiertij). — Sumatra ; Philippines. 



Both Walker and Meliehar included this species in their 

 enumeration of Cingalese Membracida-, but I have found no 

 example in the extensive collection made of these insects in 

 Ceylon by Mr. Green. 



21)59. Leptocentrus leucaspis, JJ'a/k. (Centrotus) i«< Mom. Snppl. 

 p. 158 (185N) ; Bvclct. (J^eptocentrus) Monoyr. Membrac. p. 235 

 t. liii, f. 3, a, h (1903). 

 Centrotus taurus, Walk, {nee Fabr.) List Horn, ii, p. 602 (1851). 



Head, pronotum, and seutellum black ; basal two-thirds of 

 seutellum and lateral areas of sternum cretaceonsly sericeous ; 

 abdomen beneath black, legs piceous ; tegmina shining ochraceous, 

 the costal margin, obscure]y|at base, black; pronotum coarsely 



Fig. 25. 



'Lri^tocc'itirus leucai^jri^. 



punctate; the lateral transverse processes slender, centrally 

 carinate above and somewhat strongly recurved ; the posterior 

 process tricariiiate above, recurved from near base and touching 



