LEPTOCENTRL'S, 31 



the apex of the iutei-ior margiu of tegraiiia which are punctate at 

 base. 



Length 7 to 1) ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 4.1 to 7 millim. 



Hah. C\\a.tYii\)nv{8Uhhiu(i),'Dv\mJ)u.m.{Fmva). Ceylon; Kandy, 

 Pundaluoya, MaskeHya, Peradeniya {Green). — Philippines {Coll. 

 Dlst.). 



This and the following species L. mejihistopJieles are to be 

 distinguished by the long and slender lateral transverse 

 pronotal processes. 



2140. Leptocentnis mephistopheles. IJucJ.i. Momx/r. Membrac. 



p. 235, t. liii, f. 4 (1903). 



Buckton thus describes this species : — " This insect differs from 

 L. lei'cas/ns in wanting the white tomentose patches on tlu^ 

 dorsum and in the browner colour of the pronorum. The 

 abdomen of the male is stout and ringed and the pronotal 

 posterior is shorter and rather more curved. The supra-humerals 

 are somewhat slender, but variation is common as to their 

 curvatui'es. The tegmiua are hyaline." 



Buckton's unique type is now in my possession but in a 

 mutilated condition ; t:he colour of the legs is a distinctive 

 character as compared with L. leucaspis, very pale ochraceous, the 

 femora (excluding apices) and the apices of the tarsi piceous ; the 

 tegmina are pale ochraceous, subhyaline ; otherwise it seems (so 

 far as a crushed specimen allows comparison to be made) to 

 conform to the general characters of Walker's species. 



Length 8 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 5 millim. 



Hah. kSikhim {Flicker). 



2141. Leptocentnis longispinus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, body beneath, and legs black, more or less 

 longly palely pilose ; base of scutellum and lateral areas of sternntn 

 cretaceously sericeous ; tegmina pale ochraceous, subhyaline. 

 extreme base and broad costal area to apex black; pronotum 

 coarsely punctate, somewhat thickly longly pilose on disk and 

 front ; the lateral processes very long, as seen from above moder- 

 ately regularly curved backward, prominently longitudinally 

 carinate near posterior margin, the anterior margin a little 

 upwardly recurved, apex subacute, as seen in front much narrower, 

 widely divergent, obliquely directed upward ; posterior process 

 slender, tricarinate, moderately curved to apex which passes the 

 posterior angle of the inner margin of tegmina, « idely separated 

 from scutellum, impinging on tegmina at apex, the central 

 carination iinely continued through pronotum ; face tliickly longly 

 pilose; tegmina punctate at base ; legs pilose. 



Length 9; breadth lat. pronot. process. 9 millim. 



Hab. Burma {Brit. Mus.). 



A species to be recognized by the length of the lateral pronotal 

 processes. 



