CENTROXIPUS. 33 



broadly black ; front of pronotum and face palely pilose ; pronotum 

 coarsely pmictate, lateral transverse processes as seen from above 

 broad, carinate behind middle, apex roundly truncate and a little 



Fig. 26. — Xilaufama iyjnca, 



recurved, as viewed in front narrow and obliquely upwardly 

 divergent ; posterior process tincarinate, apex acutely narrowed ; 

 teginina coarsely punctate at base. 



Length 7 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 4| millim. 



Hah. " India" (^>-ti. J/«s.). Tenasserim ; M.y\tt^ (Doherty). 



Genus CENTROTYPUS. 



Centrotvpus, StSl, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 88 (1866) ; id. Of v. Ve/.-Ak. 

 Jo/7/.' 1869, p. 281 ; Atkius. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 87 (1885). 



Type, C. amplicornis, Stal, from Cambodia. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



Face gradually narrowed from base, without basal lobes on each 

 side ; posterior pronotal process not siuuated on each side from 

 base to scutellum, never well separated from scutellum, gradually 

 narrowed and covering the wliole or almost the whole of the scu- 

 tellum ; posterior pronotal area distinctly centrally carinate, the 

 carination either not or very obsoletely continued anteriorly, where 

 it is replaced by a somewhat smooth line; sides of scutellum not 

 prominent ; scutellum only a little, seldom twice, as broad as the base 

 of the posterior pronotal process; tegmina with five apical areas, 

 costal and radial areas abbreviated at about the same distance 

 from base. 



2145. Centrotypus flexuosus, Fabr. (Membracis) Ent. Sijst. iv, p. 12 

 (1794) ; id. (Centrotus) Syst.Rhym/.^. 18(180-3) : Fainn. Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. 1846, p. 516 ; Stdl (Centrotypus), Hem. Fabr. ii, 

 p. 51 (1869); id. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forlt. 1869, p. 286; Atkin.'?. 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 87 (1885) ; Buckt. Monogr. Metnbrac p. 2-37, 

 t. liv, f. 1 (190.3). 

 Centrotus anchorago, Guer. Icon. Reg. An. t. lix, f. 4 (1829-44). 



Pi'onotum very dark indigo-blue ; face, body beneath and legs 

 dull black, more or less thickly, shortly, palely pilose : tegmina 

 very pale ochraceous, the apical area broadly castaneous, the base 

 and costal and radial areas bluish-black ; pronotum coarsely 

 punctate ; the lateral transverse processes as seen from above 

 broad, laminate, wxnnkled, apically obliquely truncate, posteriorly 



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