PEEL^MAX. 'f7 



line with the crescentie anterior margin of the pronotuni. Tliis 

 is the real and sufficient character which separates Emphusu froiu 

 Centrotijpiis, 



2152. Emphusis malleus, Walk. (Centrotus) List Horn, ii, p. 013 

 (1851). 

 Centrotypus obesus, Atkins, (part.) J. A. S. B. liv, p. 88 (188-)) ; 

 Melich. (part.) Honi. Faun. Ceylon, p. 116 (1903). 



Pronotum indigo-black ; head, body beneath and legs dull black, 

 finely pilose ; tegmina stramineous, extreme base, costal and radial 

 areas black, apical area bronzy-brown ; pronotum coarsely 

 punctate, antei-iorly broad and rounded ; the lateral transverse 



Fig. 29. — Emphusis malleus. 



processes somewhat short, recurved, posteriorly bicarinate above, 

 their apices broadly subacute ; the posterior process somewhat 

 broad and very strongly tricariuate above, its apex acute and very 

 slightly passing tlie posterior angle of the inner margin, the 

 central carination only continued on the basal area of the 

 pronotum ; tegmiua w ith the black basal, costal and radial areas 

 punctate ; anterior legs not prominently iucrassate. 



Length 8| ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 6 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Kalutara {Green). 



Stai (Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Eiirh. 18G0, p. 280), and Atkinson and 

 Melichar {supra) treat this species as a synonym of C. obesus, 

 Fairm. = maneator, Walk. = inaUeohis, Walk. The latter, however, 

 is a distinct Javan species in which the pronotal angles are much 

 more obtuse than in C. malleus, AValk. 



G-enus PEKIAMAN, uov. 



Type, P.Jlavolineatus, Buckt. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions. 



race strongly emarginate before clypeus ; pronotum frontally 

 roundly oblique ; the lateral processes moderately broad and trans- 

 verse, not prominently gibbous before posterior process which is 

 robust, gradually narrowing to apex but not extending beyond the 

 posterior angle of the iimer margin of tegmina ; tegmina broad, 

 apical areas long and five in number; femora moderately thickened, 

 tibiie simple. 



The Centrotus limbatus, Walk., from Borneo also finds a place in 

 this genus. 



