POGON". 



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areas are bouuded by these curved nervures and those forming tlie 

 two discoidal celhiles. The posterior horn is less than halt' the 

 length of the abdomen " (this last character represents a 

 mutilation). 



The lateral pronotal processes as seen from above are bicarinate, 

 with their apices obliquely truncate. 



" Exjianse 12 ; size 0x4 millim." 



Eab. Ceylou {Green, Brit. Mus.); Pattipola {Green, Coll. Dist.). 



2162. Pogon atricoxis, Kirhi/ (Centrotus), J. Liirn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 

 p. 104 (1891) ; Mclich. (purt.) (Centrucluis) Horn. Faun. Cei/lon, 

 p. 113 (1903). 



Head and pronotum black, very shortly greyishly pilose ; sternum 

 and abdomen beneath cretaeeously sericeous ; legs castaneous, 

 hnely greyishly pilose ; tegmina dark castaneous, paler towards 

 apex, the veins and costal and basal areas very finely and more 

 palely pilose ; pronotum finely obscurely punctate ; lateral pro- 

 cesses as seen from above transverse, apically recurved, bicarinate, 



Fig. 35. — Foi/oi/ (ij 



rico.vts. 



their apices subacute, as viewed from in front much narrower 

 and their apices more acute ; posterior process slender, closely 

 impinging on the tegmina, finely laterally and centrally carinate, 

 its apex passing the posterior angle of tlie inner margin of the 

 tegmina, which have a very small paler spot near posterior angle 

 of inner margin. 



Length G ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 3^ millim. 



Mab. Ceylon; Ivandy, ]N"a\valapitya (GVee/t). 



2163. Pogon cupreum, Kirh// (Centrotus), J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 

 p. 1(;8 (1891); 31elicli. (Centrucluis) Ho7n. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 113 (1903) ; Biickt. (Sextius) Monoi/r. Membrac. p. 22&, t. 1, 

 f. 8 « (1903). 



Head and pronotum purplish-brown, very finely, shortly and 

 more palely pilose ; sternum and abdomen beneath more or less 

 cretaeeously sericeous ; legs pale testaceous ; tegmina purplish- 

 brown, becoming more ochraceoas on apical area, the veins and 

 costal and basal areas very finely and more palely pilose ; pronotum 

 finely punctate ; lateral processes as seen from above broadly sub- 

 triangular and apically recurved, bicarinate, apices subacute, as 

 viewed from the front much narrower and the apices more acute ; 



