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MEMBEACIDiE. 



posterior processes slender, closely impinging on tegraina, finely 

 laterally and centrally carinate, the central carination continued 

 through pronotum, apex passing posterior angle of inner margin 

 of tegmina ; legs finely pilose. 



Length 5| ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 3 millim. 



Hub. Ceylon; Badulla, Maskeliya, Jvandy, Pundaluoya {Green). 



To be distinguished from the preceding species P. atricoccis by 

 the slightly shorter and more subtriangular pronotal lateral 

 processes. 



2] 64. Pogon aiiriculatum, StM (Leptobelus), Ofv. Vet.-Al: Fdrh. 

 1869, p. i>8u ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceyhn, p. 114 (1903). 



" Ferruginous, punctulate, moderately silaceo-sericeous, thorax 

 above the lateral angles shortly coruuted, the processes short and 



Fig. 36. — Pogon auriculatuM. 



compressed ; tegmina palely ferruginous-hyaline, base of clavus, 

 the whole of costal area, and radial area before middle and 

 outwardly behind middle ferruginous, opaque and punctate." 

 {StdJ.) 



This species is to be distinguished from the other examples of 

 the genus here previously enumerated, by the much shorter lateral 

 pronotal processes. 



Length $ 5^ millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Stockholm Museum). 



I have not received this species inyself from Ceylon and am 

 indebted to Dr. Yngve Sjiistedt of Stockholm for enabling me to 

 figure it. 



2165. Pogon? ferrilgineum, il/e/u7?. {Cenh-uchus) Ho7n. Fauu. Ceylon, 

 p. 114 (1903). 



"Whole upper surface and underside rusty-yellow; face and 

 pronotum very thickly and finely punctured, bare, the lateral pro- 

 jections short, prismatic, directed obliquely upward and outward, 

 above with a very fine short keel, the hinder projection narrow, 

 impinging on the scutellum, towards the back pointed like a 

 thorn and weakly wave-like, curved, the tip slightly exteuding 

 beyoiul the tip of tlie clavus and slightly arched downward, ridged 

 in middle and on sides, the middle keel on pronotum reduced and 

 very prominent ; scutellum longish, triangular, punctured, not 

 tomentose; tegmina hyaline, rusty yellow, transversely crinkled 



