CENTROTUS. 



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Centrotus bioculatus, Kh-htf, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. KiO 

 (1891) ; Mf'/ic/i. Horn. Fauii. Ceylon, p. Ill (1903). 



Head and prouotum purplish-black ; two spots in centre of front 

 and a spot on each side of base of scutellum greyish-sericeous ; 

 lateral areas of ^sternum and abdomen beneath more or less verv 



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Fig. 38. — Cfutru(ii.'< hiocidnfu^. 



pale ochraeeously sericeous ; legs purp]ish-bro^^•^, palely pilose ; 

 tegmiua castaneous-browu, the inner area hyaline, which is darker 

 on basal half owing to the reflection of the abdomen beneath ; 

 prouotum coarsely granulose : the lateral processes as seen from 

 above long, broad, obliquely ascendaut, bicarinate, the apices 

 truncate, as viewed in front narrower, with the apices apparently 

 more acute : posterior process at base only moderately raised above 

 the scutellum, centrally and laterally cariuate, the central cari- 

 nation continued through prouotum, its apex slightly passing the 

 posterior angle of the inner margin of the tegmiua, moderately 

 ampliated beneath beyond basal area and impinging on the 

 tegmiua. 



Length 9 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 6 millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon; jNtaskeliyn, Pundaluoya (Green); Haputale, 

 JSTewera Ellya (Jide Melichar). 



21 G9. Centrotus ramosus, sp. n. 



Head and prouotum black; tegmiua piceous ; a small spot at 

 each basal anirle of scutellum and the lateral areas of the sternum 



Fiff. 39. — Ccnti'vius ramosus. 



ochraeeously sericeous ; legs piceous ; pronotum coarsely granu- 

 lose, lateral process as seen from above very long and obliquely 



