48 MEMBEACID.i:. 



asceudaut, the apical areas considerably widened and slightly 

 recurved, tricarinate, the cariuations transversely connected before 

 apex ^A■hich is truncate, as viewed in front narrower but the apex 

 broad with the edges recurved ; posterior process well separated 

 from the scutellum, beyond which it is ampliated beneath and 

 impinges on the tegmina, tricarinate, the central carination hnely 

 continued on pronotum, the apex passing the posterior angle of 

 the inner margin of tegmina ; tegmina witii a small pale spot near 

 apex of claval area and narrowly bhick and punctate at base. 



Length 8; breadth lat. pronot. process. 7 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; TJdagama (CoZZ. i>is^.), 



iilTO. CentrotllS angustulus, Melich. Horn. Fmm. Cexjlon, p. 112 (1903). 



" Small and slender, similar to cupvms^ but nearer granidatus 

 in the form and position of the lateral pronotal projections ; 

 whole body rusty-brown, face and pronotum thickly punctate and 

 sparingly greyishly hirsute; in middle of pronotum a longitudinal 

 keel produced on posterior process ; lateral processes directed more 

 upward and forward, at base rather broad, tip slightly narrowed, 

 at end almost straightly truncated, front corners rounded oft', 

 hinder forming a sharp corner, provided above with a keel which 

 runs into the sharp corner, beneath wiih two truncated longitu- 

 dinal keels, the front corner of lateral processes somewhat sharp- 

 ened ; posterior process naiTow, prismatic, distinctly Mave-like, 

 curved, at base of scutellum somewhat standing away, directed 

 downward ; tegmina rusty-brown, punctured at base and on costal 

 margin ; wings hyaline, strongly shining ; scutellum longish, tri- 

 angular, not tomentose ; pectus yellowish-white, thickly tomentose ; 

 abdomen rusty-brown, sparingly haired with greyish-white on the 

 belly ; legs rusty-yellow, claws dark." {Mclichar.) 



" Length $ 5 millim." 



Hob. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya. 



I have not seen this species. 



B. Anterior lateral pronotal processes neither oblique nor ascendant. 



2171. Centrotus transversus, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, body beneath and legs black ; a spot at each 

 basal augle of scutellum and the anterior lateral areas of the 

 sternum ochraceously sericeous ; legs ochraceous ; tegmina dark 

 castaneous-browu ; pronotum coarsely grauulose ; the lateral pro- 

 cesses as seen from above broad, horizontally extended, bicarinate, 

 the anterior carination more or less imperfect, the apices broadly 

 truncate, their anterior angle rounded, their posterior angle obtusely 

 acute, as viewed in front apparently very much narrower ; posterior 

 process robust, tricarinate, the central carination continued through 

 })ronotum, distinctly separated from scutellum, where and for a 

 short distance beyond which it is ampliated beneath and then 

 gradually narrowed to apex, which is acute and passes the posterior 



