A>'CHOy. 



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angle of the inner margin of tegmiua ; tegmina a little darker at 

 base and on costal area, A\here they are obscurely punctate ; legs 

 sparingly ochraceously pilose. 



Length 10 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 8 milliin. 



Ilah. Assam ; Margherita {^Coll. Dist.). 



Genus ANCHON. 



Anchon, BiicJd. Monor/r. Membrac. p. 214 (1903). 

 Platybelus, Stal (part.), aa, Hetn. Aft: iv, p. 96 (1866), 



Type, A. nodicorms, Pairni., a South-African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Regions. 



Pront \\ell bent outwardly, the apex not prominent ; pronotum 

 above lateral angles produced into strong processes directed 

 obliquely upward and at apices strongly recurved, posterior process 

 rising obliquely direct near base of pronotum and then rectangu- 

 larly directed to about or beyond the posterior angle of the inner 

 margin of the tegmina ; scutellum about as broad as long ; tegmina 

 with iive apical areas (as computed by StSl)*; wings with three 

 apical areas ; tibiae simple. 



Accoi'ding to Buckton : '' This genus may be chiefly distinguished 

 by the almost rectangular attachment of the posterior border of 

 the pronotum to the short upright process springing from the 

 dorsum. This is carried horizontally and quite tree from the 

 scutellum. The suprahumerals are rather A^aried in form, some 

 being clavate and others being more arcuate in shape." 



The genus Anchon, in fact, really represents iStal's section aa 

 of his genus Flatyhelus (Hem. Afr. iv, p. 96). 



2172. Anchon pilosam, Walk. (Centrotus) List Horn, ii, p. 606 (1851) ; 

 Stal (Xiphopceus), Ofc. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1869. p. 285; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. B. liv,p. 8.3 (1885) ; Melic/i. (part.) (Platybelus) Horn. 

 Faun. Ceylon, p. 119 (1903). 



Head and pronotum brownish-testaceous, strongly greyishly 



Fig. 40. — Anchon 2)ilosum. 



pilose, posterior pronotal process from near base pale ochraceous 

 with the apex black ; body beneath thickly greyishly pilose ; legs 



* This is an uncertain cbaracter owing to the different methods of com- 

 putation used by describers. 



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