TRICENXRUS. 



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base piceous aud witli a prominent brown spot at apex and near 

 posterior angle of inner margin ; pronotal lateral processes as seen 



Fig. 45. — Anchoii f/irvis. 



fromabove broad, somew hat flat, tlieir apices much as in A. rcctangu- 

 latuin ■ posterior processes very short, curved, not extending beyond 

 apex of clavus. 



Length 5; breadth lat. pronot. process. 8| milhm. 



Hah. Cevlon; Anuradhapura ((rrmi). 



The short posterior pronotal process sufficiently distinguishes 

 this species. 



Genus TRICENTRUS. 



Triceutrus, StSl,Hem.. Afr.iv, p. 89 (18G6) ; id. Of v. VeL-Ak. Fiirh. 



1869, p. 2s:3 ; id. torn. cit. 1870, p. 7:"!8. 

 Taloipa, BucU. Trans. Liim. Soc. Land, is, p. 334 (190o). 



Tvpe, T. coHvcrgens, Walk., from the Philippines. 



Distrlhvtion. Oriental, Malayan, and Australasian Eegions. 



Body ovate or oblong-ovate ; pronotum with posterior process 

 longer than broad, the lateral angles prominent or cornuted, the 

 posterior process moderately short, not remote from scutellum ; 

 posterior trochanters inwardly armed with spinules ; tegmina 

 somewhat short and broad, apical areas five ; wings with three 

 apical areas ; scutellum about equally broad as long. 



Stal relied largely on the inwardly spinulose posterior trochanters, 

 which is a good but somewhat difficult or obscure character to always 

 distinguish. 



A. ITeacl and pronotum black. 



2178. TricentniS gibbosulus, Walh. (Centrotus) Ins. Saund., Horn. 

 p. 80 (1858) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. Iv, p. 198 (1880). 



Head, pronotum, body beneath and legs piceous, somewhat 

 thickly and \ ery finely pilose ; tibiaj, tarsi and apices of femora 

 testaceous ; tegmina pale bronzy-brown, base pieeous-black ; lateral 

 pronotal processes as seen from above short, broad, slightly up- 

 turned, the anterior margin rounded, the posterior margin 

 obliquely straight, apex obtusely acute and slightly recurved, 

 rather indistinctly carinate behind middle, as viewed in front 



