70 MEMBKACID^. 



sericeous spot on each side of apex of face before clypeus ; legs 

 castaueous, tlie femora (excluding apices) black ; tegmiua bronzy 

 subh valine, the venation castaneous-brown, brownish ly opaque 

 and coarsely punctate at base ; pronotum finely punctate, the 

 punctures almost hidden under the pilose surface, the lateral 

 angk's subangularly slightly prominent, the posterior process 

 strongly centrally and laterally carinate, the central carination 

 finely continued thi'oiigh pronotum, its apex acute and impinging 

 on the inner margin of tegmina a little beyond its posterior angle; 

 scutellum with a transverse sericeous ochraceous spot on each side 

 of basal margin. 



Length 8 ; breadth pronot, angl. 3 millim. 



Hab. Sookna, 533 feet. 



Division COCCOSTERPHUSARIA. 



In this division there is no complete scutellum ; the mesonotum 

 is armed at the apex with two distinct prolongations, acute or 

 otherwise ; the pronotum behind the lateral angles gradually passes 

 into the posterior process. 



Synopsis of Getiera. 



A. Pronotum tuberculous, the posterior pro- 



cess concavely depressed at base and 



laminately convexly raised at apex .... Coccosterphus, p. 70. 



B. Pronotum not tuberculous, the posterior 



process straight, neither raised nor con- 

 cavely sinuate. 



a. Tegmina with three apical areas ; 



posterior prouotal process short and 



slender Yasa, p. 74. 



b. Tegmina Avith five apical areas ; pos- 



terior pronotal process moderately 



long and broad on basal area ........ Kanada, p. 74. 



Genus COCCOSTERPHUS. 



Coccosterphus, Stal, Hem. Fahr. ii, p. 51 (1869) ; Atkins. J. A. S.B. 

 liv, p. 88 (1885) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 120 (1903). 



Type, C. 7ninutus, Fabr. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion. 



*' Body small, obovate ; head with the eyes equal in breadth to the 

 anterior part of the pronotum, with the eyes deflexed, somewhat 

 transverse, slightly indexed beneath the eyes, front a little elevated, 

 not freely prominent, with the apical margin a little prominent ; 

 ocelli about twice as far apart from each other as from the eyes ; 

 pronotum moderately convex, laterally unarmed, gradually narrowed 

 behind the shghtly prominent lateral angles and gradually passing 

 into the posterior process ; posterior process entire on both sides 

 at base, not sinuate, gradually acuminate, straight, slightly deflexed 

 at apcix, reaching apex of clavus, somewhat highly ridged, much 

 depressed in the middle; no complete scutellum ; mesonotum 



