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CERCOrJD.'E. 



Head nai'rowed and stronj^ly prolonged in front of eyes, cen- 

 trally and lat(>rally carinate above, longer than or as long as pro- 

 notum ; ocelli a little nearer to eyes than to eacli other, more or 

 less upwardly directed ; face more or less transversely striated, 

 centrally longitudinally carinate ; clypeus short, posteriorly 

 rounded ; rostrum almost reaching the posterior coxse ; posterior 

 tibiae armed with two spines ; pronotum sexangular, anteriorly con- 

 vexly rounded, posteriorly angularly emarginate before scutellum ; 

 tegmina apically subacute, their costal margins strongly convex, 

 costal and radial areas broad, the latter dilated near base. 



The strongly produced head is the principal character of this 

 genus. I give Walker's Jutstatus as type of the genus, because 

 Chaleptis antedates Philagra but sinks through the name being 

 preoccupied. 



a. Head longer than pronotum. 



2268. Philagra fusiformis, Walk. (Gyrene) List Horn., Sappl. p. 47 

 (18o8); Atkins. J. A. >S. B. Iv, p. 48 (1886); MelicJi. Wien. 

 Ent.Zeit.x\,Y>. 177 {\dO\). 

 Chalepiis aconophoridcs. Walk. List Horn., Suppl. p. 192 (1858); 

 Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1802, p. 494. 



Body and legs ochraceous ; head, pronotum, and scutellum 

 thickly, shortly, palely pilose ; abdomen shining ochraceous ; 

 tegmina ochraceous with pale irregular scattered fuscous mark- 

 ings ; wings subhyaline with a pale ochraceous tint ; head above 

 strongly tricarinate, about half as long again as pronotum, its 

 apex slightly upwardly recurved ; face strongly centrally carinate, 



Fig. 83. — Phil(/t/ru fus^ijorinis. 



its posterior area transversely striate ; rostrum almost reachiiig the 

 posterior coxa3. 



Var. Darker and more brownish ochraceous in hue, the fuscous 

 markings to the tegmina darker and more numerous. 



1-ength excl. tegm. 10 to 14; exp. tegm. 18 to 27 millim. 



JIah. Sikhim {Indian Man.). Assam; Margherita {CoU. Dist.). 

 Burma ; Euby Mines (Z)o7ier<7/).— North China {Brit. Mus.). 



