PLATYRETUS. 



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Genus PLATYRETUS. 



Platpetus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 174 (1903). 



Type, P. tnarginatus, Melich. 



Distribution. Oriental, Australasian and Ethiopian Regions. 



Vertex somewhat short, broad and spatulate, lateral margins 

 almost in a line with the outer margins of the eyes, conically 

 rounded in front, ocelli placed near the apical mai'gin of the head, 

 a narrow central longitudinal carinate line, the diisk depressed a 

 little beyond base ; face attenuated, cheeks broad : pronotum longer 

 than the vertex, convex, depressed on each side, the anterior 

 margin transverse and produced to between the eyes, centrally 

 longitudinally carinate, the posterior margin slightlj' concavely 

 sinuate ; scutellum large, broad, about as long as the pronotum, 

 subtriangular, transversely impressed before apical area and with 

 a central carinate line ; tegmina very much longer than abdomen, 

 the costal margin a little arched to beyond middle, then slightly 

 obliquely nai-rowed inwardly to apex, apical cells four, two trans- 

 verse veins on costal area before apex ; legs somewhat slender, all 

 the tibiae finely spiuulose. 



2537. Platyretus marginatus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceijlon, p. 174 

 (1903). 



Above chocolate-brown, beneath with legs stramineous ; vertex 

 with three greyish spots on anterior margin, the central spot 

 smallest, three greyish spots on ba'^al margin, the central one 



Fig. 184. — 'Platyretus viarginatus. 



transverse, the other two partly enclosing a dark centre, and a 

 central longitudinal pale line ; pronotum with slightly paler 

 wrinkles, a central pale longitudinal line, and \A-ith some obscure 



