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two more oblique ; pronotum black, thickly punctate, the basal 

 area more castaneous antl more sparingly blackly punctate, three 

 central longitudinal fascite continuous with those ou head and the 

 lateral margins stramineous, on each lateral area near posterior 

 angles a short testaceous oblique line ; scutellum black, coarsely 

 punctate, a central straight fasciate line and the lateral marrrins 

 stramineous ; cerium black, somewhat coarsely punctate, the costal 

 area and apical margin more or less stramineous, the disk with 

 pale castaneous suffusions ; membrane black, its apical maro-in 

 pale brownish ; liead beneath and sternum black, with a sublateral 

 stramineous fascia ou each side ; abdomen beneath stran)ineous, 

 with four longitudinal black maculate fascia^, two central and two 

 lateral, all more or less outwardly suif used with castaneous ; le^-s 

 black longirudinally streaked with stramineous ; antennze black, 

 second joint and base of third joint testaceous ; rostrum black, 

 reaching the posterior coxae. 



Length 8^ millim. 



Hah. Bombay ; Bor Ghat {Dixon). 



Dallas described this species with doubt as from " Africa ? ". 



Genus HIPPOTISCUS to replace Hippota. (Vol. I, p. 131.) 



Plexippus, Stal, Ofr. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1867, p. 50o (nom. prajocc). 

 Hippota, Berc/r. Rev. cVEnt. x, p. 214 (1891) (nom. prEeocc). 

 Hippotiscus, Berffr. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxv, p. 2 (1900), n. uom. 



Bergroth proposed the name Hippota to supersede the pre- 

 occupied Plexippus, a course followed in this enumeration. Since 

 then Bergroth has discovered that his new name Mas also pre- 

 occupied and has now substituted that of Hip)potiscus. This will 

 therefore have to be used. 



Genus ONCINOPROCTUS. 



Oncinoproctus, Bredd. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxiii, p. 5 (1904). 



Type, 0. griseohis, Bredd. 



Distribution. N. India. 



Body short, broad, subovate ; head much shorter than the 

 pronotum, the lateral and central lobes nearly equally long, ocelli 

 about three times as wide apart from each other as from eyes ; 

 nead and anterior area of pronotum vertically depressed ; 

 rostrum slightly passing the posterior coxae, first joint reaching 

 base of head, second joint longest ; antennae apparently of five 

 joints, but the fifth is mutilated in my specimen, first joint not 

 reaching apex of head, second and third joints almost equally long ; 

 pronotum between the lateral angles more than three times as 

 broad as long, strongly deflected on antei-ior half, the lateral angles 

 strongly produced, convex above, apically concave beneath, their 

 apices truncate, the anterior angles acuminate behind and outside 

 eyes, posterior margin concave, broader than base of scutellum ; 

 scutellum almost as long as broad at base, shorter than corium, the 



