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APPENDIX . — EEDU A"I1D.1\ 



1^966, Acanthaspis boml)ayensis, Bist. Ann. Soc. Ent. liehj. liii, 

 p. 306 (1909). 



Black ; antennte, a discal longitudinal stripe on each side oi 

 bead at inner margins of eyes and a small quadrate spot at base, 

 postei'ior lobe of ])ronotuin (excluding its anterior margin), a large 

 spot to coriuui behind middle, spots to connexivum, rostrum, and 

 legs ochraceous ; bases and apices of femora more or less black 

 (in the typical specimen the left anterior femur is almost wholly 

 black) ; first joint of autennse longly passing apex of head but 

 shorter than the second joint ; rostrum robust, basal joint reaching 

 eyes ; pronotum with the anterior lobe sculptured and greyisbly 

 pilose, the anterior angles very sliortly conioally prominent, the 

 posterior lobe somewhat transversely rugulose, tlie posterior 

 lateral angles shortly spinously produced, the spines directed 

 backward ; scutellum witli a long obliquely erect spine the apex 

 of which is ochraceous ; membrane reaching the abdominal apex : 

 body beneath and legs longly greyisbly pilose ; the spongy furrow 

 on the anterior tibiae a little more tliau one-third their length. 



Length 13 millim. 



Bah. Bombay Prov. ; Igatpuri, W. Ghats. 



Allied to A. concinnida, Stfil. 



To follow A. concinmda (vol. ii, p. 267). 



Acanthaspis maculata, Dist. (Velitea). (Vol. II, p. 277.) 



When I originally described this species it was from a carded 

 specimen from Calcutta sent to me by the late Mr. Atkinson. 



Fig. 110. — Acan/hasp/s maculata. 



From an examination of this example it appeared to have the 

 disk of the abdomen beneath distinctly flattened and I thus 

 placed it in the genus Velitra. Since that time I have received 



