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Genus THABENOIDES, iiov. 



Type, T. alhinotatus, Dist. 



Distribution. South India. 



Vertex a little longer than broad, moderately ampliate towards 

 apex, tlie anterior lateral angles subacutely prominent, as is also 

 the middle of the apical margin, the lateral margins strongly 

 ridged ; face considerably longer than broad, the anterior margin 

 subtruncate, strongly centrally carinate, the lateral margins also 

 carinate and slightly straightly oblique, inwardly recurved a little 

 before clypeas which is moderately globose and centrally carinate ; 

 pi'onotum shorter than mesonotum or head, the anterior margin 

 convexly produced, posterior margin subtruncate, centrally 

 strongly carinate; mesonotum v\ith an oblique carination on each 

 lateral area ; tegmina broad, marginally ovale, deflected in a sub- 

 con vexly oblique position to the body, broadly rounded at apices, 

 costal membrajieand radial area about equally broad, interior ulnar 

 vein furcate near middle, the whole surface more or less trans- 

 versely veined ; posterior tibipe with two spines. 



Allied to Thabena, Stal ; pronotum anteriorly convexly not 

 acutely pi'oduced, anterior margin of face subtruncate ; venation 

 of tegmina different. 



3251. Thabenoides albinotatus, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum and mesonotum more or less chocolate-brown ; 

 mesonotum with the lateral striations ochraceous ; body beneath 

 and legs chocolate-brown, femoral apices, anuulations to anterior 

 and intermediate tibise, and the posterior tibiae ochraceous ; 



Fig. 68. — Thahowides albinotatus. 



tegmina chocolate-brown, the apical areas more brownish 

 ochraceous, a large ill-defined spot on each marginal area before 

 middle dull greyish white ; face with the margins, central cari- 

 nation, central and apical spots, and a central fascia and basal 

 spots to clypeus, dull ochraceous ; structural characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Length inch tegm. 5 millim. 



Hah. South India ; Kodaikanal {T. V. Campbell). 



