MINCOPIUS. 



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about as broad as long, slightly ampliately rounded towards 

 clypeus, its margins carinate, its disk somewhat transversely 



Fig. '^\.—Xaraijana frt/cri. 



wrinkled, dull ochraoeous, with brownish markings ; clypeus 

 brownish; inner tegminal margins concavely sinuate. 



Length inch tegm. 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Maha Illupalauia (./. C. F. Fnjer). 



Genus MINCOPIUS. (To follow Nilaloiiita, Vol. III. p. 358.) 

 Mincopius, Dist. A. M. X. H. (8) iv, p. 81 (1909). 



Type, M. andamanensis, Dist. 



Distribution. Andaman Islands. 



Head (including eyes) distinctly narrower than pronotum ; 

 vertex subquadrate, foveately depressed, the lateral margins 

 ridged, the apex truncate ; I'ace about twice as long as broad, 

 tricarinate, the central carination straight and robust, the lateral 

 ones curved and not quite reaching base, basal margin angularly 

 sinuate, posterior margin rounded before clypeus which is broad 

 and not carinate ; pronotum moderately short, transverse, ante- 

 riorly subconically produced between the eyes, basal margin 

 truncate, the posterior lateral angles slightly rounded ; meso- 

 notum longer than pronotum, broadly trianguftir, centrally finely 

 carinate ; rostrum almost reaching the posterior coxte ; legs 

 moderately long, posterior tibiae with two spines, anterior tibi» 

 distinctly compressed and dilated ; tegmina convexly oblique, a 

 little longer than the abdomen, the costal margin a little con- 

 cavely sinuate near middle, radial vein bifurcating at a short 

 distance from base, upper longitudinal vein bifurcating slightly 

 further on; the apical halves of tegmina possess numerous 

 transverse veins, giving a subreticulate appearance. 



