OTINOTUS. 



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Length 5; breadth lat. pronot, process 3 millim. 



Ilah. Nilgiri Hills (7'. V. Gamphell). 



Allied to 0. rufesoem, Dist. (vol. iv, p. 40), bat differing by the 

 considerably shorter aud more t'orwardly and u[)\vardly directed 

 anterior pronotal angles, the more elevated basal portion of the 

 posterior pronotal process, &c. 



Otixotus kakexianus, 11. 110111. Uist. A. M. X. II. (8) vol. xiv, 

 p. 332 (1914). 



Otinotus pallipes (Vol. IV, p. 40), uoin. praeocc. 



Ceiitrotus iKillipcx., Walk., from New Guinea proves to be an 

 Otinotus. 



3355. Otinotus albomaculatus. 



Head and pronotnni black ; scutellum black with a prominent 

 white spot in each basal angle ; steruam black with lateral white 

 spots ; legs pale castaneous. apices of the tibiae and the tarsi more 

 or less black ; tegniina shining ochraceous, basal angle black 

 followed b}^ a prominent rounded white spot, the costal margin 

 narrowly black ; pi'onotiim coarsely punctate, strongly centrally 

 longitudinally ridged, the lateral angles somewhat short with their 

 apices subacute and a little directed backwardl}^ posterior process 

 slender, tricariiiate, sinuate, a little elevateiy separated from the 

 scutellum, but not elevated above the tegmiaa, nor passing the 

 posterior angle of inner tegmiual margin. 



Length o.j millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {T. V. Camphell). 



3356. Otinotus mimicus, sp. n. 



Head aud pronotuin dark castaneous brown ; sr-utellum dark 

 castaneous brown with a large and prominent white spot in each 

 basal angle ; sternum laterally with confluent x^hite spots ; legs 

 castaneous, apices of the tibia) and tarsi more or less black ; 



Fig. 117. — Otinotus viiiiiicus. 



tegniina pale shining ochraceous, basal area black, apically con- 

 taining a large rounded white spot, the costal and inner apical 

 margins narrowly black ; pronotum thickly strongly punctate, 

 centrally longitudinally ridged, the lateral angles laterally produced, 

 their apices distinctly moderately recurved ; posterior ])rocess 



