166 APP£NJ)IX. — MEMBRACIDJE. 



the description of my species based on the unique type from the 

 Nilgiri Hills, which was, I now see, discoloured so far as the legs 

 are concerned. Legs not black, but femora black, extreme apices 

 and the tibia? and tarsi castaneous or dark ochraceous, apices of 

 the tarsi black ; in some specimens the head and pronotum are 

 bronzv-brown, in others black, as described in type. 



Length 4| to G ; breadth lat. prouot. process. 3 to 3| millim. 



Teicentrus albomacdlatus, (Vol. IT, p, 56.) 

 Add : Hah. S. India ; Marikuppam {Ind. Mus.). 



3367. Tricentrus allabens, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum black ; face somewhat thickly ochraceously 

 pilose, posterior pronotal process with the upper surface of the 

 apical area dull castaneous ; legs ochraceous, the trochanters 

 black ; lateral areas of the sternum whitely tomentose ; tegmina 

 subhyaline, wrinkled, reflecting the dark abdomen beneath, the 

 venation fuscous, the basal area black, immediately followed by 



Fig. 122. — Trkcntrits allabens. 



a white transverse fascia ; pronotum thickly, rather coarsely 

 punctate, the lateral angles slender, recurved, their apices acute, 

 centrally, longitudinally, percurrently carinate, posterior process 

 tricarinate, the apex acute, slightly passing the posterior angle 

 of the inner tegminal margin. 



Leno-th 5-6 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 3 millim. 



Hab. E. Himalayas ; Kurseong, 4700-5000 ft. (iV. Annandale). 



Allied to T. suhcmr/idatus, Uist., and T. alhomacidatus, Dist., 

 but differing from both by the long, slender, recurved pronotal 

 angles. 



3368. Tricentrus pronus, sp. u. 



Head, pronotum, and legs black, the tarsi ochraceous ; tegmina 

 dark ochraceous, the basal angular area black, which is sometimes 

 outwardly margined by two obscure pale ochraceous spots; 

 pronotum thickly finely punctate, centrally, percurrently, longi- 

 tudinally carinate, the lateral angles somewhat wide, compressed, 

 horizontally produced, their apices moderately angularly recurved, 

 posterior pronotal process tricarinate, its apex acute, scarcely 



