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Genus CENTRUCHUS. 



Centruchus, Stal, Hetn. Afr. iv, p. 93 (1866). 



Type, C. fuscijMnnis, Germ., nn African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Regions. 



Pronotum with the disk moderately raised and rounded in 

 front, the lateral angles short but prominent and more or less 

 horizontally directed, the posterior process moderately robust, 

 strougl}^ tricarinate, not remote from seutellum and impinging on 

 tegmina, apex acute and usually passing the posterior angle of the 

 inner tegminal margin. 



Closely allied to Tricentriis. so much so, that till I saw the 

 African type of CentnicJius I included two Indian species in 

 the ^ former genus. Centruchus cannot be regarded as a very 

 distinct genus. 



Cenxruciius cuneatus. 



Tricentrua cuneatus, Di.^t. Fann. Brit. Tiid., Rhynch. vol. iv, p. 56, 

 tig. 49 (1907). 



Centeuchus decoeatps. 



Tricentrus decoratus, Dist. Imm. Brit. Lid., Bhynch. vol. iv, p. 58, 

 %. 50 (1907). 



3371. Centruchus mutilus, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum bluish black ; legs blackish, palely pilose, 

 apices of femora testaceous ; tegmina pale bronzy, extreme basal 

 angular area blackish ; legs purplish red ; pronotum thickly 

 coarsely punctate, centrally, longitudinally and percurrently 

 carinate, the lateral angles very short and recurved, their apices 



Fig. 123. — Centruchus mutilus. 



subacute, posterior process robust, strongly tricarinate, its apex 

 subacute and reaching the posterior angle of the inner tegminal 

 margin. 



Length 7 ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 4 millim. 



Hah. Burma; Maymyo {H. L. Andrewes). 



In structure allied to C. decoratus, Dist. 



