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towards the apex: tegmina fuscous-ferruginous or ferruginous-grey, 
punctured at the base (Stal). 
Reported from Tranquebar, India. 
Genus Leprocentrus, Stal. 
Hem. Afric. iv. p. 87, 90 (1866): Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. p. 281 (1869). 
Frons more or less prominulous downwards: thorax cornuted above 
the lateral angles ; posterior process, slender, three-cornered, acute, emit- 
ted a little before the posterior margin of the thorax, altogether distant 
from scutellum and abdomen, not unless posteriorly touching the inte- 
rior margin of the tegmina, not sinuated beneath nor amplified in the 
middle: scutellum emarginate at the apex, moderate : tegmina with five 
apical, two discoidal areas, none of them petiolated: wings with four 
apical areas: tibize simple. 
16. Leprocentrus Taurus, Fabricius. 
Membracis taurus, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 676 (1775) : Spec. Ins. ii. p. 317 (1781) : 
Mant. Ins. ii. p. 244 (1787) : Hunt. Syst. iv. p. 14 (1794) ; Olivier, Enc. Méth. vii. p. 
665 (1792). 
Membracis rupicapra, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt. p. 514 (1798). 
Centrotus rupicapra, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 18 (1803). 
Centrotus tawrus, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 20 (1803); Germar, Mag. iv. p. 32 
(1821) ; Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. p. 257 (1835): Fairmaire, A. 8. H. F. (2 sér.) iv. p. 510 
(1846) ; Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii. p. 602 (1851) ; ibid. Suppt. p. 158 (1858) ; 
J. Linn. S. Zool. i. p. 93 (1856) ; ibid. p. 163 (1857). 
Membracis tricornis,, Hardwicke, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 114, t. Suppt. 30, fig. c. d. f. 
(1828). 
Centrotus terminalis, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii. p. 604 (1851). 
Centrotus vicarius, Walker, 1. c. p. 605 (1851). 
Leptocentrus tawrus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. p. 491 (1862); Berlin Ent. 
Zeitsch. x. p. 386 (1866): Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 50 (1869). 
Fairmaire makes M. tricornis, Hardwicke, a synonym for ZL. tawrus, 
Fabr., to which Walker adds his own C. vicarius and C. terminalis, and 
Stal adds C. rupicapra, Fabr. 
Head fuscous, eyes castaneous, a white spot before the eyes : thorax 
fuscous with two stout horns, a little arched, produced posteriorly, fili- 
form: sides of pectus white : wings obscure: body fuscous (M. tawrus, 
Fabr.). Body small, fuscous; thorax with three horns, the lateral 
thicker, obtuse or rather truncate, subdentate ; the intermediate, poste- 
rior, recurved: tegmina fuscous hyaline; wings whitish (M. rupicapra, 
Fabr.). Fairmaire remarks that C. tawrus is black with the scutellum 
and sides of the pectus white and the tegmina with the costa fuscous. 
Hardwicke describes his M. tricornis as head, thorax, and hody black ; 
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