GALEATCS. 131 



</. Hemelvtra with costal area 

 abruptly divided and laminately 



deflected Beedexbachits, p. 139. 



h' . Hemelyti-a with the costal area 



normal Cysteochila, p. 138. 



i Pronotal hood not coTering base of 

 head. 

 a. Body strongly spinous ; margins of 



pronotum not dilated AvHERrs, p. 140. 



h. Body not spinous : margins of pro- 

 notum strongly and globosely pro- 

 duced Elasmogxathx's, p. 141. 



e. Pronotal hood present or absent, when 

 present not extending over ba,?e of 

 head : antennae stout : costal and sub- 

 costal areas usually very narrow and 



uniseriate TELEOXEixiA, p. 142. 



B. Subcostal area of hemelytra forming a 



distinct angle behind discoidal area .... Moxasthia, p. 144. 



Genus GALEATUS. 



Galeatus, Curtv!. Entom. Mag. 1833, p. 196: Stal. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. 



Fork. 1874, n. 3. p. 48 : id. En. Kern. iii. p. 118 (1873). 

 Tingis, part., Fleb. Eur. Kern. pp. 36, 128 (1861). 



Type. G. spinifrfjns. Fall., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic and Oriental Eegions. 



Lateral margins of the pronotum strongly and laminately pro- 

 duced and largely cellular, ante- 

 riorly produced in a globose vesicle 

 or hood which hides the head, 

 anterior disk with three carinae, 

 posteriorly conchately produced ; 

 head somewhat longly spinous in 

 front : elytra vitreous, verv much 

 longer than abdomen, strons^ly ele- 

 vated on basal disk, the costal area 

 with single areolets, the discoidal 

 area with the areolets duplicated : 

 antennae and legs Ions and slender. 



^ S94. Galeatus darthula, EirJc. J. 

 Bombay S. H. Soc. xiv. p. 297 

 (1902). 



Head, pronotum, sternum and 



legs very pale castaneous ; abdo- 



Fig. 94. — Gah:otu.< darfhula. men dark castaneous : elvtra and 



pronotal lateral dilated margins 



pale talc-like, the margins of the areolets piceous. a pale castaneous 



macular suffusion on the disk of each elvtron. where it is gibbous ; 



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