PHYLLONTOCHILA, 



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longer than first and second together ; rostrum mutilated in speci- 

 men described ; pronotum tricarinate, the lateral margins broadly 

 and a little upwardly laminate and areolate, their margins rounded, 

 posteriorly longly and angularly produced ; elytra strongly rounded 

 and widened from base, apical area broader than basal area, discoidal 

 area strongly defined, the areolets small and somewhat opaque, sub- 

 costal and costal areas not definable, the areolets larger and more 

 hyaline, a character which also applies to the suturai area. 



Fig. 98. 

 Collinutiv.s alicollis. 



899. Collinutius alicollis, Walk. (Tingis) 

 Cat. Het. vi, p. 182 (1873); Dist. 

 (Phvllontochila) A. M. N. H. (7) ix, 

 p. 3'o4 (1902). 



Vei'v pale ochraceous ; disk of pro- 

 notum, the abdomen, a transverse fascia 

 crossing elytra near base from costa to 

 margin of discoidal area, fuscous ; dis- 

 coidal and suturai elytral areas tinged 

 wath fuscous ; apical joint of antennae 

 (excluding base) piceous. 



Length 5| millim. 



Hah. " Hindostan " {Brit. Mus.). 



The unique type of this genus and 

 species is unfortunately in a somewhat 

 poor condition. 



Genus PHYLLONTOCHILA. 



Monanthia, subg. Pyllontocheila, Fieber, Ent. Monoyr. p. 59 



(1844). 

 Monanthia (part.), Fieher. Eur. Hem. pp. 36 & 119 (1861). 

 Phyllontochila (part.), Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 120 (1873J. 

 Platvchila, Fieher, in litt. ; Futon, Spiops. 1870, p. 107. 

 Subg. Tingis, Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 180 (1873). 

 Subg. Elasmotropis, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1874, no. 3, p. 54. 

 Sakuntala, Kirk. J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv, p. 298 (1902). 



Type, P. ampliata, Fieb., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian 

 Regions. 



Head anteriorly trispinous : pronotal vesicle or hood not ex- 

 tending over base of head ; lateral margins of pronotum more or 

 less dilated, its disk tricarinate : elytra with the discoidal area 

 about as wide as the costal area or occasionally slightly narrower, 

 elytral lateral margins shghtly narrowed posteriorly towards apex, 

 apices rounded, when folded almost truncate ; antennae moderately 

 long, first and second joints incrassate, first joint longer than 

 second. 



