CELANTIA. 



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and angulated or spiiied lateral margins of the pronotum, the 

 elytra with the costal area very broad, much wider than the 

 discoidal area, the elytral lateral margins not narrowed posteriorly, 

 elvtral apices oblique and when folded centrally sinuate. 



In this genus I include PhijU. peral-ensis, Dist., and the Ethio- 

 pian P. dilatata, Guer., and allies. 

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~y 902 Ammianus erOSUS, Fieber (Monanthia), Unt. Monogr. p. 74, pi. vi, 

 U ff. 0-9 (1844) ; Walk^ (Tingis) Cat. Bet. y\, p. 181 (1873) ; Dist. 



(Phyllontocbila) A. M. N. S. (7) ix, p. 355 (1902). 



Head and anterior pronotal vesicle 

 grey with some fuscous markings ; 

 anteunte brownish-ochraceous ; prono- 

 tum castaneous, its disk piceous, the 

 basal area of the dilated pronotal 

 margins irrorated with pale hyaline 

 areolets ; elytra with the discoidal and 

 subcostal areas castaneous, opaque, the 

 costal area hyaline; margins of areolets, 

 a broad transverse fascia before middle, 

 and apex piceous, sutural area piceous ; 

 body beneath and legs piceous ; tibiae 

 Fig. \Q(i.— Ammianus erosus. brownish-ochraceous. 



Length 7 millim. 

 Hah. " Ostindien " {Heifer, fide Fieber). Burma ; Bhamo (Fea). 



Genus CELANTIA, uov. 



Type, C. vagans, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head spinous, a long porrect spine arising at base of head and 

 extendiug beyond its apex, a loug curved spine from behind each 

 eye, and a smaller spine near each antenniferous tubercle ; pro- 

 notum with the anterior vesicle or head not extending beyond 

 base of head, sublunate, with its apical margin truncate ; pronotal 

 lateral margins laminate, areolate, pronotal disk tricarinate ; 

 antennae very long, much more than half the length of the body, 

 apical joint about as long as first and second joints together ; 

 elytra with the subcostal area narrow, the discoidal area concave, 

 costal area bi*oad, areolets somewhat large. 



Allied to the Neotropical genus Leptodictija, Stal, from which 

 it differs by the very long antennae, different structure of the 

 pronotum, <tc. 



903. Celantia vagans, Dist. (Leptodictya) Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. xlvii, 

 p. 48 (1903). 



Ovate, the margins of the pronotum and elytra convex ; antennae 

 ochraceous, the apical joint piceous ; head ochraceous ; eyes 

 piceous ; pronotum with the disk castaneous, the hood and carinae 

 ochraceous, lateral marginal areas and posterior area very pale 



