2oS 



KEBUVIID.i;. 



Black ; the four posterior spines to pronotum — two lateral, 



two discal — and their areas, 

 a basal and a transverse 

 discal spot to corium, 

 and spots to conuexivum 

 above and beneath luteous ; 

 legs and anteuDae casta- 

 neous ; first and second 

 joints of rostrum subequal 

 in length ; basal pint of 

 antenna? about as long as 

 head ; anterior lobe of pro- 

 notum strongly sculptured, 

 posterior lobe rugose, with 

 a long lateral spine on each 

 side, and with two shorter 

 erect discal spines between 

 them ; scutellar spine long, 

 obliquely ascending. 



Fig. 178. — Acantha!>pis quinqueS2}inosa. 



Length 15| to 19 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; North Khtisi Hills ( Gliennell), Margherita {Do- 



lierty). Bengal ; Kanchi {Irvine). Bombay (LciiJi), Bor Gchiit 



[Dixon). Ceylon {Green). Bui'ma ; Palon {Feci). 



1085. Acanthaspis xerampilina, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Behj. 1903, 

 p. 57. 



Dull reddish ; eyes, scutelhim excluding apex, clavus excluding 

 base, a large subclaval spot to corium which does not reacli base 

 but posteriorly joins basal angle of membrane and is continued 

 along the greater part of apical margin of corium, membrane, and 

 lateral areas of sternum piceous : pronotum with the lateral angles 

 produced into long acute spines directed backward, and with two 

 long erect spines near the posterior margin, anterior lobe sculp- 

 tured, anterior angles tuberculously prominent, posterior lobe very 

 finely granulate ; scutellar spine long, obliquely erect ; membrane 

 passing apex of abdomen ; head sulcated between eyes ; first and 

 second joints of rostrum subequal in length ; first joint of an- 

 tennie about as long as head. 



Length 10 ; breadth between pronotal angles 64 millim. 



Bah. Burma ( Vvjors). 



h. Leqs witJi dark annulations. 



1086. Acanthaspis sericata, sp. n. 



Ochraceons, sericeous ; head somewhat piceous ; antenna? with 

 the first and second joints brovvnish-ochraceous, remainder fuscous, 

 apex of second and sometimes apical area of first joint fuscous ; 

 pronotum ^vith a piceous spot at base, the lateral angles longly 

 spinous and two long erect discal spines between them ; scutellum 



