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I have not seeu this species. Stal describes it as being allied 

 to A. concinmda, but with the pronotal angles more produced, the 

 posterior pronotal lobe totally tlavescent, scutellar spine longer, 

 with ita apex flavescent ; femora longly fuscous, lineately striate. 



1 110. Acanthaspis lineatipes, Rent. Act. Soc. Sc Fejin. xii, p. 328 (188 1). 



Obscurely fuscous, longl}^ palely pilose ; base of first joint of 

 antennae, a small spot on the postocular area of the head aboAe, the 

 rugosities or carinae of the anterior lobeof pronotum, the posterior 

 lobe, anterior lateral angles and medial sulcation (its anterior 

 portion excepted), apex of scutellum, subcostal vein, fascia con- 

 tinued to a third part from apex, then dilated and internally near 

 membrane hookedly curved, quadrangular spots to connexiA'um, 

 discoidal fascia to abdomen beneath, not reaching apex, prosternal 

 margins, acetabular spots, and legs palely tlavescent ; coxa? and 

 trochanters, longitudinal lines to femora, three annulations to 

 tibiae, and apices of tarsi piceous ; membrane fuscous. 



Length \'2h miilim. 



Hah. Darjeeling. 



I have not seen this species. 



d. I'ronotum darlc, with pcde spots and marlings. 

 a . Legs unicoloroiis. 



1111. Acanthaspis trimaculata, Rput. Her. d'Ent. vi, p. 157 (1887). 



Body, rostrum, antenna^, and legs black or piceous, fuscously 

 pilose ; a large transverse spot, anteriorly medially excised, to 

 posterior lobe of pronotum, and a somewhat round spot behind 

 middle of corium, ochraceous ; a large subapical spot to membrane, 

 with its apex emarginate, white ; testaceous spots to connexivum ; 

 anterior lobe of pronotum a little shorter than posterior lobe, 

 which has its disk unarmed, the posterior lateral angles prominent, 

 shortly dentately produced, their apices suberect ; scutellum 

 totally black, apical spine slightly ascendant ; rostrum with the 

 first joint a little longer than the second ; pronotum with the 

 anterior angles acute, anterior lobe sculptured, posterior lobe with 

 its disk transversely rugulose. 



Length, 2, 21^ miilim. 



Hah. "Northern India"' (Coll. Si</noret). Bombay (Leith); 

 Bor Ghcit (Divon). 



h'. Legs annulated. 

 «'". Corium spotted. 



1112. Acanthaspis rama, sp. n. 



Black ; postei'ior lobe of pronotum with two rounded basal spots, 

 corium with a small basal spot and a larger rounded subapical 

 spot, spots to connexivum above and beneath, apices of femora, 

 two broad annulations to tibiae, and the tarsi luteous ; first aiid 



