480 



rULGOBlD.E 



loDg, all the joints cylindrical ; pronotum tricarinate, the lateral 

 oarinations outwardly curved; uiesonotum ti-icarinate ; tegmina 

 shortened and parclniieut-like, or developed, inenibranous, longly 

 passing abdominal apex, and hyaline, veins set with black granules ; 

 legs long, anterior tibia) somewhat laterally compressed, posterior 

 tibia? with two spines."' (Meliehar.) 



2085. Dicranotropis nigropunctatus, ilfoifsc/j. (Mestus?) Bidl. Soc 

 Nat. Mosc. xxxvi (8) p. 112 (1863) ; Melich. (Dicranotropis) 

 Horn. Faun, Ceylon, p. 160, t. iii, f. 12, a (1903). 



" Subovate, shining, sordidly fusco-testaceous, variegated with 

 black ; tegmina subhyaline testaceous, with oblique black humeral 

 spots and with the veins much punctured with black to apices ; 



Fig. 26;"). — Dicra nofnqns n /yroji/oirfa/iis. 



head and thorax as in Mestus testaceus, Motsch. ; tegmina shorter 

 than the body, their apices roundly truncate ; the four anterior 

 tibiae black, depressed, subdilated ; antennse with the second joint 

 thi'ee times longer than the first." (Motschouhli/.) 

 " Length I liu. ; lat. elytr. post. ^ lin.'' 

 Hah. Ceylon ; Pataunas Mts. (Jide Motsclioidslcy). 

 I do not know this species, and have copied the diagnosis of 

 Motschoulsky and the figure of Meliehar. 



Genus LIBURNIA. 



Liburnia, Stal, Hem.Afr. iv, p. 179 (1866) ; Fieb. Cic. Rev. 8)- Mag. 

 Zool. (3) iii, p. 376 (1875); Melich. Mitt.-Europ. Cicad. p. 69 

 (1896); id. Horn. Fatm. Ceylon, p. 97 (1903). 



Type, L. {Embolophora) monoceros, Stal, an Ethiopian species. 

 Distribution. Probably universal. 



I have not received a single species of this genus from British 

 India, and find it impossible to give the generic characters for the 



