AXAXANDEA. 321 



slightly wrinkled, impuuctate, somewhat pointed iu front, with the 

 central lobe longer than the lateral ; pronotum yellowish-green in 

 front, reddish behind, coarsely and rather thickly punctured with 

 black, with the exception of a ti'ansverse band near the anterior 

 margin ; lateral angles produced into strong, deep crimson spines, 

 with their apices obtuse ; scutellum coarsely but sparingly punc- 

 tured with black, and with a reddish-brown triangular mark in the 

 centre of the base ; corium reddish internally, the outer mai'gin and 

 the greater portion of the apex yellowish-green, the whole surface 

 thickly and strongly punctured with black and somewhat rugose ; 

 membrane brownisli transparent : body beneath yellow, shining ; 

 abdomen impuuctate with a strong central keel ; sexual organs 

 much developed, lateral process bright red, inner pieces flattened, 

 yellow, widened and emarginate at the tip, which is black ; legs 

 greenish-testaceous, the tarsi dusky ; apex of rostrum black ; 

 antennae with the basal joint greenish-testaceous, remaining joints 

 brown, becoming darker towards apex. 



Length 14g millim. 



Hah. North India {Boys, Brit. Mus.). 



522, Sastragala hinotata, Did. Tr. E. S. 1887, p. 3o3, pi. xii, f. 12. 



Body above brownish-ochraceous, darkly punctate ; corium with 

 the lateral margins, widened into a spot at centre, dull ochraceous, 

 inwardly shaded with blackish ; membrane of a bronzy hue : head 

 transversely wrinkled; antennae ochraceous, third joint much longer 

 than the second (remainder mutilated in specimen described) ; 

 pronotum and scutellum sparingly and coarsely punctate, the 

 corium more thickly and finely punctate ; pronotum with the 

 lateral angles produced into long, somewhat conical spines, their 

 a,pices subacute and very slightly reflexed backwards : body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous ; rostrum reaching the third abdominal 

 segment, its apex piceous ; lateral lobes of the head a little longer 

 than the central lobe. 



Length 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles 10 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Coll. Dist.). Burma ; Ruby Mines {Doherty). 



Genus ANAXANDRA. 

 Anaxandra, Stal, En. Hem. x, p. 110 (1870). 



Type, yi. rufescens, Dall. 



Distribution. India. 



Mesosternal rid^e long, extending considerably beyond the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum, with its apical portion prominent 

 and gradually nari'owed or acuminate ; lateral angles of the pro- 

 notum strongly produced, the lateral processes directed a little 

 forward and upward ; apical angles of sixth abdominal segment in 

 male somewhat obtuse. 



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