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ochraceous, mottled and spotted with brownish ; sublateral mar- 

 gins of the sternum bronzy. Eostrum ochraceous, with its apex 

 pitchy and passing the posterior coxae. Antennae mutilated. Long. 

 17 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 8 mm. 



Hab. Sikkim (coll. Dist.). 



Placosternum cervus, n. s. 



Allied to P. taurus by the lateral angles of the pronotum being 

 profoundly bisinuated at their apices, but smaller than that 

 species, and having the lateral angles very much more developed, 

 they being broadly and strongly produced upwardly and forwardly, 

 and deeply notched at each edge of the apex. The lateral angles 

 of the pronotum are not simply crenulate, but shortly spinous. 

 Long. 19 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 17 mm. 



Hab. Assam ; Sadia, 350 ft. (Chenncll) — coll. Dist. 



ACANTHOSOMIN^. 



Sastragala rufispina, n. s. 

 Body above dark ochraceous, pronotal angles purplish red. Head 

 finely and transversely wrinkled, apical portion of the central lobe 

 excavated and foveate (antennae mutilated). Pronotum, Scutellaria, 

 and corium somewhat sparingly and coarsely punctate. Pronotum 

 with the lateral angles produced into obtusely pointed spines. 

 Membrane pale hyaline, blackish at base. Body beneath very 

 pale ochraceous, legs a little darker in hue ; rostrum with the apex 

 pitchy and reaching the second abdominal segment, last abdominal 

 segment with two small black spots at apex. Pronotal spines red 

 beneath as above. Long. 17 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 11 mm. 



Hab. North India (sic). Col. Buckley (coll. Dist.). 



Sastragala mustclina, n. s. 

 Body above ochraceous, membrane pale brownish, conncxivum 

 with the segmental spines black. Antennae ochraceous, apical half 

 of the third joint infuscated; third joint much longer than second 

 (remainder mutilated) ; head somewhat obscurely transversely 

 wrinkled, eyes pitchy. Pronotum, scutellum, and corium coarsely 

 punctate. Pronotum with the lateral angles produced into long, 

 straight, somewhat conical, and subacutely pointed spines. Body 

 beneath, rostrum, and legs coloured as above. Rostrum with the 

 extreme apex pitchy. Long. 13 mm. ; exp. pronot. angl. 11 mm. 



Hab. Naga Hills {Capt. Butler)— coll. Dist. 



