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jugis seque longis, tuberculis antenniferis extus sphia brevi por- 

 recta vix incurva armatis, articulo primo anteiinarum apicem 

 capitis vix attingente (ceteri articuli desunt). Pronotum paullo ante 

 médium transversim impressum, in areis cicatricum callo trans- 

 verso ovali instructum, mox ante bas areas per spaliuni haud 

 altum fortiter déclive, margine apicali sat depresso, angulis apica- 

 libus in spinam depressam iobiformem apice sinuatam oblique 

 antrorsum productis, margine laterali mox pone spinam apicalem 

 profunde sinuato, deinde usque ad spinam antehumeralem subrec- 

 to, inermi, hac spina breviter triangulari, extrorsum et deorsum 

 directa, quam spina apicali multo minore. Scutellum in parte 

 basali utrinque oblique et sat profunde impressum, pone frena 

 distincte rotimdato-ampliatum. Corium apicem segmenti quinti 

 connexivi haud attingens. Abdomen subtus adpresse pallido-pilo- 

 sulum. — Long. 5.5mill. 

 Anuradhapura. 



Very distinct from the other Indian species by its small size and 

 the structure of the pronotum. 



Distant in bis Indian Fauna bas confounded Scotijiophara Stâl 

 with tbe palearctic genus Podops Lap. Among his generic charac- 

 ters is the statement : « scutellum slightly narrowed behind tlie 

 base ». This is a character o( Scotïjiophara but not of Podops, the 

 scutellum of which bas no distinct frena, and conseqnently is not 

 constricted behind the base. 



Fam.. OOLOB-AuTHElISTIID-^E. 



Phsenacantha androgyna n. sp. — Flavotestaceo-, plum- 

 beo-, rufo- et albo-varia. Caput flavo-testaceum, pronoto latins, 

 impuuQtatum, supra vittis duabus fuscis antrorsum divergentibus 

 ab ocellis ad basin antennarum extensis, macula majuscula apicali 

 genarum nigricante, dimidio posteriore guise plumbeo, nigro punc- 

 tato, ocellis maxime appropinquatis, spatio inter eos ocello uno 

 fere angustiore, antennis et rostro tlavo-testaceis, articulo primo 

 illarum latitudini capitis subseque longo, secundo primo saltem 

 dimidio longiore, tertio secundo paullo longiore, apice fusco, 

 quarto secundo sesqui longiore, nonnihil infuscato. Pronotum 

 latitudine tertia parte longius, modice déclive, antrorsum vix 

 angustatum, impressione transversa sat profunda, lobo antico 

 plumbeo, sat dense nigro punctulato, antice vertice parum, postice 

 distincte altiore, lobo postico antico sesqui longiore et haud con- 

 vexiore, pallide ochreo-testaceo, sat dense fusco-punctulato, vittis 

 tribus nigricantibus notato, vitta média angustiore et postice 



