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, slightly forvvardly curved tuberculous spines; rostrum with the 

 'basal joint reaching but not passing eyes: pronotum with the 

 anterior lobe only a little more than half the length of posterior 

 lobe ; scutelluin granulose ; corium distinctly longitudinally 

 broadly ridged, the costal ridge more prominent and not quite 



Fig. 102. Opisthoplatys cornutus. 



reaching apical angle, a second prominent discal ridge, and a 

 subclaval less prominent ridge, between the ridges the colour is 

 brownish ochraceous ; membranal veins a little ochraceous at 

 base. 



Length 8 millim. 



Hab. Travancore ; W. Ghats, Tenmalai. 



Genus APOCAUCUS. 

 Apocaucus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 500 (1909), 



Type, A. laneus, Dist. 



Distribution. Northern India. 



Head with the anterior lobe moderately porrect and a little 

 produced in front of eyes, but clothed with long curled hairs, 

 somewhat flattened on disk but longly produced and apically 

 curled downward at their apices on lateral and anterior margins ; 

 antenme longly pilose, first joint about as long as head, second 

 shorter than first, remaining joints very slender : rostrum reaching 

 the anterior coxae, first joint reaching eyes but not extending 

 behind them ; pronotum narrowed anteriorly, the basal area cen- 

 trally sulcately impressed, on each side of which are two callosities 

 making a transverse series of four in all, the central ones largest ; 

 scutellum callous at base ; elytra longly passing the abdominal 



