194 APPENDIX. BEDUVIID^E. 



2966. Acanthaspis bombayensis, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belt/, liii, 

 p. 366 (1909). 



Black ; antennae, a discal longitudinal stripe on each side of 

 head at inner margins of eyes and a small quadrate spot at base, 

 posterior lobe of pronotum (excluding its anterior margin), a large 

 spot to corium behind middle, spots to connexivum, rostrum, and 

 legs ochraceous ; bases and apices of femora more or less black 

 (in the typical specimen the left anterior femur is almost wholly 

 black) ; first joint of antennae longly passing apex of head but 

 shorter than the second joint ; rostrum robust, basal joint reaching 

 eyes ; pronotum with the anterior lobe sculptured and greyishly 

 pilose, the anterior angles very shortly conic-ally prominent, the 

 posterior lobe somewhat transversely rugulose, the posterior 

 lateral angles shortly spinously produced, the spines directed 

 backward ; scutellum with a long obliquely erect spine the apex 

 of which is ochraceous ; membrane reaching the abdominal apex ; 

 body beneath and legs longly greyishly pilose ; the spongy furrow 

 on the anterior tibiae a little more than one-third their length. 



Length 13 millim. 



Hob. Bombay Prov. ; Igatpuri, W. Ghats. 



Allied to A. concinnula, Stal. 



To follow A. concinnula (vol. ii, p. 267). 



ACANTHASPIS MACULATA, Dist. (VELITRA). (Vol. II, p. 277.) 



When I originally described this species it was from a carded 

 specimen from Calcutta sent to me by the late Mr. Atkinson. 



Fig. 110. Acanthaspis maculata. 



From an examination of this example it appeared to have the 

 disk of the abdomen beneath distinctly flattened and I thus 

 placed it in the genus Velitra. Since that time I have received 



