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paiticularly in having a broad, notched scutellum, a iong, decurved posterior process and straight 

 simple apical veins in the tegmina. More detailed generic characters may be noted as follows : Head 

 subquadrate, twice as broad as high; base regularly arcuate; eyes large and globular; ocelli large, 

 prominent, equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated about on a Hne dravvn through 

 centers of eyes; inferior margins of genas sinuate ; clypeus long and usually narrow, extending for more 

 than half its length below inferior margins of genae, tip rounded or truncate. Pronotum convex and 

 bearing strong suprahumerals and a long posterior process vvhicli extends backward high above the 

 scutellum ; metopidium vertical, usually higher than broad ; median carina strongly percurrent ; huineral 

 angles large, triangular and blunt; suprahumeral horns long and strong, variable in size and structure 

 but alvvays simple and sharp, usually longer than the distance between their bases and exlending 

 outward and upward with a tendency to curve backward; posterior process long, arising from higli 

 above the scutellum and usually extending backward and downward, reaching well beyond the internal 

 angles of the tegmina and often as far as their tips ; scutellum entirely exposed, broader than long, base 

 usually swollen and often tomentose, tip broadly notched. Tegmina long, narrow and hyaline; base 

 narrowly coriaceous and punctate; veins strong; five apical and two discoidal cells; apical limbus well 

 developed. Legs simple; femora cylindrical ; tibia; triquerate ; hind tarsi longest. 



Type altifrous Walker. 



Geogpaphical distribution : This is one of the most widely 

 World genera and is found over wide areas in Asia, Africa and Oceanica. 



1. abdullah Distant, Rhynch. Notes 290 (igi6). 



2. alba Funkhouser, Bornean Memb. 470 (1929). 



3 alhescens Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XLIII : 4. 427 (igSS). 



4. alholineatus Funkhouser, Ling. Sci. Journ. XVI : 2. 238 (1937). 



5. albonotata Distant, Rh^-nch. Xotes 289 (igi6). 



6. altifrons Walker, List Hom. H. M. 608. 21 (iS5i). 



atratus Walker. List Hom. B. M. 624. 60 (i85i). 

 hos Signoret, Thoms. Arch. Ent. 336. 640 (i858). 

 gnomon Hiickton, Mon. Meml). 25i (1903). 



7. autilope Stal, Freg Eug. Res. Ins. 284. igi (i85g). 



8. arcuatus Funkhouser, Phil. Jouni. Sci. XXXI II : ii3 (1^27). 

 g. arebiensis Goding, Memb. Africa 224 (ig32). 



10. aureomaculatus Distant, Rhynch. Notes3i5 (igi6). 



11. australis Distant, Rhynch. Xotes 24 (igi6). 



12. bajulans Distant. Faun. lirit. Ind. App. i55. 3349 (1916). 



i3. holivari Pelaez, Memb. Fernando Po 58 (ig35). 

 14, hrunneus Funkhouser, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XLIl 

 i5. confusus Distant. Rhynch. Notes i5i (igi6). 



16. Jlexicorne Walker, liis. Saund. 78 (i858). 



1-. 428 (1935). 



distributed of all of the Old 



Mala\'a, Siam. 



Borneo. 



Africa, Sieira Leoiie. 



China, Hainan Island. 



India, Nilgiris, Ilillgrove. 



Africa, Congo, Sierra Leone, 

 West Africa, Calabar, Kam- 

 eroons, Dutch East Africa, 

 Amani, Sigital. 



Philippines. 



PhiIippiiies,PaIav>an, Hawaii. 

 Africa, Dungu. 

 Africa, Uganda. Kafu, Kam- 



pala. 

 Africa, Xatal, Malvern. 

 Inilia, Bengal, Calcutta, Tra- 



vancore, Cochin .State, Bur- 



ma, Siam, Malaya. 

 Africa, Fernando Po. 

 Africa, Nairobi. 

 Africa, Kameroons, Kenja, 



Aberdare. 

 India, Xorth Hindostan. 



