232 HOMOPTERA 



14. paria Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 5i3. i3 (1846). India, North Bengal, South 



India, Kodaikanal. 



i5. recurvata Distant, Rhynch. Notes 288 (1916). Borneo, Sarawak, Sumatra. 



16. scutellata China, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XVI : 480 (1925). ' Asia, Yunnan. 



17. travancorensis Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. i5i. 3343(1916). India. Travancore, W. Ghats. 



18. varipes Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. I : 164. 119 (1857). Borneo, Sarawak, Sumatra. 



224. Genus ACANTHOPHYES Stal 



Acanthophyes Stal, Hem. Afr. IV : 89 (1866). 



Characters : A small and little known genus of small insects characterized by having an inferior 

 lobe on the posterior process. Head subovate, broader than high; base highly arcuate and feebly 

 sinuate; eyes small, somewhat flattened laterally; ocelli small, inconspicuous, somewhat nearer to each 

 other than to the eyes and situated a little above a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins 

 of genae sloping, rounded andslighth' flanged; clypeus long, narrow, extending for half its length below 

 inferior margins of gense, tip rounded. Pronotum strongly convex with stout suprahumerals and a 

 robust posterior process; metopidium vertical, subquadrate, about as broad as high ; median carina 

 percurrent; humeral angles strong, triangular and blunt; suprahumeral horns strong, triquerate, about 

 as long as the distance between their bases, extending outward and upward, tips sharp and somewhat 

 flattened dorso-ventrally ; posterior process heavy, sinuate, tricarinate, arising from low on the pronotum 

 but not touching the scutellum, bearing an inferior median lobe which varies in size but which usually 

 touches the tegmina, tip acute and extending almost to the tips of the tegmina on which it impinges; 

 scutellum entirely exposed, subtriangular, longer than broad, tip notched. Tegmina subhyaline; base 

 coriaceous and punctate; veins not conspicuous; five apical and two discoidal cells; tip rounded; apical 

 limbus broad, especially on the anal margin. Legs simple; femora cyhndrical; tibiae triquerate and 

 finely spined; hind tarsi longest. 



Type albipennis StaL 



Geographical distribution : This is an African and Indian genus with one aberrant species 

 in southern Europe. 



1. alb ipenitis StaX, Hem. Afr. IV: 89. i (1866). Africa, Caffraria. 



2. capra Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. 514. 2^4 (1798). India, Tranquebar. 



3. chloroticus Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. France II : 9. 86 (i85i). .'\frica, Caffraria. 



4. wa/Ae;-» Funkhouser, Cat. Memb. 338 (1927). — Pl. I 2, fig. 198. North Africa, Morocco, Spain, 



chloroticus (preoccupied) Walker, Ins. Saund. 82 (i858). PortUffal 



225. GENUS BATHOUTHA DlSTANT 



Bathoutha Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 23 (1907). 



Characters : The t^^pe of this genus, which is the only species in the genus, is a unique insect 

 showing very remarkable formation in the suprahumerals, which project almost directly forward, in the 

 posterior process which is bent in a bow over the body. and in the strongly curved veins of the tegmina. 

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



