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protruding; ocelli large, prominent, farther from each other than from the eyes and situated above a Hne 

 drawn through centers ofeyes; inferior margins of genae sloping and rounded; clypeus long and narrow, 

 extending for three-fourths its length below inferior margins of genas, tip rounded. Pronotum conical, 

 nearly ilat above, not convex, and bearing porrect suprahumerals and an aiched posterior process ; 

 metopidium sloping forward, much higher than broad; median carina strongly percurrent; humeral 

 angles small, triangular and pointed; suprahumeral horns long, slender, close together, extending ahnost 

 directly forward, very httle upward and hardly at all outward, tips dilated and bearing transverse points; 

 posterior process long, slender, curved, arising from low on the pronotum but not touching the scutellum, 

 arched over the abdomen, tip sharp and extending just beyond the internal angles of the tegmina; 

 scutellum entirely exposed, longer than broad, frnely longitudinall}' carinate. Tegmina long, narrow, 

 subhyaHne; basal and costal areas coriaceous and punctate; five apical cells and one discoidal cell; veins 

 of apical area strongly curved; tips pointed; apical hmbus very narrow. Legs simple; femora 

 cyhndrical, tibise slender and finely spined; all tarsi about equal in length. 



Type indicans Walker. 



Geogpaphical distribution : This genus is known only from the type from Ceylon. 



I. iniiicans Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. 128 (i858). — Pl. 12, Ceylon, Yatiyantota. 

 fig. 199. 



226. Genus INDICOPLEUSTES DISTANT 



Indicopleustes Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 25 (1907). 



Characteps : Small insects, closely related to those of the preceding geniis and showing similar 

 curved apical veins in the tegmina but differing in the suprahumerals which are short and extend outward 

 and upward, and in the sinuate posterior process which is first arched over the scutellum and then 

 impinges on the tegmina for its distal half. Head subovate, twice as broad as high; base arcuate and 

 strongly sinuate; eyes globular; ocelli large, prominent, about equidistant from each other and from tlie 

 eyes and situated a little above a line drawn through centers of ej^es; inferior margins of genjE horizontal 

 and rounded; clypeus extending for half its length below inferior margins of genae. Pronotum convex, 

 bearing short suprahumerals and a sinuate posterior process; metopidium convex, vertical, a little 

 broader than high ; median carina strongly percurrent; humeral angles large, triangular and poinled ; 

 suprahumeral horns stout, as long as the distance between their bases, extending outward and upward, 

 tips sharp and curved backward; posterior process sinuate, arising from low on the pronotum but not 

 touching the scutellum, arching over the scutellum and then curving downard and impinging on the 

 tegmina throughout its distal half, tip sharp and reaching just beyond the internal angles of the tegmina; 

 scutellum entirely exposed, about as broad as long. Tegmina broad, semiopaque; basal and costal 

 areas coriaceous and punctate; five apical and two discoidal cells; tips rounded; apical limbus ver}' 

 narrow. Legs simple; all tarsi about equal in length. 



Type albomaculatus Distant. 



Geographical distpibution : This is an Asiatic genus represented by species in Ceylon, Java 

 and Japan. 



I. albomaculatus Distant, F"aun. Brit. Ind. 25. 2i33 (1907). — Pl. I 2, Ceylon, Peradeni\a. 

 fig. 200. 



