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HOMOPTERA 



2. apicatus Melichar, Notes Mus. Leid. ii3 (1914). 



3. curvaUis Melichar, Hom. Ceylon 112. 7 (igoS). 



4. fuscomaculatus Kato, 111. Ins. Jap. 41:7 (1933). 



Java. 



Ceylon, Kandy, Peradeniya. 



Japan. 



227. Genus PARAPOGON DISTANT 



Parapogon Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 22 (1907). 



Characters : This genus is most nearly related to Tdingaua from which it differs cliiefly in 

 having strongly curved veins in the apical area of the tegmina. The two known species of the genus 

 are both small, dark inconspicuous insects. Head subquadrate, twice as broad as high; base arcuate 

 and weakly sinuate; ocelli large, prominent, farther from each other than from the eyes and situated 

 slightly above a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae horizontal and rounded ; 

 clypeus broad, extending for two-thirds its length below inferior margins of genae, tip rounded. 

 Pronotum convex with strong suprahumerals and a straight posterior process elevated well above the 

 scutellum; metopidium vertical, convex, broader than high; median carina percurrent; humeral angles 

 large, triangular and blunt; suprahumeral horns stout, simple, sharp, triquerate, as long as the distance 

 between their bases, extending outward and upward; posterior process simple, tricarinate, arising from 

 low on the pronotum but not touching scutellum, slightly curved above the scutellum and then straight 

 above the abdomen, not impinging on the tegmina, tip sharp and extending beyond the internal angles 

 of the tegmina; scutellum entireh' exposed, subtriangular, longer than broad. Tegmina semiopaque 

 or subhyaline; basal and costal areas coriaceous and punctate; five apical and two iliscoidal cells; veins 

 of apical area strongly curved; tip pointed; apical limbus very narrow. Legs simple; all tarsi about 

 equal in length. 



Type kandyiana Distant. 



Geographical distribution : This genus is known only from Ceylon. Two species have 

 been described. 



1. insignis Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. .App. i53 (1916). — 



fig. 201. 



2. kandyiana Distant. Faun. Brit. Ind. 22. 2i3o (1907). 



Pl. I 2, Ce^-lon, Nuwara Eliya. 



Ceylon, Kandy. 



228. Genus XIPHOPCEUS Stal 



Xiphopoeus Stal, Hem. Afr. IV: 91 (1866). 



Kleidos Buckton, Moii. Memb. 2:4 (igoSj. 



Euxiphopoeus Godirif;, Joiirn. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXXVIII : 91 (igSo). 



Characters : This genus contains a group of rather strange looking insects characterized 

 particularly by the angulate, compressed and highly arched posterior process, rough, heavy suprahum- 

 erals, and long, pointed, opaque tegmina. Head subtriangular, about as long as broad; base highiy 

 arcuate and weaklj- sinuate ; eyes ovate; ocelli large but inconspicuous, farther from each other than from 

 the eyes and situated about on a line drawn through centers of eyes ; inferior margins of genae rounded and 

 extended far downward; clypeus broad, extending for one-third its length below inferior margins of 

 genae, tip rounded. Pronotum convex, roughly sculptured, bearing heavy, rough suprahumerals and 

 a strong, arched, lateralh' flattened posterior process; metopidium vertical, about as broad as high ; 



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