FAM. MEMBRACID^^: 2^9 



subhyaline; base bioadly coriaceous and punctate; five apical and two discoidal cells; tip pointed; apical 

 limbus narrow. Legs heavy; femora cyhndrical; tibiae triquerous, slightly flatiened and finely .spined; 

 hind tarsi longest. 



.•\ccording to its author, this genus suggests the genus Ebhul in so far as the sinuate posterior 

 process is concerned, but of course is nt once separated from that genus by the juesence of the supra- 

 humeral horns. 



Type typicus Distant. 



Geographical distribution : This genus is represented by two species, one froni India and 

 the other from I-^ormosa. 



1. laiicornis Kato, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Forniosa XIX : 541 (1929). I"ormosa. 



2. lypicus Distant.Faun.Brit. Ind. App. 157(1916). — Pl. I 2,fig. 208. India, Nilgiri Hills. 



235. GENUS OTINOTUS BUCKTON 



Otinotus Buckton, Mon. Memb. 233 (1903). 

 Otionotus 1'error) Mclichar, Wien. Ent. Zeit. X.XIV : 2g5 (igoS). 



Characters : A large and well known genus distinguished particularly bj- the sloping and non- 

 gibbous pronotum and the undulate posterior jirocess which lies close to the scutellum. Head 

 subquadrate, wider than high ; base arcuate and sinuate: eyes large, globular and protruding : ocelli 

 small, inconspicuous, farther from each other than from the eyes and situated about on a line diawn 

 through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genai sloping and sinuate; clypeus very long and n;nrovv, 

 extending for three-fourths its length below inferior margins of genae, tip rounded. Pronotum slightl}- 

 convex, not strongly gibbous, bearing a pair of stout suprahumerals and a long, narrow, curved posterior 

 process; metopidium low, vertical, broader than high; median carina percurrent; humeral angles small 

 and blunt; suprahumeral horns stout, tricarinate, sharp, much longer than the distance betvveen their 

 bases, extending outward and upward; posterior process iong, slender, tricarinate, vveakly sinuate, lying 

 close to the posterior process and impinging on the tegmina; tip acuminate and reaching almost to the 

 tips of the tegmina; scutellum narrowly exposed on each side. Tegmina long, narrow, hyaline; base 

 narrowly coriaceous and punctate; veins strong; five apical and two discoidal cells; tip pointed; apical 

 limbus narrow. Legs simple, stout; femora cylindrical ; tibiae tiicjuerous, somevvhat sulcate and weakly 

 spined ; hind tarsi longest. 



Type aiiimiin Bucklon. 



Geographical distribution : This genus has a vvide distribution over .-\sia. .Africa and Australia. 



1. albomaculatus Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. .-\pp. i5g. 3355 (igi6). India, Nilgiri Hills. 



2. albosignatus Distant, Khynch. Notes 40 (1916). Oueensland. 



3. ammon Buckton, Mon. Memb. 233 (igo3). India, Nilgiri Hills. 



4. arcuatus Funkhouser, Can. Ent. LI : 10. 222 (igig). South .Africa, Pretoria. 



5. badius Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. .-Npp. i58. 335^ (igi6). India, Nilgiri Hills. 



6. belus Buckton, Mon. Memb. 2^2 (1903). Unknown . 



7. hrevicornis Distant. Faun. Brit. iml. App. 160. 335^ (igi6). India, Punjab, Lahore, Dehra 



Dun. 



