FAM. MEMBRACID^: 253 



broadly exposed scutellnm and a wing venatioii which seem sufficiently distinct to warrant the placing 

 of the insects in a separate genus. Head subquadrate, a little broader than high ; base arcuate and 

 laterally sinuate; eyes large, ovate and protruding; ocelH very large, prominent, a little farther from 

 each other than from the eyes and situated about on a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior 

 margins of genae sloping, rounded, weakly angulate at corners, edges distinctly flared forward; clypeus 

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

 convex but not strongly gibbous, bearing a pair of slender suprahumerals and a strong, straight posterior 

 process; metopidium vertical, about as broad as high; median carina strongly percurrent; humera 

 angles large andblunt; suprahumeral horns varying in size and structure but usually short, slender, 

 triquerate, not much longer than the distance between their bases and extending outvvard and upward ; 

 dorsum flat; posterior process long, tectiform, tricarinate, lying close to the scutellum and impinging on 

 the tegmina, tip acute and reaching beyond the internal angles but not to the tips of the tegmina; 

 scutellum subtriangular, broadly exposed on each side, base generally tomentose, tip bifurcate. 

 Tegmina semiopaque and more or less pubescent; base very weakly coriaceous; veinsstrong; five apical 

 and two discoidal cells; tip pointed; apical limbus narrow. Legs long and heavy; tibiae triquerate and 

 finely spined; liind tarsi longest. 



Type flavolineatus Buckton. 



Geographical distpibution : Thisgenus has representatives in India, Malaya, the East Indies 

 and the Philippines, the range covering a considerable amount of territory. 



1. acuticornis Funkhouser, F. M. S. Mus. i. 187 (1936). Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. 



2. brevifrons Funkhouser, Phil. Memb. 383 (igiS). PhiUppines, Palawan, Puerto 



Princesa. 

 3. /<jr(j/2H<a/«s Buckton, Mon. Memb. 247 (1903). — Pl. I 3, fig. 22 I . India. Tenasserim, Myitta, 



Mergui, Borneo. 



4. /m&a/HS Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. I : i63. 116(1857). Borneo, Sandakan. 



5. pilosus Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. .A.pp. 157. 335: (1916). India, East Himalaj^as, 



Kurseong. 



6. pyropinus Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 38. 2134(1907). Bunna, Ruby Mines. 



7. rectidorsum F^unkhouser, BuU. Brook. Ent. Soc. XXII : 107 (1927). Sumatra. 



8. wallaceiDxstani, Rhynch. Notes 320 (1916). Borneo, Sarawak. 



251. GENUS CENTROTYPUS Stal 



Centrotypus Stal, Hem. Afr. IV : 88 (1866). 



Eligius Distant, Rhynch. Notes i52 (1916). 



Cpyptoparma Goding, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XXXIX : 3. 3i3 (1931). 



Characters : h very distinct and rather remarkable genus of large decorative insects recognized 

 at once by the strongly gibbous, exaggerated and swoUen pronotum, the large, wide-spreading and 

 usually ampliate suprahumerals and the long sinuate posterior process. Head subquadrate, roughh' 

 sculptured, broader than high; base arcuate and sinuate; eyes large, ovate and protruding; ocelU large, 

 prominent, farther from each other than frotn tiie eyes and situated above a line drawn through centers 

 of eyes; inferior margins of genas sloping and rounded; clypeus broad, extending for half its length below 

 inferior margins of gente, tip rounded. Pronotum veyy heavy, gibbous and expanded, bearing a pair 



