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HOMOPTERA 



remarkable genus and may be at once recognized by the two peculiar dorsal lobes on the pronotum. 

 Head subtriangular and punctate; base sinuate ; eyes large and globular; ocelli large, prominent, glassy, 

 farther from each other than from the eyes and situated above a Hne drawn through centers of eyes ; 

 inferior margins of gena^ rounded ; clypeus triangular, extending for half its length below inferior 

 maro-ins of gena. Pronotum produced dorsally into two elevations, the anterior rounded and bulbous, 

 the posterior triangular and laterally compressed ; mctopidium extending forward over the head ; median 

 carina percurrent; humeral angles strong and prominent; posterior process heavy, tectiform, impinging 

 on scuteUum and tegmina, tip blunt, depressed, and just reaching the internal angles of the tegmina; 

 scutellum narrowly exposed on each side. Tegmina opaque, mottled; base coriaceous and punctate; 

 veins stron"-; five apical and three discoidal cells; apical Umbus narrow. Legs simple; hind trochanters 

 unarmed; hind tarsi longest. 



Type typicus Funkhouser. 



Geographical distribution : This genus is known only from the type species from South India, 



I. typicus Funkhouser, Ind. For. Rec. XVII : 10. 4 (igSS). — Pl. 14, India, Coorg, Fraserpet. 

 fig. 241. 



273. GENUS POGONTYPUS DlSTANT 



Pogontypus Distant, Fauna Brit. Ind. 67 (1907). 



Characters : This genus is characterized particularly by the strongly upcurved veins in the 

 apical area of the corium, a character which distinguishes it at once from any other genus of the tribe. 

 The insects are smaU and inconspicuous, usuaUy of dark colors, with an unarmed pronotum and a 

 short, straight posterior process. Head subquadiate, wider than high; base highiy arcuate and rounded; 

 eves large, globularand protruding; oceUi large, conspicuous, a little farther from each other tlian from 

 the eyes and situated a little above a line drawn through centers of eyes ; inferior margins of genae 

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

 Pronotum convex, rounded, unarmed in front ; metopidium projecting slightly over the head with its 

 basal margin strongl}' flanged, broader than high; median carina percurrent; humeral angles strong, 

 triangular and sliarp ; posterior process straight, impinging on scutellum and tegmina, tectiform, tip 

 acute and extending just beyond the internal angles of the tegmina; scuteUum broadly exposed on each 

 side. Tegmina broad, subhj^aline or semiopaque and often mottled ; veins very much upcurved in the 

 apical region; five apical and three discoidal cells, aU likely to be quite irregular in shape; apical limbus 

 verv narrovv or absent. Hind wings with four apical ceUs. Legs simple; hind trochanters unarmed ; 

 hind tarsi longest. 



Type complicatus Melichar. 



Geographical distribution : This genus is apparently hmited to the Island of Ceylon and is 

 represented b}' three species. 



1. complicatus MeUchar, Hom. Cey. i25. 3 (igoS). — Pl. I 4, fig. 242. Ceylon, Negombo, Pattipola, 



Kandy, Yatiyantola. 



2. dissimilis Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 173. 338o (1916). Ceylon. 



3. horvathi Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 67. 2208 (1907). Ceylon, Yatiyantola. 



