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as long as abdomen, deeply sinuate at base, where the corium 
is considerably exposed ; two oblique transverse impressions 
near base, slightly longitudinally continued at their apices. 
Rostrum about reaching the intermediate coxe; meso- and 
metasterna with two very distinctly raised central carine. 
Hobanus typicus, sp. n. 
Black, very coarsely punctate; abdomen beneath much 
more finely punctate; antennew and tarsi pale brownish ; 
antenne with the third joint a little longest, fourth and fifth 
joints subequal. 
Long. 33 millim.; exp. pronot. angl. 2 millim. 
Hab. Burma: Bhamo. 
Genus Popops, Lap. 
Podops ceylonica, sp. n. 
Ochraceous, coarsely and darkly punctate ; head, anterior 
area of pronotum, and a small foveate spot at each basal angle 
of the scutellum more or less piceous ; scutellum with three 
small ochraceous spots at base and with two irregular longi- 
tudinal series of very dark punctures; body beneath piceous, 
lateral margins of metasternum and abdomen _ broadly 
ochraceous ; rostrum and antenne brownish ochraceous, the 
last with the apical joint piceous; legs castaneous, tibiz 
(excluding bases and the apices of the anterior tibia) and 
the tarsi ochraceous. 
Pronotum spined at the anterior angles, the spines more or 
less horizontally extended, lateral pronotal margins convex. 
Long. 7 millim.; exp. pronot. angl. 4 millim. 
Hab. Ceylon (Lewis, Coll. Dist.), Pomparipo (Brit. Mus.). 
Allied to P. limosa, Walk., in cclour, but to P. affinis, 
Hagl., in the structure of the pronotum. 
Podops oehracea, sp. n. 
Ochraceous, coarsely and more darkly punctate; head, 
anterior area and apices of lateral angles to pronotum, and a 
small foveate spot in each basal angle of the scutellum more 
or less piceous; body beneath, legs, antennee, and rostrum 
ochraceous; disk of abdomen, apical joint of antenne, coxe, 
and bases of femora piceous. 
Anterior pronotal spines anteriorly extended, lateral margins 
of the pronotum almost straight. 
Long. 8 millim.; exp. pronot. angl. 43 millim. 
