FROM THE INDIAN AKCUU'ELAGO. ISO 



imnctiued, with a slight keel, armed on each side with a stout, 

 diverging, slightly ascending horn, which is ahout one-third of the 

 length of the intervening space; hind horn slender, slightly curved 

 downwards to the tip, extending a little beyond the tip of the abdomen. 

 Legs piceous; tarsi tawny. Wings cinereous; fore wings piceous 

 and punctured at the base and along half of the length of the costa ; 

 hind border piceous towards the tip j veins pale. Length of the body 

 2 lines, of the wings 4 lines. 

 Hab. Mysol. 



273. Centhotus subflavipes. F(Em. Piceus, thorace cornibus du- 

 obus lateralibus cornu postico vix undulato abdominis apicem fere 

 attingente lateraliter earinato, abdomine dorso albido, pedibus pallide 

 flavescentibus femoribus piceis, alis anticis lurido-hyalinis basi vit- 

 taque costali abbreviata piceis punctatis venis pallide flavescentibus, 

 alis posticis pallide cinereis. 



Fctnale. Piceous. Thorax thick, scabrous, keeled, with a stout diver- 

 ging horn on each side, hind jjart forming a hardly undulatitig horn, 

 which has a keel on each side, and extends nearly to the tip of the 

 abdomen. Abdomen whitish above. Legs pale yellowish ; coxae and 

 femora piceous. Wings hyaline ; fore wings lurid, with a piceous 

 punctured costal stripe, which occupies all the base and extends 

 from the base to two-thirds of the length; veins pale yellowish. 

 ITind wings pale cinereous ; veins black. Length of the body 2h 

 lines, of the wings 6 lines. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



274. Centrotus densus. Foem. Niger, thorace cornibus lateralibus 

 uullis cornu postico recto abdominis apicem fere attingente, tibiis 

 tarsisque rufescentibus, alis anticis fuscis basi nigris, alis posticis 

 cinereo-hynlinis. 



Female. Black, very thick. Head and thorax with gilded jiubesccnce. 

 Thorax minutely punctured, slightly keeled, its hind part forming a 

 keeled straight horn, which extends almost to the tip of the abdo- 

 men. Tibiae and tarsi reddish. Fore wings brown, black at the 

 base. Hind wings cinereous, hyaline ; veins black. Length of the 

 body 2i-3 lines, of the wings 6 lines. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



276, Centrotus venosus. Mas. Niger, thorace cornibus laterali- 

 bus nullis cornu postico recto brevi, alis anticis fuscis basi nigris 

 venis pallide testaceis marginibus concoloribus, alis posticis cinereo- 

 hyalinis. 



Male. Black, broad, thick, pimctured. Head and thorax thickly covered 

 with gilded pubescence; thorax with a slight keel, emitting a straight 

 horn, which is m\ieh shorter than the abdomen. Legs with gilded 



