84 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Tndian Rliyncliota. [No. 2, 



somewhat prominent : horns above rather long, broad, irregularly pris- 

 matic, slightly diverging and inclined forwards ; tips more diverging, 

 almost trifurcate, slightly amplified ; inner side and outer side much 

 broader than the hinder side, angles slightly serrated ; of the three 

 forks or angles at the tip, the fore one is slightly obtuse, the mid- 

 dle one acute, and the hind one rectangular ; hind horn stout and 

 vertical for a short space from the base, then forming a right angle and 

 extending backward much beyond the tip of the abdomen ; hind part 

 tawny, slender, tapering, very slightly undulating, with an acute black 

 tip : pectus and abdomen piceous : legs tawny : a brown spot on the hind 

 angle of each tegmen : veins tawny, here and there, brown (Walker). 

 Body long 4J : exp. teg. 9^ millims. 

 Reported from N. India. 



Genus Acanthophyes, Stal. 



Hem. Afric. iv. p. 87, 89 (1866) ; Of vers. K. V.-A. p. 281 (1869). 



Thorax much elevated between the lateral angles, very often cornuted 

 above the same angles ; posterior process distant from the scutellum, 

 bisinuate beneath, more or less amplified or lobed in the middle, between . 

 the sinus, with the amplified part reaching the dorsum of the abdo- 

 men or the apex of the scutellum : tegmina with five apical, two discoi- 

 dal areas : wings with four apical areas : tibiae simple (Stal) . 



15. Acanthophyes capra, Fabricius. 



Membracis capra, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppt. p. 514 (1798). 

 Centrotus capra, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 20 (1803). 

 Acanthophyes capra, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 50 (1869). 



Body altogether fuscous, immaculate : horns of thorax, large, thick, 

 obtuse ; thorax posteriorly short, emarginate : tegmina fuscous (Fabr.). 

 Ferruginous black or ferruginous, remotely flavescent-grey-sericeous, two 

 small basal spots on scutellum and sides of pectus very densely sericeous : 

 lateral horns of thorax depressed, truncated, bicarinate above. 5 : long 

 with tegmina 6| ; thorax broad, 3 ; exp. thoracic horns, 4|- millims. 



Head between the eyes a little shorter than broad, beneath the eyes 

 abruptly very much narrowed ; f rons gradually slightly narrowed, sub- 

 truncate, freely produced downwards for a distance : thorax punctured, 

 armed on both sides anteriorly above the lateral angles with a depressed 

 horn, very slightly narrowed towards the apex, truncated at the apex, 

 bicarinate above and below ; anterior apical angle of the horns round, 

 posterior somewhat acute ; posterior process distinctly carinate, very 

 broadly sinuated in the middle above, a little amplified beneath in the 

 middle, reaching the apex of the scutellum, very slightly decurved 



