1885.] E. T. Afkimon—Noles on Indian Rliynchota. 87 



with a liigli median ridgo : tcgmiiia wuakly fuscescent- hyaline, veins 

 fuscous. Size almost the same as that of L. tauriu, but differs in 

 being longer, proportionately narrower, anterior horns longer, more pro- 

 duced upwards, scutellum concolorous (Stal). Body long 9: broad 

 5 millims. 



Reported from New Guinea, Timor, Philippines, Ceylon, India : 

 the Indian Museum possesses specimens from Calcutta. 



18. Leptocentrus substitutus, Walker. 

 Centrotus substitutus, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii. p. 605 (1881). 



In structure like the preceding : horns of thorax short as in var. vica- 

 rius, Walker, of L. taurus ; pectus with a thick patch of pale yellow down 

 on each side in front ; legs black ; tarsi pitchy ; hind tarsi tawny ; wings 

 black ; tips colourless ; veins tawny. Body long GJ : wings long 12| 

 millims. {WalJcer). 



Reported from N. Bengal. 



Genus Centrotypus, Stal. 



Hem. Afric. iv. p. 88 (186G) : Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 281 (1869). 



Frons gradually narrowed from the base, without a lobe on both 

 sides at the base : posterior process of thorax not sinuated on each side 

 from the base to the scutellum, never distant from the scutellum, gra- 

 dually narrowed, covering the whole or almost the whole of the scutel- 

 lum ; dorsum of thorax distinctly keeled, the keel not (or very obsoletely) 

 continued forward through the thorax, which instead of a keel has a some- 

 what smooth line : sides of scutellum not prominulous, scutellum not or 

 only a little, seldom twice, as broad as the base of the posterior process 

 of the thorax : tegmina with five entire, oblong, apical areas ; costal area 

 punctured at the base, costal and radial areas abbreviated at the same 

 distance or almost so from the base (Stal). 



19. Centrotypus flexuosus, Fabricius. 



Memhracis Jlexuosa, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iv. p. 12 (1794). 



Gentrotus flexuosus, Fabr., Syst. Rhyng. p. 18 (1803) : Fahmaire, A. S. E. F. 

 (2 ser.) iv. p. 516 (1846) : Walker List Horn. B. M. ii. p. 611 (1851). 



Gentrotus anchorago, Guerin, Icon, Regne Anim. t. 59, f. 4 (1829-43). 



Gentrotypus flexuosus, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 51 (1869) : Ofvers. K. V.-A, 

 Forh. p. 286 (1869). 



Thorax punctured, ccerulean ; with a stout horn on both sides, flat, 

 acute, black, a little flexuose, posteriorly produced in a spine, longer 

 than the abdomen : wings black, a spot on the slender mai'gin whitish : 

 body black (M.flexitosa, Fabr.). 



