376 ^^6 Philippine Journal of Science i9ib 



Leptobelus dama Germ. Plate I, fig. 4. 



Centrotus dama Germ., Rev. Silb. (1835), 258, PI. 3, fig. 14; Fairm., 

 Rev. Memb. (1846), 510; Walk., List Horn. Brit. Mus. (1851), 602. 

 Leptobelus dama Stal, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. (1866), 386; Stal, Bid. 

 Memb. Kan. (1869), 284; Atkins., Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (1885), 

 54, 81; DiST., Fauna Brit. Ind.— Rhynch. (1907), 4, 15, fig. 11; 

 Lefroy, Ind. Ins. Life (1909), 729, fig. 504; Banks, Phil. Journ. 

 Sci., Sec. D (1910), 5, 47. 



Leptobelus dama is apparently common throughout India and 

 the East Indies. Professor Baker has sent me specimens from 

 Palawan, and Banks has also reported it from the Islands. The 

 species has been so often described and figured that further de- 

 scription is unnecessary, except for convenience in comparison 

 should other species of the genus be found. 



Shining black; densely punctate; base of scutellum and sides 

 of breast gray pilose; tegmina translucent bronze with prom- 

 inent brown veins; hind tibise very spiny. Lateral branches of 

 pronotal horn long, sharp, slightly curving backward. Posterior 

 process rising high above scutellum and gradually curving down- 

 ward until it almost touches tegmina midway between internal 

 angle and tip ; this process sharply carinate above. 



India (Fairmaire, Stal, Lefroy) ; East Indies (Walker) ; Java 

 (Distant) ; Palawan, Puerto Princesa (Baker). 



Genus LOBOCENTRUS Stal 



The genus Lobocentrus was erected " for the species zonatus 

 described by Stal from the Philippine Islands in 1870. Neither 

 the genus nor the species has since been mentioned in literature, 

 with the exception of a catalogue reference by Buckton as listed 

 below. The genus is, however, well described and clearly de- 

 fined, and its validity has never been questioned. It is ap- 

 parently close to Leptobelus and is to be distinguished from 

 that genus, according to the author, by the difference in position 

 of ocelli, the lobe of the posterior process, and the number of 

 discoidal areas in the tegmina. 



Lobocentrus zonatus Stal. 



Lobocentrus zonatus Stal, Hem. Phil. (1870), 728; Buckt., Mon. 

 Memb. (1903), 268. 



The following brief summary of the specific characters as 

 listed by Stal may aid the student in recognizing Lobocentrus 

 zonatus. 



Black; distinctly punctate; head, thorax, and scutellum 

 sparsely sericeous with golden-flavous pubescence, the sides of 



"Hem. Phil. (1870), 727. 



