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Length from front of head to tips of tegmina 5 mm. ; width 

 between tips of suprahumeral horns 2*3 mm. 



Type. — Male. 'Ihe type-specimen bears Professor Baker's 

 duplicate number 16912. 



Locality.— Hills near Taiping, Perak, Dec. 26-30, 1915 (N. 

 Annandale). 



Leptocentrus decipiens Kirby. 



One female from Calcutta, the label bearing the data ' ' Tolly- 

 ganj, April 9, 1917 (F.H. Gravely)." 



Leptocentrus leucaspis Walker. 



One male from hills near Taiping, Perak, Dec. 26-30, 1915 

 (N. Annandale), and one female from Rawalpindi, Punjab, June- 

 July, 1917 (R. Hodgart). 



Leptocentrus mephistopheles Buckton. 



One female from Garo Hills above Tura, Assam, alt. 3500-3900 

 ft, Sept., 1917 (Mrs. Kemp). 



I am very suspicious that Buckton's species is merely a colour 

 variety of L. leucaspis Walker. 



Leptocentrus longispinus Distant. 



One female from Mormugao, Portuguese India, Sept., 1916 

 (S. Kemp). 



Leptocentrus obortus Distant. 



Four specimens, a male from Phagu, alt. 9000 ft., Simla Hills,. 

 May 18-21, 1916 (N. Annandale and S. Kemp) ; two females from 

 Tura, Garo Hills, Assam, Oct. 1917 (Mrs. Kemp) ; and a female 

 from Barkuda I., Chilka Lake, Ganjam Dist., Madras Pre-.. Sept. 

 20, 1919 (E. Brunetti). 



Ebhul maculipennis, sp. nov, 

 (PI. X, fig. 3). 



Near E. carinatus Funkh., but larger, with differently shaped 

 metopidium and differently marked tegmina. 



Large, dark brown, not punctured, sparingly pubescent ; base 

 of metopidium flaring forwards over the head ; pronotum high 

 and subarcuate ; posterior process long, sinuate, sharp, reaching 

 just to internal angles of tegmina ; tegmina opaque, richly marked 

 with yellow and dark brown ; trochanters, femora and bases of 

 tibiae dark brown, rest of legs yellow. A beautiful, distinct and 

 well-marked species. 



Technical description : — 



Head subtriangular, longer than wide, rough'y sculptured, 

 dark brown, not punctate, densely pubescent with short silvery 



