2 MALAYAN MEMBRAOIDAE. 



Sides of thorax thickly pubescent with reddish hairs. Tooth 

 of prothorax very prominent; that of mesothorax very weak. 



Tegmina opaque, reddish-brown, slightly pubescent and punc- 

 tate at base, veins prominent, tip acute, marginal border very narrow 

 or lacking. Hind wings with four apical areas. 



Undersurface of body very dark brown, almost black. Ovi- 

 positor black. Ventral surface of abdomen somewhat pubescent 

 with whitish tomentose patches at base. 



Legs dark brown ; femora swollen and smooth ; tibiae triangular 

 and finely spined ; tarsi ferruginous. 



Length 8 mm. ; width between extremities of suprahumeral 

 horns 4 mm. 



Type: female (Baker's duplicate No. 9084). 



Locality : Singapore. 



2. Centrochares horrificus, Westwood. 



1837. Centrotus horrificus Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. 130. 



1841. Guer. Ma?. Zool. Ser. 2. III. Ins. 



PI. 82. 



1842. Lefebvre Ann. Soc. Fr. Bull. 



1842, p. xxi. 



1851. Pterygia horrificus Walker List Horn. Brit. Mus. 500. 



9. 



1852. Walker List Horn. IV. Tab. 4. 



figs. 4 and 5. 

 1866. Centrochares horrificus Stal Analect. Hem. 386. 

 1870. Stal Hem. Phil. 731. 1. 



1903. Pterygia horrifica Buckt. Mon. Memb. 73. PI. 12, 



fig. 5. 



1903. Ptervgia spinula Buckt. Mon. Memb. 73. PI. 12. 



fig. 4. 

 1903. Centrochares horrificus Buckt. Mon. Memb. 266. 



1914. Funkh. Journ. Ent. & Zool. YI : 



2. p. 69. 6. 



1915. Dist. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, 16: 



94. p. 327. 



1915. Funkh. Rev. Phil. Memb. 370. 



1918. Funkh. Notes Phil. Memb. 23. 



One specimen taken at Singapore and bearing Baker's dupli- 

 cate No. 8779. Apparently this species has a wide distribution 

 throughout eastern Asia and' the East Indies. The variation shown 

 in examples studied does not warrant the splitting up of the species. 



-Jour. Straits Branch 



