MALAYAN MEMBRACIDAE. 3 



3. Leptocentrus Ieucaspis, Walker. 



1858. Centrotus leueaspis Walk. List. Horn. B. M. Suppl. 



158. 



1903. Leptocentrus Ieucaspis Buckt. Mon. Memo. 235. PL 53. 



figs. 3a, b. 



1907. Dist. Fauna Brit. Ind. 30. 2139. 



1915. Funkh. Kev. Phil. Memo. 379. 

 1918. Funkh. Xotes Phil. Memb. 37. 



One specimen bearing Baker's duplicate Xo. ST 71 taken at 

 Singapore. 



4. Leptocentrus obortus, Distant. 



1916. Leptocentrus obortus Dist. Fauna Brit. Ind. App. 154. 



33-17. 



Two specimens (Baker's duplicate numbers S772 and 89 7 6) 

 collected at Singapore. 



5. Leptocentrus longispinus, Distant. 



1907. Leptocentus longispinus Dist. Fauna Brit, Ind. 31. 2141. 

 One male and three females all collected at Singapore. 



6. Centrotypus asmodeus, Distant. 



1907. Centrotypus asmodeus Dist. Fauna Brit. Ind. 36. 2150. 

 One female (Bakers duplicate Xo. 8978) taken at Singapore. 



7. Nilautama minutispina, sp. nov. 



Black, punctate, pubescent: posterior process very short and 

 slender: tegmina smoky-hyaline, wrinkled: eyes red: scutellum 

 white tomentose. 



Head twice as broad as long, black, finely punctate, densely 

 pubescent with short golden hairs: base sinuate: eyes red: ocelli 

 not prominent, gray, equidistant from each other and from the 

 eyes and situated on a line above centers of eyes : clypeus twice as 

 long as wide, extending for two-thirds its length below the inferior 

 margin of the face, tip pubescent and rounded. 



Prothorax narrow, black, finely punctate, sparingly pubescent 

 with golden hairs : metopidinm narrow, much sunken below supra- 

 humeral horns : humeral angles short, blunt, not prominent : supra- 

 humeral horns strong, very wide as seen from above, extending 

 almost directly outward, somewhat upward and slightly backward, 

 triquerate. tips blunt and recurved: posterior process very slender 

 and short, extending not farther than tip of scutellum. arising well 

 above base of pronotum. tricarinate. acute, nearly straight, tip 



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