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humeral horns. The posterior horn is short and hardly attains to half the length of 
the abdomen. A white tomentose spot occurs between the insertions of the wings. 
The tegmina are short and pointed, with a neuration like Oxyrhachis. The hind 
tibiae are dilated. 
Size, 7x3 mm. 
Habitat. —Grahamstown, E. Africa. 
Kindly presented by Mr. Charles Lounsbury. 
DAUNUS PALLIDUS. 
(Plate L. fig. 5.) 
General colour greyish-brown. Suprahumerals porrect and rounded at the tips. 
Posterior horn as long as the tegmina and recurved at the extremity. Abdomen 
robust and ringed with grey. Tegmina short and densely ferruginous, with brown 
neuration. Wings hyaline. The tibiae slightly spatulate. 
Size, 7x4 mm. 
Genus: CENTRUCHOIDES, Fowl. 
One chief difference between this and the genus Centruchus, Stal, consists in the 
wings having an additional discoidal area. There also is a divergence in the form of 
the suprahumerals. 
CENTRUCHOIDES LATICORNIS. 
(Plate L. figs. 7, 7a.) 
Fowl. l.c. p. 1G2, Tab. X. fig. 6. 
Ochreous-yellow. Suprahumerals short and truncated at their tips. Eyes 
prominent. Posterior process slender, and reaches to the apex of the tegmina. 
A waxy secretion occurs on lower part of the abdomen, and this is also abundant 
below the frons of the insect. Legs dilated. This is an American species, whereas 
both Oxyrhachis and Centruchus are Old World forms. 
Size, 9 x 4 mm. 
Habitat. —Chiriqui. 
Drawn from an example in the Fowler Collection. 
CENTRUCHOIDES TASMANIA 
(Plate L. fig. G.) 
Centrotus Tasmania j B.M. 
Not unlike C. laticornis, but not so pilose; colour rufous brown. 
Size, 9 x G mm. 
Habitat. —Melbourne. 
