CRICKETS — CHOPARD 283 



base, becoming brown towards the middle. Palpi rufous brown, 

 short; 4th joint of maxillary palpi shorter than 3d, 5th as long as 3d, 

 feebly enlarged with parallel margins. 'Eyes feebly projecting; ocelli 

 very small. 



Pronotum 1% times as wide as long, with feeblj^ concave anterior 

 margin, slightly narrowing in front; disk almost flat, uniformly rufous 

 brown; lateral lobes high, with straight inferior margin, rounded an- 

 terior angle, posterior angle completely obliterated. Abdomen dark 

 brown above, rufous beneath; subgenital plate large, narrowing sub- 

 acute at apex, nonfm-rowed. Genitalia in the shape of a rather regular 

 triangular plate (fig. 5,6). 



Legs short, of the same color as the body. Anterior and median 

 femora compressed, slightly darkened at apex; anterior tibiae almost 

 prismatic, rather strongly dilated at base, perforated with two large, 

 oval tympana, the external being still larger than the internal; apex 

 of the anterior and median tibiae armed with tliree very small spurs; 

 metatarsi very short. Posterior femora short, very thick, blackish at 

 top; tibiae furrowed above, armed with five external spines, the two 

 distal ones being very close, foiu- long internal spines; denticles at 

 base and between the spines strong. Metatarsus rather short, thick, 

 armed above with two external denticles, one internal denticle at 

 apex; apical spurs rather short, subequal in length. 



Elytra lighter than the body, of a pale testaceous, finely pubescent, 

 extending a little beyond the extremity of the body, feebly enlarged 

 at apex; mirror in the shape of a wide, feebly oblique oval, divided 

 in the middle by a straight vein; archet weak, strongly broken before 

 the angle; anal veins much stronger than the archet; four oblique 

 veins forming two well distant groups ; the two internal of these veins 

 are long, united at base by a strong nodosity; the two external ones 

 are short, emerging from the archet in the deep curve before the 

 angle; diagonal vein long, feebly oblique; chords rather long, the sec- 

 ond strongh^ convex, the first united to the muTor by a short vein; 

 apical field rather long, with four veins and a rather regular reticula- 

 tion; lateral field wrapping; Sc bearing 12 branches. Wings a little 

 longer than the elytra. 



Female: Head, pronotum, and legs as in the male. Abdomen 

 blackish above, yellowish mottled with brown beneath; subgenital 

 plate wide, notched at top in a semicircle. Ovipositor short, thick, 

 feebly cmwed upwards; apical valves flattened, rectangular, truncated 

 at top. Elytra presenting rather regularly spaced oblique veins; four 

 are coming from the Cu and one from Cu.p; areolae rather regular, 

 pentagonal, disposed in two series between each vein; Sc bearing 

 eight branches. 



Dimensions: Length of body, cf 14.0 mm., 9 15.0 mm.; length 

 with wings, cf 17.0 mm., 9 19.0 mm.; pronotum, cT 3.0 mm., 9 3.2 



