ACRIDID.E. 709 



Male. Piceous, sleuder. Head and piotborax slightly rugulose and 

 tubeiculaie, and with a very slight keel. Head short; tip of the vertex 

 depressed, elongate-quadrilateral ; front with four well-defined keels ; inner 

 keels parallel ; outer keels diverging towards the face. Eyes lurid, ellip- 

 tic. il. Antennae rather stout, slightly datlened, longer than the head and 

 the proihorax together. Prothorax with iiardly perceptible lateral keels, 

 not widening hindward ; transverse impressed lines distinct ; fore border, 

 sides and hind border rounded. Prosternal spine whitish, stout, elongate- 

 conical. Abdomen reddish, testaceous i)eneath. Hind femora longer than 

 the abdomen, bright red on the inner side and beneath ; hind lihite bright 

 red, rather shoiter than the hind femora, their spines with black tips. 

 Fore wings a liule longer than the abdonieu ; areolets pale cinereous. 

 Hind wings pellucid; veins yellow; tips cinereous, with blackish veins. 

 Length of the body 7 — 12 lines; expansion of the fore wings 1"2 — 24 

 lines. 



a — c. Australia. From Mr. Darnel's collection. 

 d. ? 



67. Caloptenus lepidus. 



I\Ias. Testaceus, gracilis ; caput el prothorax piceo lute bivittata ; caput 

 lonyiusculum, fastigio longo lineari depresxo aniice conico, fronte 

 subrugulosa ; antenna fulva; proihorax subscaher, subcarinatus ; 

 proslerni spina transversa, lonyiuscula ; femora poslica abdomine 

 longiora, fasciis duabus apiceque nigris ; tibice poslicm riifw, basi 

 albidce, spinis albidis apice nigris; alee anticct ferruginece,corpore 

 perpaullo breviores, apice cinerea, slriga postica teslacea lanceolata ,• 

 alee postica basi rosece. 



Male. Testaceous, slender. Head and proihorax with two broad 

 piceous stripes. Head elongate, smooth; tip of the vertex long, linear, 

 excavated, conical in front ; front slightly rugulose ; keels distinct, diverging 

 slightly towards the face. Eyes elliptical, ferruginous. Antennae tawny, 

 longer than the head and the prothorax together. Prothorax finely scabrous, 

 with a very slight middle keel; transverse impressed lines distinct; fore 

 border slightly rounded; sides rounded; hind border much rounded. 

 Prosternal spine transverse, rather long and stout, rounded at the tip. Ab- 

 domen slightly compressed. Hind femora rather longer than the abdomen, 

 with two black bands and with black tips ; hind tibiae l)right red, whitish 

 at the base, shorter than the hind femora; spines whitish, with black lips. 

 Fore wings ferruginous, nearly as long as the body, cinereous towards the 

 tips; a testaceous lanceolate streak along the hind border; veins ferru- 

 ginous. Hind wings cinereous, pellucid, rosy and with rosy veins towards 

 the base and along the interior border; veins elsewhere black. Ijcngih of 

 the body 1 1 lines; expansion of the fore wings 22 lines. 



«. Australia. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



