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30. Acanthalobus miliarius, Bol. 



Criotettiv miliarius, Bolivar, Anu, Soc. Eat. Belg. xxxi, 1887, 



pp. 18o, 2i>:3, 226. 

 Acanthalobus miliarius, Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pp. 108, 131, 



1.32, lo5, pi. ii, tig. 8; id.. Gen. Ins., Urtli. Tetrig. 190(J, p. 29, 



pi. ii, %. 19. 



Yellowish or ferruginous browa, with the lateral spines and 

 legs yellow. Vertex at least as broad as one of the eyes and 

 almost on the same level, the bitid carina 

 proiecting somewhat in front ; frontal 

 lateral carinse slightly curving inwards 

 below, obsolete above. Front of pronotum 

 above finely granulated, with a very strong 

 middle carina and two lateral ones ; on the 

 outer side of the latter a round tubercle. 

 Hinder lobe of pronotum convex between 

 the shoulders, then flattened, the median 

 carina undulated hindwards ; the surface 

 granulated, with numerous longitudinal 

 wrinkles and small round tubercles; hinder 

 extremity extending for about two-fifths of 

 its length beyond the hind femora; lateral 

 spines stout, extending obliquely backwards 

 and acute at the extremity. Hind femora 

 rather broad, very finely crenulated below, 

 central area blackish ; tibise yellow, the 

 outer carina with about 12 small spines, 

 the inner with 6 ; first joint of hind tarsi 

 longer than the otlier two ,- the pulvilli 

 rectangular, the second rather shorter tliau 

 the first, the tliird the shortest. Tegmina 

 twice as long as broad ; wings about as long as pronotum, 

 clouded iridescent, yellowish externally. 



The male is smaller and much less strongly rugose. 



Length 11 mm. ; pronotum, 16'5 mm. ; hind femur, 7 mm. 



Ceylon : Peradeniya, Ivandy, Colombo. 



Type in the collection of Brunner von Watteuwyl. 



Found in rice-fields, &c., and comes freely to light. 



Fig. 34. 

 Acanthalobus uiiUarias 



31. Acanthalobus bispinosiis, Dalm. 



Acrydium hispinosum, Dalman, Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Ilandl. 1818, 



T'ettix bispinosa, Balmaii, Anal. Ent. 1823, p. 86 ; StSl, liecens. 



Orth. i, 1873, p. 150. 

 Criotetti.c bispinosus, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. ICnt. Belg. xxxi, 1887, 



pp. 185, 223, 22U ; Jirunner, Ann. Mas. Geuova, xxxiii, 1893, 



p. 105. 

 Acridium {Tetrix) bispinosiun, Be Ilaan, Temminck, "S'erhandel., 



Orth. 1842, pp. 106, 169. 



