ACANTHALOBUS. LOXILOBUS. 41 



proiiotum posteriorly irregularly sinuate. AVings more or less 

 abbreviate." 



Ceylon : Colombo. 



35. Acanthalobus flavopictus, Bol. 



Criotettix Jlavojnctus, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, 

 p. 582. 



Greyish brown, with pale markings, abdomen spotted with 

 yellow. Vertex slightly narrower than the eye, carinated in the 

 middle ; frontal ridge between the antennje somewhat compressed. 

 Pronotum smooth on the back, somewhat raised between the 

 shoulders, behind them bit'oveolate, irregularly granulose ; middle 

 carina slender, continuous ; prozona carinated on each side, with 

 the carinae converging behind ; hinder process long and pointed, 

 the deflexed lobes very finely granulated with white, the lateral 

 spine acute. Tegmina oblong-ovate, roundly truncate behind. 

 Wings long, bro^\■u towards the margins, with parallel uervures. 

 Four front femora very finely crenulated ; lower cariuse of the 

 middle legs rather indistinctly bilobate, upper carina of the hind 

 femora 3- or 4-denticulate, with the upper external and internal 

 ai'eas with rows of obtuse tubercles ; hind tibise slightly waved, 

 pulvilli of the tarsi acute. 



Length 12 mm. ; pronotum, 17 mm. ; hind fennir, 7*5 mm. 



Madras : Kodaikanal. 



Resembles A. miliarius and spinosus. Differs from the former in 

 its narrower vertex and smooth pronotum, and from the latter by 

 the depressions on the pronotum, which make it resemble a 

 GavialkUum, but that the median carina is straight and not 

 depressed. 



Genus LOXILOBUS. 



Loxilobus, Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pp. 108, 134 ; id., Gen. Ins., 

 Ortb. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 22, 29. 



Type, Loxilobus acittus, Hanc. 



Range. Oriental and Austro-Malayan Regions. 



Body slender, scabrous or granulated. Head slightly higher 

 than the eyes, vertex about as wide as the eyes, frontal costa 

 rounded, projecting in front. Pronotum raised between the 

 shoulders, middle carina slightly sinuated, hinder process longer 

 than the hind femora, or abbreviated, lateral lobes produced. 

 Tegmina oblong ; wings more or less developed. Femora with 

 very small spines, hind tibia? spined ; first and third tarsal joiiits 

 of nearly equal length, the three pulvilli also equal. 



