50 ACRYDIIN^. 



45. Lamellitettix acutus, Hanc. 



Lainellitettix acutus, Hancock, Spol, Zevl. ii, 1904, pp. 107, 126, 15-4, 

 pi. ii, fig. 6 ; id., Gen. Ins., Ortli. Tetrig. 1906, p. 42, pi. ii, fig. 21. 



Body brown, rugose. Vertex about as wide as one of the eyes, 

 not raised ; antennae long and slender, witli the carina projecting 

 between them. Pronotum gibbous between the shoulders, and 

 undulated behind ; a strong triangular laraellated lateral pro- 

 jection ending in a shai'p spine. Abdomen about as long as the 

 hind femora, but the appendages extending beyond for half the 

 distance to the extremity of the pronotum, which is pointed, and 

 about as long as the wings. J^'rout tibia3 with a few small spines 

 below, and hind tibiae with a few above. 



Length, body, 14'3 mm. ; pronotum, 13-4 mm. ; hind femur, 7 mm. 



Ceylon : Maskeliya. 



Taken from the stem of a tree in the jungle. 



Genus MAZARREDIA. 



Mnzarredia, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, np. 185, 194, 

 236 ; Hancock, Spol. Zevl. ii, 1904, pp. 108, 1-38 ; id.. Gen. Ins., 

 Orth. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 32, 42. 



Type, Mazarredia geminella, Bol. 



Range. Oriental Region, New Guinea, Fiji. 



Head not prominent, vertex about as wide as one of the eyes, 

 often narrowed in front, on each side with an oblique more or 

 less compressed carina, face slightly oblique ; fx'outal carina 

 scai-cely forked beliind the eyes, in front scarcely diverging, 

 slightly projecting between the antennae, which are long and 

 slender, and inserted slightly in front of the eyes ; maxillary palpi 

 with the terminal joints narrow, subcompressed. Pronotum 

 smooth above, truncated in front, and often hum])ed between the 

 shoulders, with obtuse humeral angles, the apex long and pointed ; 

 hind margin of the lateral lobes more or less laminated externally, 

 distinctly truncated, and acutely angulated, but not spiuose, vei-y 

 rarely depressed. Tegmina ovate ; wings perfectly developed. 

 Legs long ; front femora somewhat compressed, carinated above, 

 carinae entire or shghtly waved ; hind tibiae slightly expanded 

 towards the tips, and spinose ; first and third joints of hind tarsi 

 of equal length. 



Keif to the Species. 



1 (10) Vertex not or scarcely broader than 



the eye. 



2 (5) Median carina not crested nor siim- 



ated behind the shoulders. 



3 (4) Last two joints of palpi concolorous. sci^/^te, Bob, p. 51. 



4 (3) Last two joints of palpi yellow ... . convergens,'Br\\xm,,^.b2. 



