60 ACETDTINvE. 



59. Euparatettix parvus, Uanc. 



Eiiparatettix ixirims, Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pp. 108, 145. 



Body small, slender, rugose. Head slightly rounded, A'ertex 

 narrower than the eye, not produced. Frontal costa flattened 

 between the eyes, and slightly convex between the antennae ; the 

 latter moderately long, lilifiorm. Pronotum flattened and rugulose 

 above, median carina irregular, lateral carina well marked in front 

 of humeral angles ; several small subsidiary carinas in the disc. 

 Tegmina oval, rounded at the tips ; wiuga extending considerably 

 beyond the pronotum. Hind tarsi spinose, brown, with two slight 

 pale bands. 



Length 9*7 mm.; pronotum, 8 mm.; hind femur, 3"9 ram. 



Ceylon : Elephant Pass, Northern Province (E. E. Green). 



Genus PARATETTIX. 



Paratetti.r, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 187, 195, 

 :?70; Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pp. 108, 110, 144; id., Gen. 

 Ins., Orth. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 52, 55 ; Jacobs & Bianchi, Pram. 

 Loznos. Ross. Imp. 1902, pp. 164, 175, 211. 



Type, Tetrix meridionalis, Ramb. 



Range. Cosmopolitan. 



Body granulose, slightly rugose. Vertex horizontally not 

 broader than the eye, carinated in the middle, more or less con- 

 cave on the sides, bounded in front by sinuous carinulse, and 

 scarcely produced between the eyes ; frontal carina between the 

 eyes curved, sloping towards the base, rarely sinuated ; antennse 

 filiform, long, 14-jointed, placed scarcely before the eyes ; palpi 

 not dilated, concolorous. Pronotum rather flattened, truncate in 

 front, generally produced behind beyond the hind femora, the 

 middle carina slightly raised, the humeral angles obtuse, lateral 

 lobes bi sinuated behind, the lower sinus straight or pointed, the 

 hinder lateral angle turned dowu, with the tip rounded off. 

 Tegmina oval, punctured: wings generally longer than the 

 pronotum. Front femora compressed, carinated above, usually 

 undulated ; hind tibiae with the apical third distinctly expanded 

 aud spinose; first joint of hind tarsi longer than the third, 

 pulvilli acuminate, flattened below, the third pulvillus generally 

 longer than the first two together. 



Key to the Sjyecies. 



1 (2) Pronotum without a median 



carina lalteatus, "Walk., p. 61. 



2 (1) Pronotum with a median 



carina. 



3 (4) Middle carina of pronotum 



depressed in front, and ceasing 

 before reacliing the front 

 margin scaher, Thunb., p. 62. 



