TARATETTrX. 



63 



hind tarsi with the two basal piUvilU acutely pointed at the tip, 

 the third pulvillus rather longer than the second. 



Length 7-10 mm.; pronotum, 9-11 mm.; hind femur, 5-5- 

 6*5 mm. 



Madras : Madura ; Borneo ; Philippixes. 



Type in the British Museum. 



63. Paratettix (?) dorsifer, Walh. 



TettAx donifem, Walker, Cat. Derm. Sak. B.M. v, 1871, p. 825. 



Fawn-colour, 



each side a 

 the median 

 behind the 



Eyes very prominent, much raised above the 

 vertex, which is narrower than an eye, 

 slightly convergent in front, and con- 

 siderably produced between the antennae, 

 which are placed below the eyes ; the 

 carina of the vertex is imperfect above. 

 Front area of pronotum transversely ridged 

 and tuberculate, with the carina much 

 raised, the hinder part of the carina 

 depressed and serrated ; on 

 short raised carina between 

 carina and the shoulders ; 

 shoulders a triangular black mark on each 

 side, the hinder part of the pronotum gran- 

 ulose and very slender, extending much be- 

 yond the hind" femora. Tegmina oval, rather 

 narrow; wings extending beyond the 

 pronotum, narrowly rounded at the ex- 

 tremity, and with light and dark spots 

 along "the costa. Front femora widened 



and flattened, hind femora rugose and tuberculate. 

 Bombay. 

 The type in the British Museum does not agree well with 



Walker's description, but there is no other specimen to which it 



could apply. 



Fig. 55. — Paratettix 

 dorsifer. 



64. Paratettix cingalensis, Wallc 



Tettic cingalensis, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. v, 1871, p_. 827. __ 

 Paratettix variec/atiis, Bolivar, Ami. Soc. Ent. Belpf. xxxi, Ibbi, 

 pp. 188, 272, 280 ; Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, pp. 108, 144. 



Brown or ferruginous, or grey, varied ^vith white. Head 

 slio-htly raised, vertex truncated in front, as broad as the eye, 

 frontal costa sloping towards the base in front. Pronotum much 

 longer than the hind femora, ruguh)se punctate, sometimes spotted 

 with brown and white; the middle carina compressed, continuous, 

 strongly marked, raised and regularly arched in front ; a short 

 carina on each side on the anterior margin of the front lobe, each 



