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ACRYDIlN.i:. 



Fig. 58. — Taratdiix 

 scmihirHtifus. 



67. Paratettix semihirsutus, Brunn. 



Faratettic semihirsutus, Brunner, Ann. Mus. 

 Genova, xxxiii, 1893, p. 110. 



Moderately stout. Vertex as bi-oad as 

 the eye ; frontal carina slightly produced, 

 rounded. Pronotuin with very small un- 

 equal grauules, not very broad between 

 the shoulders, the anterior carinas con- 

 verging behind, the median carina complete, 

 undulated behind the shoulders. Wings 

 2 mm. longer than the pronotum. Four 

 front femora compressed and dilated, not 

 undulated, rarely hairy ; hind femora with 

 the upper carina very jiarrowly serrated, 

 and terminating in a tooth before the 

 extremity ; hind tibiae brown at the base and 

 pale towards the tips. 



Length 9 mm. ; pronotum, 11 mm.; hind 

 femur, 5*2 mm. 



BuRiiA : Karen Hills. 



Genus ACRYDIUM. 



Acn/dium, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 278; Leach, Edinb. 



Encycl. ix, 1815, p. 120. 

 Acridium, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 1801, p. 30. 

 Tetri.v, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust, lus. iii, 1802, p. 284, xii, 1804, 



p. 161 ; Hancock, Spol. Zeyl ii, 1904, pp. 108, 110, 141 ; id.. 



Gen. Ins., Orth. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 52, 57. 

 Tettix, Charpentier, Germ. Zeitschr. Ent. iii, 1841, p. 315; Bolivar, 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvii, 1887, pp. 187, 195, 257. 

 Bulla, Schrank (hcc Linn.), Enum. Ins. Austr. 1781, p. 242. 



Type, Gnjllns suhulatus, Linn. 



Range. Cosmopolitan. 



Body smooth, shghtly rugose. Head not raised, vertex usually 

 broader than the eye, with the sides more or less sinuated, 

 carinated, subangulately rounded, in protile distinctly produced 

 and slightly pointed before the eyes; froutal costa generally 

 sinuated before the autennas; antenna very short, not extending 

 to the humeral angles and often shorter than the head, rather 

 thick, with from 12 to 14 joints, and inserted hardly before the 

 eyes.' Pronotum with the back ridged, rarely depressed, only 

 slightly expanded between the shoulders, truncated or augulated 

 in front, and pointed and produced behind about as far as the 

 hind femora; humeral angles very obtuse, hinder angles of the 

 lateral lobes slightly and obliquely turned outwards ; lateral 

 niaro-ins of the lower ones straight, or subsinuated at the base. 

 Legs simple, carinse of the femora rarely waved; hind tibiae linear. 



