ACRYDIU-U. ERGATETTIX. 



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Fig. 60. — Acri/diic? 

 hlpunctaium. 



Fig. 61. — Acrydium 

 quadrij)lagiai uiii. 



and often shorter, carina continuous, 

 raised and gradually arched in front, and 

 shglitly depressed behind ; front cariuse 

 .slightly waved. Wings as long as the 

 pronotum in the male ; in the female 

 much shorter and nearly obsolete. Hind 

 femora tiiickened, the carinae sharp, but 

 not undulated ; first joint of hiucl tarsi 

 with the pulvilli rounded beneath, the 

 third as long as the first two together. 



Length 7-11*5 mm.; hind femur, 5-5-5 

 mm. 



Madras ; Kodaikanal ; N. & W. Asia ; 

 Europe. 



71. Acrydium quadriplagiatum, WaVc 



THtix quadriplcK/iata, Walker, Cat. Derm. 

 Salt. B.M. V, 1871, p. 828. 



Brown, stout, granulated, apterous. 

 Vertex wider than the eye, raised above 

 the eye into an obtuse angle, and forming a 

 rounded projection between the antennte ; 

 cheeks and front of pronotum with raised 

 granules. Median carina on pronotum 

 raised between the shoulders, straight, 

 continuous, and tectiform ; carinae of front 

 area distinct ; disc with two black spots 

 on each side before the middle, the hinder- 

 most pair the larger; the apex extending 

 about as far as the hind femora and 

 covering the abdomen as far as the base 

 of the appendages. Legs paler than the 

 body, and obscurely banded with blackish ; 

 middle femora considerably compi-essed 

 and expanded, hind femora with several 

 incomplete longitudinal rows of small 

 blackish spots on the upper and lower 

 outer areas ; hind tibiae spinose ; first 

 joint of hind tarsi much longer than the 

 third, the pulvilli pointed beneath, the first 

 two of equal length, and the third Imlf 

 as long again as the second. 



NOBTH IXDIA. 



Tiipe in the British Museum. 



G-enus ERGATETTIX, nov. 



Type, Ergatettix tarsalis, sp. nov. 



Eyes moderately prominent, separated by a space equal to 



