SPADOTETTIX. HEDOTETTIX. 71 



73. Spadotettix fletcheri, Ilanc. 



SpadotettixJIefcIieri, Hancock. Spol. Zeyl. vi, 1910, p. 147, figs. 1, 2. 



Small, apterous, dark brown. Vertex wide, produced beyond 

 the eyes, with a projecting median carina, face obHque, eyes 

 small ; antenniij slender, with 13 or 14 joints, inserted opposite 

 the anterior lower angle of the eyes. Pronotum granulated, 

 median carina biundulate. Front and middle femora compressed, 

 hind femora with the lower margin " triundulate, bearing a small 

 median lobe"; hind tibia? black, with a slight yellow ring behind 

 the knee; carina? serrate-spinose ; first joint ofhind tarsi slightly 

 longer than the third ; first joint wiUi the first and seTOnd 

 pulviili pointed, the third more flattened below. 



Length 8 mm. 



Ceylon : Madulsima, 3500 ft. 



" On mossy rocks." 



Genus HEDOTETTIX. 



Hedotettix, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 18S, 195, 

 283; Hancock, Spol. Zevl. ii, 1901, pp. 108, 111, 148; id.. Gen. 

 Ins., Orth. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 52, 60. 



Type, Acridium (TettLv) gracile, De Haan. 



Range. Indian Eegion, Australia, Africa, Madagascar. 



Body slender, nearly smooth or only slightly granulated. Head 

 not prominent, vertex not broader than the eye, carinated in the 

 middle, generally expanded and transversely carinated in front, 

 frontal costa arched between the antennae, not sinuated between 

 the eyes; antennae filiform, rather short, inserted between the 

 eyes. Pronotum truncated and obtusely augulated in front, long 

 and pointed behind, the median carina slightly compressed and 

 continuous ; hinder angle of the lateral lobes very narrowly 

 rotund-truncate, or slightly pointed. Tegmina rounded at the 

 tip, rarely pointed ; wings generally as long as the pronotum. 

 Legs compressed, front femora entire or indistinctly undulated, 

 hind femora with the carinte granulated ; tibiae regularly spined ; 

 first joint of the hind tarsi long, the third joint shorter than the 

 first. 



Keg to the Species. 



1 (2) Frontal carina widely sulcate, the rami 



widened between the eyes gracilis, De Haan. 



2 (1) Frontal carinte nearly straight, not 



suddenly divergent between the eyes attemiatus.. Hanc. 



Species incertae sedis lineifera, A^'alk. 



