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Genus COPTOTETTIX. 



Coptotettix, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 188, 195, 

 287 ; Hancock, Spol. Zevl. ii, 1904, pp. 108, 111, 152; id., CJen. 

 Ins., Ortb. Tetiig. 1906, pp. 52, 65. 



Type, Coptotettix as^ieratus, Bol. 



Ramie. Indian Eegion, Australia, West and East Africa. 



Body more or less rugose or granulated. Head not prominent, 

 A'ertex smooth, narrowed in front, the frontal carinulae interrupted 

 internally, or recurved ; frontal costa rounded, more or less 

 produced ; antennas long, filiform, inserted between the eyes. 

 Pronotum truncated in front, produced behind only as far as 

 the hind femora ; or else very long and pointed ; median carina 

 almost always depressed, very rarely ridged. Tegmina oblong : 

 wings often abbreviated. IVont femora generally long, with 

 parallel carinae ; hind femora long, with the carinse entire or 

 crenulated ; first joint of hind tarsi longer than the third. 



Keij to the Sj^ecies. 



Tegmina and -wings absent. 



Colour black ; hind femora with a 



tooth above before the extremity . . 

 Colour luteous ; hind femora with no 



tooth above before the e.-?tremity . . 

 Tegmina and wings present. 

 Pronotum not extending beyond the 



tip of the abdomen; wings more or 



less rudimentary. 

 Median carina of pronotum ridged. . . . 

 Median carina of pronotum depressed. 

 Pronotum and wings extended beyond 



the abdomen. 



Pronotum \evy rugose testacetis, Pol., p. 77. 



Pronotum only slightly rugose interrvpfus, Bol., p. 78 



kitifrojts, Brunn., p. 74. 



acideterm{n(it2/s,livunn.f 

 [p. 75. 



foxsulafiis, Bob, p. 76. 

 capitatiis, Bol., p. 76. 



77. Coptotettix latifrons, Brunn. 



C'nptotetfic lat/'frong, Brunner, Ann, Mus. Geneva, xxxiii, 1893, 

 p. 112, pi. V, fig. 44. 



Black, stout, rugose. Vertex about twice as broad as the eye ; 



Fig. ()7. — Cojitotettix latifrons, 9- 



antennte slender, inserted between the eyes ; the frontal carinae 

 distinctly converging. Pronotum with the carina ridged and 



