XIPHICERA. 81 



Prothorax greatly compressed and foliaceous, covering the head 

 and a great part of the abdomen. Tegmina coriaceous, pointed 

 at the tip, with tlie hind margin oblique ; rather shorter than the 

 wings, which are hyaline, with brown tips and margins ; tip 

 pointed, hiud margin with a deep concavity below. Abdomen 

 corapi-essed, with a strong middle carina. Legs compressed, 

 carinated, hiud femora strongly serrated, hind tibiae laminated 

 and spinose above, and first joint of tarsi serrated beneath. 



Key to the Species. 



Pronotum uniform brown ruyifrons, sp. n. 



Pronotum with a vitreous spot feneatrata, Serv. 



[85. Xiphicera rugifrons, WaterJionse, sp. nov.* 



2 . Eather dark brown, the back of the head, the lateral lobes 

 of the pronotum, and the lower part of the posterior femora some- 

 what paler. Head flat in front, with numerous rugulae, two of 

 which start at a short distance front the front margin aud diverge 

 to the anterior angles. Pronotum finely asperate. Tegmina 



Fig. 7'2. — Xiphicera rugifrons. 



naiTOw, reticulate, obliquely truncate at the apex. Wings ex- 

 tending a short distance beyond the tegmina, transparent smoky- 

 yellow, the costa near the apex and the apex itself dark brown, 

 strongly arcuate towards the apex, and then sinuate, with a deep 

 rectangular incision behind, so that the apex is caudiform. Front 

 femora very broad ; the intermediate ones less so. Posterior 

 femora with seven acute teeth on the upper carina. 



Length 33 mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type in the British Museum.] 



86. Xiphicera fenestrata, Serv. 



Choreotypusfcnestratus, Serville, Ins. Ortli. 1839, p. 7oZ. 



Uniform dead-leaf colour. Thorax with well-marked oblique 

 lateral nervures, its front edge vertical and the upper extremity 

 produced into a point over the head. A perfectly round vitreous 

 spot about the middle of the side of the pronotum. 



Lenyth 20-22 mm. 



[*A figure of this species had been prepared by iilr. Kii'by, but he had not 

 named or described it. — C. O. W.] 



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