CERACRIS. 



Ill 



Tegmina yellowish along the inner margin ; wings hyaline. Hind 

 ° femora with a blackish band near 



the extremity, interrupted above, and 

 the sides and base beneath of the 

 terminal thickening black ; a broad 

 pale-coloured lamina on each side at 

 the extremity beneath ; hind tibiae 

 black at the base with a yellow spot 

 above ; then follows a broad yellowish 

 ring, then a black ring continued 

 nearly to the extremity by a black 

 line above and another below, the 

 rest being yellowish ; spines tipped 

 with black,' 10 on each side, in- 

 creasing in length towards the tip, 

 in addition to the usual terminal 

 ones. 



Length 32 mm. ; hind femur, 

 10 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 

 50 mm. 



SiKKiM : Darjiling. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Walker describes this insect as 

 "gracillimum," probably because the 

 body of the type has been laterally flattened. 



Fig. 89. — Ccmcris nigricornis. 



128. Ceracris versicolor, Brunn. 



Dwonia versicolor, Brunuer, Aun. Mus. Genova. xxxiii, 1893, 

 p. 120. 



Olive-brown, legs varied with black, yellow, and red. Fastigium 

 of the vertex obtuse. Antennae filiform, much longer than the 

 head and pronotum together. Pronotum wholly impress-punctate, 

 with the lateral carince slightly indicated, and the principal 

 transverse sulcus placed somewhat behind the middle. Tegmina 

 rather longer than the abdomen, the costal area smooth, green, 

 and the deflexed area brownish olive ; wings bluish-hyaline, 

 slightly clouded. Abdomen uniform olive. Hind femora 

 brownish olive, beneath red to the middle, then black, with a 

 yellow apical ring; hind tibiae black at the base, followed by 

 a yellow ring, the longitudinal sulcus above black to the extremity, 

 the sides blue, and 9 or 10 white spines tipped with black on 

 each side. 



Length 26 mm.; antennae, 12 mm.; pronotum, 5-S mm.; 

 tegmina, 22 mm.; hind femora, 16 mm. 



Burma. : Karen Hills. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



