112 TRTXALINvE. 



129. Ceracris deflorata, Bnmn. 



Duronia dejiorata, Brunuer, Auii. Mus. Genova, xxxiii, 1893, 



p. \-m. 



Dull olive, the femora not ringed. Vertex less obtuse than in 

 C. versicolor. Pronotum above nearly smooth, with the lateral 

 carinse well marked, bordered with straight black bands and 

 diver2;ing behind the transverse sulcus, which is placed in the 

 middle. Tegniina one-fourth longer than the abdomen, with 

 the costal area smooth, pale, tlie deflexed area brown ; wings 

 yellowish-hyaline, slightly clouded. Hind femora testaceous, 

 dai'ker at the tip ; beneath suifused with red, with no ring. 

 Hind tibiiB black at the base, followed by a yellow ring, then 

 wholly blue, with 11 or 12 black-tipped spines on each side. 



Length 2S nnn. ; antennae, 12-5 mm.; pronotum, 5*5 mm.; 

 tegmina, 27 mm,; hind femur, 16 mm. 



Burma : Bhamo. 



2^yj)e in tlie Genoa Museum. 



Genus MECOSTETHUS. 



Mecostethus, Fieber, Kelch, Orth. Oberschles. 1852, p. 1. 

 Parapleurus, Fischer, Orth. Eur. 1853, pp. 297, 363. 



Type, Orijllus j^uirapUurus, Hagenb. 



Bange. Europe, Asia. 



Eastigium of the vertex horizontal, broader than long, rounded 

 at the sides, and roundly truncate in front, the surface depressed, 

 witli a central carina, very slightly continued on the rest of the 

 head ; f oveolre obsolete. Antenme filiform, twice as long as head and 

 pronotum together in the male, and scarcely equal to the pronotum 

 in the female ; eyes prominent, subrotuud ; face slightly oblique ; 

 frontal carina rather broadly sulcated from the middle ocellus to 

 the clypeus, Pronotum with the median carina strongly marked ; 

 the lateral carinse obsolete ; cut by three transverse sutures, the 

 hindmost about the middle ; the deflexed lobes slightly oblique 

 behind, and the lower edge slightly sinuated ; pronotum hardly 

 rounded in front, and only shghtly behind. Tegmina narrow, 

 longer than the abdomen, with the mediasterual area extending 

 nearly to the rounded tip ; the base not expanded, with an 

 intercalated nervure in the middle of the discoidal area. Wings 

 perfectly developed, rather narrow. Hind femora moderately 

 thickened, as long as the abdomen. Subgenital lamina of male 

 long, pointed ; valves of the ovipositor long, slender, and 

 pointed. 



