MADUREA. OCHRILIDIA. 115 



female transverse ; foveolse subtrapezoidal, inferior, not visible 

 from above ; front convex, slightly oblique in the female. 

 Antenna; filiform. Pronotum constricted in the middle, with tlie 

 hind sulcus placed scarcely beyond the middle ; the median carina 

 slender, continuous, intersected by the hind sulcus ; tlie lateral 

 carinje obliterated in the middle. Lobes of the mesosternum 

 transverse, separated by a rather narrower space ; lobes of the 

 metasteruum contiguous, or, in the female, separated by a short 

 space behind the foveolse. Tegmina extending to the middle of 

 the abdomen. Hind femora thickened, with the outer area 

 convex. 



133. Madurea cephalotes, Bol. 



Madiirea cephalotes, Bolivar, Arm. Soc. Eiit. FraDce, Ixx, 1902, 

 p. 597, pi. ix, fig. 3i>. 



Pale yello\\', varied with brown and ferruginous. Head large, 

 tumid in front in the female, the tip of the front punctured, the 

 median carina expanded towards the tip, punctured and sub- 

 sulcated ; vertex with a very slight median carina. Pronotum 

 more subreflexed in the male than in the female ; the back pale, 

 or with a broad pale central fascia, the sides reddisli, with the 

 hind border obtusely and roundly angulate ; the deflexed lobes 

 brown in the middle, with a pale submedian callosity. Tegmina 

 in the male scarcely extending beyond the middle of the femora ; 

 in the female shorter, lanceolate, with the radial area spotted 

 with brown. Hind femora rather shining, with three narrow 

 reddish-brown bands, more or less obliterated externally, and the 

 knees reddish brown ; hind tibiae blue, with a pale ring at the base, 

 and the condyle infuscated. Abdomen varied with brown, with a 

 pale median longitudinal stripe ; supra-anal lamina of the male 

 triangular, with the median sulcus narrowed posteriorly, and sub- 

 sinuated behind on each side near the tip ; cerci short, conical ; 

 subgenital lamina obtusely produced ; valves of the ovipositor 

 sinuated before the tip, but not dentated. 



Length 9-17 mm. ; pronotum, 2 mm. ; tegmina, 6'5 mm. ; hind 

 femur, 6-5-9 mm. 



Madras: Madura. 



Tijpes in the collections of JNlessrs. Pautel and Bolivar. 



Genus OCHRILIDIA. 



Ochrilidin, Stal, l-feceus. OrUi. i, 187o, pp.92, 101; Rrunner, Prodr. 



Eur. Orth. 1882, pp. 83, 91. 

 Brachycrotaphus, Kraiiss, Sitz. Akad. "NViss. Wien, 3Iath.-iiat. CI. 



Ixxvi (i), 1877, p. 47. 



Type, Opomola trj/xalicera, Fisch. 



Range. S. Europe, jV. & W. Africa, W. Asia, India. 

 Head as long as the pronotum ; fastigium of the vertex produced 



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