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tryxalix.t:. 



femora slender, as long as the abdomen, red or yellow, with dark 

 bands or spots ; tibiae red or blue, with yellow and brown bands, 

 spinose ; hind tibiae with small arolia. Pirst abdominal segment 

 with an open tympanum ; supra-anal lamina in the male divided 

 from the anal segment by a transverse sulcus ; anal segment 

 longitudinally sulcated, and the lamina rounded ; valves of ovi- 

 positor rather long, free, unarmed. 



Key to the Species. 



Apical half of hind tibiae red taimdus, F. " 



Apical half of hind tibiae blue , affinis, Bol. 



141. .ffiolopus tamulus, F. 



GnjUus tamulus, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. Siippl. 1798, p. 195. 

 Gryllus dorsalis, Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb. v, 1815, p. 229. 

 Gomphocerus t}-icolon'pes, Burmeister, Handb. Ent. ii. 1838, p. 649. 

 Epacromia simulafrix, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 

 p. 773. 



Green, brown, or reddish, generally with two parallel brown 

 stripes on the vertex, running within each eye to the back of the 

 head ; and a broad brown band running from the back of each 

 eye to the end of the pronotum, and ex- 

 tending over more or less of the plern'a, 

 which is then marked with several white 

 spots ; the upper side of the dark band is 

 generally bordered by a slender white line 

 in front, which afterwards intersects it, 

 turning obliqitely outwards. Tegmina rather 

 long, varied with brown and subhyaline ; 

 mediastinal area with two alternate long 

 brown and whitish spaces, the outermost of 

 each broader ; below the first brown space 

 runs a bright green stripe to the first white 

 Fig. 92.— ^Eoloinis stripe ; and below the green stripe are often 

 tcrmiilus. some small white spots on a light brown 



ground. The outer part of the tegmina is 

 generally subhyaline, more or less spotted with brown ; wings 

 greenish hyaline, more or less dusky towards the hind margin. 

 Hind femora slender, as long as or longer than the abdomen; 

 green, yellow, or reddish, transversely banded with brown ; hind 

 tibiae yellow towards the base, with a blackish spot before and 

 behind, blue towards the middle, and red towards the extremity. 

 LengtJi 18 mm. 

 Madras. 

 Ti/jM of E. slmulatrLv in the British Museum. 



142. ^olopus affinis, Bol. 



Epavromia affinis, Bolivar, Ann. See. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, p. GOO. 

 iiufous-brown, sometimes with a rather irregular pale median 



