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band on the head and pronotum. Scutelkun of the vertex sub- 

 triangular, obtusely rounded off in front ; costal ridge flattened, 

 punctured. Pronotum with a median carina, considerably ex- 

 panded beyond the middle, the sntures indistinct, the hind border 

 obtusely augulated. Abdomen yellowish, with a more or less 

 suffused row of dark dorsal spots^ Hind femora rather short and 

 broad, yellowish, banded with black; hind tibia? reddisli towards 

 the base, with the apical half blue. Tegmina extending one-third 

 beyond the hind femora, subhyaline, varied with darker and lighter 

 brown, and with yellowish and whitish spots along the costa ; 

 wings greenish hyahne. 



Length 19-24 'mm.; pronotum, 3-2-4 mm.; tegmina, 18-22 

 mm. ; bind femur, 10-5- 12 mm. 



Madras: Madura; Bombay: Bandra. 



Types in the collections of Messrs, Pantel and Bolivar. 



Genus AULACOBOTHRUS. 



Anlacohotlirus, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, p. 597. 



Type, Aulacobothrus stnctus, Bol. 



Range. India. 



Vertex triangular, pointed in the male, and concave above ; 

 foveola? superior, w^ell-marked, oblongo-rhomboidal ; antennae 

 filiform ; costal ridge convex, smooth or strongly sulcated. 

 Pronotum flattened, augulated behind ; middle carina continuous, 

 only intersected by the hind sulcus, v\ ith the lateral carina? dis- 

 tinctly beyond the margins of the disk, intersected by the three 

 sulci, "and diverging behind ; deflexed lobes higher than long, with 

 the hinder angle straight. Tegmina completely developed, or 

 abbreviated ; mediastinal area with an adventitious nervure, which 

 is complete in the male, and sinuated, extendmg to the front 

 maro-in of the tegmina; nervures of the scapular area oblique, 

 sinuated, regularly reticulated, and more dilated in the male than 

 in the female ; intercalated nervure more or less distinct ; ulnar 

 nervures diverging. Wings fully developed or rudimentary. 

 Hind femora above distinctly s])otted, with the outer area slightly 

 convex ; hind tibia? red ; the two inner spurs of the tibia? dis- 

 tinctly marginal, the apical spur straight, only curved at the tip. 

 Metasternal lobes produced behind the foveola?, and contiguous in 

 both sexes, or rarely, very slightly separated in the female. First 

 abdominal segment with" an open tympanum on the side; svipra- 

 aual lamina in the male acutely triangular ; cerci short, conical ; 

 valves of the ovipositor short, projecting. 



[The species of this genus are only known from descriptions 

 from whicli it has been found to be impossible to draw up a 

 key.] 



