AULACOBOTHKUS. — STATTEODEIIL'S. 127 



front legs with numerous brown I'ings, tlie hind legs blotched with 

 brown ; hiud femora longer than the abdomen, with the lower 

 sulcus wholly bright red ; hind tibiae shorter tlian the femora, 

 bright red, with the base narrowly brown, and with two or three 

 indistinct spots on the side near the base ; spines brownish, the 

 inner spurs unequal, tlie outer nearly twice as long as the inner ; 

 9 short spines on the outer, and 10 on the inner margin, red, 

 tipped with black ; tarsi pale brown. 



Length 23 mm. ; pronotum, 5 mm. ; tegmina, 25 mm. ; hind 

 femur, 14 mm. 



SiKKiM : Kurseong. 



Type in the collection of Father Xavas. 



Genus STAURODERUS. 



Stauroderus, Bolivar, Ann. Sci. Nat. Porto, iv, 1897, p. 224, v, 1898, 

 p. 4. 



Type, StenohotJirus morii, Brunn. (nee Tab.). 



Range. Europe, Asia, N. & W. Africa. 



Vertex subtriangular, obtuse ; foveolce superior, narrow, well- 

 marked ; antennae filiform ; front hardly oblique, frontal ridge 

 carinated. Pronotum with the lateral carinae sharply augulated 

 inwards before the middle ; tegmina longer than the abdomen, the 

 mediastinal area slightly expanded on the costa near the base, 

 and not extending beyond the middle of the tegmina ; wings 

 hyaline. 



149. Stauroderus bicolor, Char p. 



Gryllus bicolor, Charpentier, Hor. See. Ent. Ross. 1825, p. 161. 



Eeddish-brown, greenish, or black, with a slight median carina 

 on the head and pronotum, which are lined 

 with black, or are more largely black, the 

 white augulated lateral carinae of the pro- 

 notum being usually very distinctly 

 marked. Antennae half as long again 

 as the head and pronotum together, and 

 of equal length in both sexes. Tegmina 

 subhyaline, greenish along the costa, 

 sometimes more or less varied with pale 

 and dusky spots ; wings hyaline, some- 

 times clouded at the tips. Legs generally 

 yellowish or reddish, femora often with 

 dusky streaks or markings ; tibiae with 

 about 12 small black-tipped spines on 

 each side. Abdomen brown, paler be- 

 Fig.93. neath, and sometimes tipped with red. 



Stauroderus bicolor. Length 15-24 mm.; pronotum, 2'5-4-8 



mm. ; tegmina, 12-21 mm. 



EUEOPE ; N. AfBICA ; India ; BuBMA ; ChINA ; JaPAX. 



