QUIROGUESIA. 



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aiiteniiaj only half as broad as between the eyes abov^e, arched, 

 punctured on the vertex. Pronotum with a raised continuous 

 carina, slightly intersected by the principal sulcus about the 

 middle, expanded behind the sulcus, with the hinder extremity 

 obtusely angulated and the tip rounded. Tegmina long, narrow, 

 slightly expanded on the costa near the base, the hind margin 

 slightly oblique and rounded off into the inner margin ; coriaceous 

 to the middle, then subhj^aline, regularly reticulated, with scattered 

 dusky markings, the division between the two halves being almost 

 perpendicular ; wings coloured, with the outer third hyaline, 

 tipped with dusky. Hind femora not serrated. 



154. Guiroguesia blanchardiana, Sauss. 



Quirof/uesia bridle), var. blanchardiana, Saussure, Mem. Sec. 

 Geneve, xxx (1), 1888, p. 35 ; Bianchi, Pram. Loz. Ross. Imp. 

 1902, p. 252. 



Head bluish grey, with obscure reddish markings, of which the 

 most constant are two stripes on the vertex. Pronotum brown, 



generally with reddish mark- 

 ings at the base and whitish 

 blotches on the pleura ; 

 median carinanearly straight, 

 very slightly arched and not 

 nnich raised. Abdomen black 

 above, carinated, more or 

 less pale towards the tip. 

 Tegmina with the basal half 

 more or less varied with 

 lighter and darker brown 

 and grey, apical half hyaline, 

 witii patches of the nervures 

 more or less broadly black 

 and the cells slightly in- 

 fuscated. Wings greenish 

 yellow or red in the basal 

 half, bordered outside by a 

 nearly straight black band, 

 which then curves inwards 

 round the hind margin to 

 the anal angle ; beyond this 

 is a broad hyaline band, the 

 tip of the wings being black, 

 except that the cells of the 

 terminal row are hyaline. 

 Hind femora black, with pale bands, sometimes almost entirely 

 pale on the outer side ; knees black ; hind tibiaj reddish or 

 yellowish, the extreme base black, often followed by a pale band ; 

 with about 10 small I'egular black-tipped spines on each side. 



Fi". 96. — Qiiirogucsia hlanchardiana. 



