PTEEXOSCIPtTA. 



135 



a coiitimious median carina, pronotum slightly pi-oduced and 



obtusely rounded behind. Tegmina narrow, brown, slighUy ex- 

 panded on the costa near the base 

 and rounded at the extremity ; 

 two large pale spaces, one just 

 beyond the costal expansion, and 

 the other, paler, just beyond the 

 middle ; the busal area is very 

 closely reticulated and speckled 

 with grey ; the outer area is 

 brown, varied with subhyaline 

 spaces, often forming short trans- 

 verse lines and obliquely reticu- 

 lated. Wings rose-colour on the 

 basal half, then clouded hyaline, 

 darkest towards the margins, 

 which become brown towards the 

 apex, .soraetiiiies forming two ir- 

 regular spots, lliud femora buff 

 or bluish grey outside, with black 

 spots ; banded with black above 

 and black on the hiner side, with 

 two pale bands before the black 

 knees ; hind tibise black, banded 



with yellow at the base and blue beyond, with 9 or 10 black 



spines ; hind tarsi yellow. 



Length 22-;30 mm.; expanse of tegmina, 46-58 mm. 



CEYIiOJf. 



Types in the British Museum. 



[The illustration is taken from the type of P. saturata, Walk.J 



Fig. 97. 



Ptcriioscirta riiK-fifent itr. 



156. Pternoscirta caliginosa, De Haan. 



Acridium {(Edipoda) cff/'/V//ViOs?«??i,DeIIaan, Temmiiick, 'Serhandel.. 



Oi-tb. 1842, p. 161, pl.'xxi, tig. n. 

 Ftrnwscirfd caliqinom, Saussure, INIem. Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9), 



1884, pp. 127, '128. 



Eugose and granulated, reddish, irregularly marked with 

 blackisli. Head with the scutellum of the vertex strongly con- 

 tracted above tlie antennae, the carina^ then gradually diverging : 

 the lateral curved carina) running from between the eyes and 

 antenna) to the end of the clypeus well marked ; a pale spot 

 Avithin each eye, and another, bordered above and below with 

 black, on the pleura. Pronotum with the median carina strongly 

 marked, but nearly straight, cut by the principal sulcus distinctly 

 before the middle ; hind border obtusely angidated. Abdomen 

 yellowish, cariuated above. Tegmina long, narrow, brown, mottled 

 with yellowish grey, often with two pale spaces as in the last 

 species. Wings much longer than broad, hyaline, yellow toward)* 



