140 



CEDIPODIXjE. 



bands, the last just before the tip ; sometimes the inner surface 

 is bluish ; jiind tibiae blue, with a pale ring at the base. 



Leiu/th 17-24 mm.: tegmina, 18-23 mm.; hind femur, 7- 

 13 mm. 



CETLOIf. 



Tyj)^ in the Geneva Museum. 



161. Dittopternis venusta, Wall-. 



(Edipoda venmta, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M, iv, 1870, p. 740. 

 Ditto})ternis venusta, Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxx (1), 1888, 

 p. 40. 



Brown, paler beneath. Vertex with four diverging rows of 

 pale granules running backwards from between the eyes ; those 

 in the two middle rows largest ; a 

 blacliish band runs backwards from 

 each eye over the occiput and part of 

 the pronotutn, bordered above and 

 below by a slight yellow line ; antennae 

 very long, tawny at the base, then 

 banded with black and white, with 

 a long white space not extending to 

 the tip. Pronotum rugose, granulated 

 and strongly carinated, cub by the 

 principal sulcus before the middle, 

 obtusely angulated behind, with the 

 tip rounded ; deflexed lobes quadran- 

 gular behind. Tegmina long, narrow, 

 with the basal half and costa brown, 

 \^'ith a large yellow blotch at one- 

 fourth of the length extending half 

 across the tegmina, and smaller 

 yellowish spots aloug the. costa and 

 middle ; the outer area subhyaline. 

 Wings hyaline, yellow at the base, 

 with a broad suffused blackish" band beyond. Abdomen yellow, 

 carinated, with a black tapering- median band above, liot ex- 

 tending to the tip. Hind femora tawny, with black transverse 

 bauds ; hind tibiae black at base, followed by a light yellow band, 

 then blue ; spines yellow, tipped with black"; terminal spines and 

 tarsi reddish. 



Length 25 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 53 mm. 



S. India. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Fig. 100. 



Bittojiteriiis venusta. 



102. Dittopternis zebrata, Sauss. 



Dittopternis zehyata, Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9), 1884, 

 pp. l-irj, lL'6; xxx (1), 1888, p. 44. 



Fulvous, irrorated with brown, strongly rugose and granulated. 



