HETEROPTERNIS. 141 



Occiput with two oblique lines of granules. Pronotum with the 

 tip not very acute, the margins slightly waved, the hinder angle 

 of the hinder lobes rather narrow, extending obliquely backwards 

 Avitli the hinder margin slightly concave. Tegmina dotted and 

 spotted with black, and dotted with grey at the tip. Wings 

 hyaline, with longitudinal brown nervures, yellow at tlie base, 

 followed by a suffused brown band, and with the margin brown, 

 streaked with hyaline in the male. Hind tibite blue. 



Length 20-25 mm.; tegmina, 20-26 mm. 



India ; Burma.. 



Genus HETEROPTERNIS. 



Hetercqifcrnis, Stal, Recens. Orth. i, 1873, pp. 117, 128; Saussiire, 

 Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxvhi (9), 1884, p. 129; xxx (1), 1888, 

 pp. 19, 45. 



Type, Acrydimn respond ens, A\^alk. 



liange. Oriental Region, Africa. 



Body rather slender. Head smooth or slightly granulated ; 

 vertex of the scutellum broad behind, narrowed and truncated in 

 front, costal ridge sulcated, tempora oblong. Pronotum not 

 much longer than broad, slightly compi-essed in front, and with 

 the typical sulcus placed somewhat before the middle ; hind 

 border rectangular. Tegmina long, narrow, brown, speckled and 

 blotched with subhyaline ; wings hj^aline, often more or less 

 clouded, but with no dark curved band. Hind tibite red, claws 

 very unequal, incurved. 



Keg to the Species. 



Pronotum unicolorous resjiojidens, Walk. 



Pronotum paler behind partita, Walk. 



163. Heteropternis respoiidens, Wcdlc 



Acn/diiim respondens, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iv, 



1859, p. 223. 

 Heteropternis pyrrhoscelis, Stal, Recens. Orth. i, 1873, p. 128 ; 



Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9j, 1884, pp. 129, 130; 



xxx (1), 1888, p. 46. 



Eufo-testaceous, varied with black. Head rather smooth, lateral 

 carinse slender, frontal ridge punctured ; antennae brown, paler at 

 the base, filiform, longer than the head and pronotum. Pronotiuu 

 velvety, paler or darker above, with a continuous median carina, 

 cut by the principal sulcus before the middle ; the front somewhat 

 constricted, and the pleura marked with a large square black 

 spot, behind which is a round white callous one ; detiexed lobes 

 higher than broad, curving backwards and upwards ; hind border of 

 pronotum nearly rectangular, rounded at the extremity. Tegmina 



