GASTr.IM ARGUS. — LOCUSTA. 



145 



168. Gastrimargus transversus, Thunh. 



Grylhis trcmsversns, Thunberir, M«m. Acad. Petorsb. v, 1815, 



p. 283 ; ix, 1824, pp. 396, 412. 

 (Edipoda citrina, Buriueister, Haudb. Ent. ii, 1838, p. 645. 

 (Edaleus mannorcdus. var. viinor, SaLissure, Mem. Soc. Geneve^ 



XXX (1), 1888, p. 39, 



Gi'een, aiitenniB reddish. Behind each eye a pale spot runs to 

 the back of the head, bordered above and below with black, 



which is generally continuous 

 on the front of the pro- 

 notum ; in the most brightly 

 coloured specimens there is 

 an ill-defined pale band below 

 the black, and below this 

 again a black patch from 

 the back of the head to the 

 middle of the pleura, with a 

 pale spot in front and behind. 

 Pronotum acutely angulaied 

 behind, with a strong pale 

 median carina, sometimes 

 bordered with black, or with 

 a black spot on each side 

 at the extremity. Abdomen 

 greenish. Tegmina long and 

 narrow, the inner margin 

 green, the rest of the tegmina 

 brown to tlie middle, with 

 whitish markings, especially 

 a transverse one near the 

 base ; the outer half of the 

 tegmina hyaline, generally 

 more or less blotched with brown. Wings shorter than the 

 tegmina, bright sulphur-yellow at the base, with a black central 

 band curving round to the anal angle ; beyond this, the wing is 

 hyaline, more or less blackisli at the tip. Hind femora long 

 and slender, greenish or yellowish, spotted and dotted with 

 black, and serrulated above ; hind tibiae red, often shading into 

 greenish at the base, with the spines tipped with black. 



Length, body, 30-45 mm. ; hind femora, 19-25 ram. ; expanse 

 of tegmina, 70-85 mm. 



Kashmir : Baltistan ; Xepal ; United Provinces : Garhwal ; 

 Assam : Sylhet ; Bengal ; Madras : Shevaroy Hills ; Java ; 

 Celebes. 



Fig. 103. — Gastrimargus transversus. 



Genus LOCUSTA. 



LocHsia, Limifeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i, 1758, p. 



Enum. lus. Austr. 1781, p. 246, 

 Gri/llus, Fabi'icius, Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 287. 



431 ; Schrank, 



