BETODEMA. 



151 



occiput; the space between punctured, liardly depressed, not 

 carinated, and passing over into the sulcatiou between the 

 frontal carinee; the carinse of the vertex pass just within 

 the eyes, and are continued as well-marked lateral facial carina;^ 

 but do not quite extend to the extremity of the clypeus. 

 Antennae short, fiUforni. Pronotum short, broad, granulated^ 

 angulated behind, very slightly raised, with the median carina 

 and the sutures slightly marked; the principal suture placed 

 about the middle; depressed lobes higher than broad, nearly 

 rectangular behind. Tegmiua long, roundly truncate at the 

 extremity, closely reticulated, witli the intercalated nervure 

 equidistant from the costa and the radial nervure. Wings 

 shorter than the tegmina and not much longer than broad, with 

 the principal longitudinal nervures thickened, and between them 

 branching accessory nervures ; to\^•ards the base with numerous 

 parallel transverse nervures, and irregularly reticulated towards 

 the margins. Tegmina and wings sometimes abbreviated in the 

 female. Legs short, hind tibiie with nine or ten spines. 



Mem. )Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9), 1884^ 



175. Bryodema inda, Sauss. 



Bn/odeina inda. Saussure, 

 pp. 179, 181. 



Head shading into grey ; antennte and legs reddish. Pronotum 

 granulated, nearly rectangular behind, with the apex rounded off. 



Abdomen black, shining, 

 cerci red. Tegmina brownish 

 grey, with reddish nervures ; 

 wiiigs black to beyond the 

 middle, but lighter in the 

 middle of the dark area, 

 and subhyaline beyond ; the 

 principal longitudinal ner- 

 vures in the dark area are 

 much thickened, and deep 

 black. Pront and middle 

 tibiaj with small spines ; 

 hnid femora brown outside, 

 and black inside and be- 

 neath, Avith a pale band 

 before the extremity; hind 

 tibijB bright red, with black- 

 tipped spines. 



The female is described 

 by Saussure as large and 

 stout, with tegmina shorter 

 than the abdomen, and with 

 small wings. 

 Length 27-39 mm. ; tegmina, 20-38 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 

 83-87 mm. 



Fig. 107.— Br >/ oil c ma inda. 



