152 cedipodinjE. 



India (teste Saussui-e) ; Tibet : Dakar. 



The Tibetan specimens are not so dark in the wings as 

 Saussure's description suggests the Indian specimens to be, 

 Bianchi rightly observes that the Indian examples are probabl}' 

 Himalayan. 



Genus ACROTYLUS. 

 Acrotylus, Fieber, Lotos, iii, 1853, p. 125. 

 Type, Gri/Hi(s instibrictis, Scop. 



Range. S. Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia. 



Size rather small. Body pubescent, prouotum stouter than the 

 abdomen. Antennae filiform, variable in length. Head short, rather 

 large ; eyes rounded, prominent ; costal ridge rather broadly 

 sulcated, becomiug narrower in front, and frequently acuminated 

 or constricted on the vertex ; scutellum of the vertex triangular, 

 concave. Pronotum short, more or less constricted in front, with 

 the hind margin rounded or obtusely triangular, distinctly cari- 

 nated throughout, with the carina generally intersected by the 

 front sulcus, and also by the typical sulcus at or before the 

 middle ; deflexed lobes much higher than long, with the hinder 

 angle rounded off, not produced, and the liind margin nearly 

 straight. Tegmina narrow, with the apical area subhyaline ; the 

 costa expanded near the base, and the costal area divided almost 

 equally longitudinally by the intercalated nervure ; the outer 

 intercalated nervures frequently obsolete; median nervure absent. 

 Wings hyaline, generally red or yello^^• at the base, with a dark 

 curved central band. Hind femora generally yellowish, with 

 blackish bands or spots above, and black on the inner side ; hind 

 tibia? more or less blue, with the terminal spurs unequal. 



Key to the Species. 



[Wings red at the base inficita, "Walk. 



Wings yellow at the base hiunbertianits, Saus,s.] 



176. Acrotylus inficita, Wall-. 



QSdipoda injicita, Walker, Cat. Derm, Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, p. 742. 



[Light brown, testaceous beneath. Head short ; tip of the 

 vertex conical, concave, with a carina on each side ; the four 

 carinJB of the front well defined, the lateral ones diverging much 

 towards the clypeus ; eyes elliptical ; antenna? blackish towards 

 the tips. Pronotum short, with a distinct carina ; on each side 

 a black subquadrate patch, bordered with testaceous, and in- 

 cluding a callus of that colour ; hind border rounded, not 

 elongated. Abdomen testaceous, as long as the hind femora. 



