ACKOTYLUS. — SPIIINGOXOTUS. 



153 



Hind femora testaceous on the inner side, where there are two 

 black patclies ; hind knees black, hind tibiae yellow, much shorter 

 than the hind femora, the spines tipped with black. Tegmina 

 Mith the basal half light brown, except a brown costal stripe and 

 a middle stripe of darker brown spots and dots ; this stripe extends 

 along the apical half, which is hyaline ; there is a triangular 

 testaceous spot in the front margin about one-third from the base. 

 Hind wings hyaline bright reddish-rose at the base, with a rather 

 broad, lunate, brown spot on the disk ; there are a few small 

 brown spots along the costal margin and two at the apex. 



Length 23 mm. ; tegmina, 22 mm. 



N. Bengal : Ceylo:n^. 



Type in the British Museum.] 



177. Acrotylus humbertianus, Sauss. 



Acroti/lus humhertianus, Saussure, Mem. See. Geneve, xxviii (9), 



1884, p. 189. 

 a^dipoda injiciia, var. /3, AValker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 



p. 742. 



[Fulvous grey, whitish beneath, pubescent. Body somewhat 

 smooth ; vertex a little pi'ominent. Pro- 

 notum finely carinate ; prozona with two 

 fuscous fascise, the lateral margin white 

 below. Tegmina with two oblique white 

 fasciae or spots, the discoidal area hyaline 

 beyond the middle in front, the trans- 

 verse nervures somewhat tinted with 

 fuscous ; no spurious veins ; the areoles 

 large ; the posterior intercalate space 

 with a line of fuscous spots. Wings 

 hyaline, yellow at the base ; the radial 

 area with a semilunar fuscous fascia. The 

 posterior femora fasciate. 



Lemjtli, 5i IS mm., <S , 14 mm.; 

 Fig. 108. tegmina, $ , 10 mm., S , 1(^5 mm. 



Acrotylus kumbcri'uaiiis. Ceylox.I 



Genus SPHINGONOTUS. 



Sphiiiffonottis, Fieber, Kelch, Orthopt. (^berscliles., 1852, p. 2. 

 ^phhiyonotiis, Fieber, Lotos, iii, 18o3, p. 124. 

 Sphinctonotus, Fischer, Orth. Eur. 1853, pp. 51:, 297. 



Type, Gryllus Locusta ccerulans, L. 



llanrje. Cosmopolitan. 



Body slender, punctured ; colour grey, pale beneath. Scutellum 

 of the vertex ovate, sloping, concave, subcarinaled ; antenn;^ 

 longer than the head and pronotum together ; frontal ridge 

 frequently sulcated. Pronotum consti-icted in front, rectangular 



