166 PTRGOMOEPHIN^. 



towards the tip ; eyes ovoid, dark brown. Pronotum greyish, 

 smooth, sliglitly ridged in front, with three black tubercles on the 

 hinder edge and some smaller ones beyond them ; three small 

 tubercles, and a black spot on the sides, and a yellowish-white 

 marginal line from the front to the hind border. Sternum pale 

 yellow, smooth, with ten black spots. Tegraina rather shorter 

 than the abdomen, nervures scarcely visible, and only a single 

 row of inconspicuous tubercles. Wings hyaline, half as long as 

 the tegmina. Abdomen smooth, brown above, and yellow spotted 

 with black beneath. Legs rather short, yellowish, with darker 

 spots, and finely striated ; hind femora broad and flattened, with 

 some brownish spots on the outer surface ; tibiae smooth, with 

 pointed spines. 



Length 20-21 mm. ; tegmina, 11*5 mm. ; hind femur, 10 mm. 



Bombay. 



Tiipe in the Paris Museum. 



196. Chrotogonus oxypterus, Blanch. 



Oniniexycha oxi/pterum, Blancbard, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, v, 1836, 

 p. Q22, pi. xxii, fig. 9. 



Yellowish brown, short, rugose, subapterous. Head reddish ; 

 antennae yellow, with small black transverse streaks ; eyes very 

 large and prominent, covering the sides of the head. Pronotum 

 short and broad, humped, with some small black dots in front ; 

 hind border hardly festooned, sides brown, with a black spot, and 

 bordered by a white line extending to the lateral border of the 

 head. Sternum spotted with black ; tegmina only half as long as 

 the abdomen; brownish yellow, with darker spots ; wings obsolete. 

 Abdomen yellow above, with small and rather indistinct transverse 

 black lines ; under surface spotted with black. Legs rather 

 short and slender, yellow, with darker spots ; hind femora with 

 two brown spots; spines of hind tibiae small. 



Lemjtli 13-19 mm. 



Madras : Malabar. 



T>j2>es in the Paris Museum. 



J 97. Chrotogonus saussurei, i?o?. 



Chroiof/oniis smisfiurei, ]3olivar, Ann. Soc. Espaii. xiii, 1884, pp. 39, 

 47, 494 ; id., Bol. Soc. Espafi. iv, 1904. pp. 93, 104. 



Chrotviionus oxi/pterus, Bolivar {nee Blanch.), Aim. Soc. Ent. 

 France, Ixv, 1902, p. 605. 



Ferruginous brown, spotted with red ; wings rudimentai'y. 

 Head pointed, tuberculate, generally orange, with a pule oblique 

 fascia on the front, and with four black spots behind, the outei'- 

 most behind the eyes; fastigium subacute, concave; antennae 

 blackish towards the tips. Pronotum rugose, hind lobe with a 

 few granules, and a short cannula on each side ; hind border 

 obtusely angulated, with pliciform tubercles ; lateral lobes with 



