170 PYEGOMOEPHIN;?:. 



black, hind femora sometimes yellowish ; tegaiiua light brown 

 or olive-brown, thickly reticulated with yellow, with numerous 

 yellow callous spots ; wings purplish brown, subhyaline, darkest 

 towards the base. Tubercles of pronotuin less prominent than in 

 A. miliaria. 



Length 42-60 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 64-110 mm. 



Tibet ; Kashmik ; Xepal ; United Proyixces : Gai'hwal ; 

 Malay States ; Jaya. 



The immature insect has short yellow wings. 



202. Aularches scahiosae, F. 



Gryllus scabiosce, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii, 1793, p. 51. 



Shining black, with a broad yellow band across the head and 

 sides of tlie prouotum, as in the last species. Pronotum with the 

 front, including the large rounded tubercles, yellow, and the hind 

 border, which is not very strongly deutated, also yellow. Abdomen 

 broadly banded with red both above and below, except some- 

 times on the basal half above. Tegmina brown or greenish, with 

 numerous yellow callous spots. Wings purplish brown, sub- 

 hyaline towards the extremity ; sometimes Avith a few indistinct 

 yellow spots. 



Length 44-60 mm. ; expanse of teguiina, 80-100 mm. 



Bengal : Orissa ; Bombay ; Ceylon ; Cambodia. 



Genus P(ECILOCERUS. 



Pakilocenis, Serville, Ami. Sci. Nat. xxii, 1831, p. 27.5; id., lus. 



Orth. 1839, p. 595. 

 Pivcilocerus, Stal, CEi\. Vet.-Akad. Furh. xxx (4), 1873, p. 51. 



Type, Grglhis pictus, P. 



Range. Indian Region, Western Asia, jN'orth and East Africa. 



Size large ; body stout, subfusiform ; wings opaque, coloured. 

 Head and pronotum very slightly carinated, fastigium of the 

 vertex convex, obtusely rounded in front, and distinctly sulcated, 

 passing into the frontal ridge, which is sulcated throughout ; 

 lateral carinae only slightly divergent ; antenna? short and thick, 

 with long joints. Pronotum gradually widened behind, the sulci 

 well marked, the hind sulcus placed about the middle, the hinder 

 lobe raised, and rounded behiud ; deflexed lobes narrowed below. 

 Abdomen slightly carinated above. Tegmina and wings coloured, 

 about as long as the abdomen. Legs rather stout, the four front 

 tibiae spined beneath at the extremity ; hind femora slender, 

 nearly as long as the abdomen, unarmed ; hind tibiae spined 

 above, with nearly equal terminal spines above and below. 



