176 



PYRGOMOEPHIN^E. 



where it is very obtusely rounded; front long, hai^lly sinuated, 

 vertex and pronotum with a well-marked median carina, the 

 lateral carinse obsolete ; antennae shorter than the head and pro- 

 notum together, stout, pointed at the tip, 

 and nuich broadened and flattened at the 

 base above ; a row of large granules runs 

 behind each eye to the back of the head, 

 above which (but not contiguous) is a trace 

 of a pale Hue, and the deflexed lobes are 

 very narrowly edged witli pale below. Teg- 

 mina testaceous (green in life ?), rather 

 long, narrow, and pointed ; wings shorter 

 than the tegmina, red, with the costa and 

 hind margin hyaline. Abdomen with black 

 spots above towards the base. Legs long 

 and slender. 



Length 21 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 

 38 mm. 

 Benga^l. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Fig. 114. — Pyrgo- 

 morjjha brachycera. 



-ill. Pyrgomorpha hispiiiosa, Wall:. 



Fyryomorpha bispinosa, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iii, 1870, 



p. 499. 

 Pyn/omorpha iniUca, Bolivar, Aun. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, 



p! 66. 



Grreeu, or grey, often varied with brown. IVout sinuated, very 

 oblique ; head finely granulose, with a pale oblique line behind 

 the eyes ; vertex narrow, oblong, obtusely rounded in front. 

 Pronotum sparingly granulose ; carinse before the middle distinct, 

 inflexed, replaced behind by rows of granules, median carina con- 

 tinuous ; deflexed lobes with the lower margin bisinuate, with a 

 broad pale border, granulose, with the hinder angle obliquely 

 truncated, and near it a spine. Tegmina extending to the tip of 

 the hind femora, obtuse at the extremity ; wings rather shorter, 

 with the inner part of the disk rosy. Legs varied with brown, 

 hind femora usually with two obsolete brown bands, and the inner 

 surface more or less brown ; hind tibiae grey or green. Abdomen 

 brown on the back. 



Lengtli 15-21 mm.; tegmina, 11-15 mm. 



MADE.iS: Madui-a, Ivodaikanal. 



Type of hispinosa in the British Museum ; type of indica in 

 the collections of Pantel and Bolivar. 



