AifARClIlTA. lAGASTA. 179 



■carinate longitudinally above in the female, with the hind borders 

 ■of the segments smooth. 



Lemjili 16-23 mm, ; hind femur, (5-5-8o mm. 



Madras: Madura. 



T^ypes in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar, 



Genus TAGASTA. 



Tayasta, Bohvar, Bol. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. v, 1005, p. 11l>. 

 Mestrn, Stfd {nee Iliibner), <EtV. Vet.-Akad. Fdrh. xxxiv (10), 

 1877, p. 52. 



Type, Mestra liojilosterna, Stal. 



Rmifje. Oriental Region. 



Body subfusiform, slightly compressed, pubescent above. Head 

 -conical, shorter than the pronotum, or of equal length ; tempora 

 widened in front, only separated by a short suture ; front very 

 oblique, frontal ridge much flattened, hardly sulcated, shortly com- 

 pressed between theautennte ; the latter coneolorous, filiform, and 

 inserted between the eyes, with joints about three times as long 

 as broad, the basal joints slightly flattened, and the tip extending 

 to the hind border of the pronotum ; eyes rounded ; ocelli distinct, 

 cheeks granulated. Pronotum pubescent, roundly truncate in 

 front, obtusely angulated or rounded behind, with the median 

 carina very slightly indicated, or obsolete, and the lateral carinas 

 obsolete ; the sulci slightly marked, and the hind sulcus placed 

 behind the middle; the prozona considerably longer than the 

 metazona ; the deflexed lobes distinctly higher behind, the lower 

 margin oblique, subsinuate, bordered with whitish, the anal angle 

 •obtuse, nearly rectangular. Tegmina not or scarcely longer than 

 the hind femora, with the costal area considerably expanded near 

 the base. Wings distinctly shorter tlian the tegmina, red or 

 hyaline. Legs long and slender ; front femora distinctly thickened 

 in the male, hind femora compressed, the outer area with radiating 

 ridges ; hind tibiae with rounded spines, and with an outer apical 

 spine above. Prosternum strumose, or armed with a short tooth ; 

 mesosternal lobes separated by a longer or shorter space ; meta- 

 sternal foveolae separated by a transverse space. Valves of the 

 ovipositor sinuated. 



Key to the Species. 



Tegmina with a black spot at the base, containinc^ an 



orang-e one iiotata, Brunn. 



Tegmina unspotted at the base indiea, Bol. 



.214. Tagasta notata, Brunn. 



Mestra iwtuta, Jirmuier, Ann. 3Ins. Genova, xxxiii, 189o, p. 130, 

 pi. V, fig. -"iO. 



Pastigiuni of the vertex rather pointed. Pronotum uniformly 



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