186 PYEGOMOEPHIN.i:. 



running beliind the eyes, as far as the iiiiddle coxae ; fastigium 

 rather broad, moderately prominent before the eyes, obtusely 

 cariuated in the middle and obtuse at the tip ; eyes marked witli 

 curved black parallel lines. Pronotuin slightly sinuated before 

 and behind ; the de flexed lobes with numerous large yellow ir- 

 regular granules, the lower margin as well as the front and hind 

 angles yellow. An abdominal tympanum present ; prosternal 

 tubercle short and conical : mesosternal space X-sl^fiped, very 

 narrow. Hind tibiae with a brown spot at the tip on the inside^ 

 and a very short terminal spine on the outer margin. Abdomen 

 with a narrow lateral chestnut line grauulated with whitish. 

 . Length 27 mm. 



Madras : Coromandel Coast. 



Type in the collection of M. Maindron. 



224. Orthacris ruficornis, Bol. 



Orthacris riificornis, BoliTar, Ann. Soc. Er.t. France, Ixx, 190:?, 

 p. 608. 



Long, finely punctured, olivaceous green, or red above, with 

 greyish hair beneath. Pastigium rather broad, subtransverse in 

 the female, obtusely carinated above, and rounded in front ; 

 antennae red, subtriquetral at the base. Pronotum subcylindrical, 

 expanded behind in the female, truncated in the middle or slightly 

 sinuated on the hind margin ; a pale olive band (sometimes 

 obsolete) running behind the eyes as far as the hind coxae, bordered 

 within by a granulose red band, the outer margin sinuated. 

 Pectus rather long, separated by a distinctly narrower space from 

 the mesosternal lobe in both sexes. Front femora thickened in 

 the male ; hind tibiae with an outer apical spine. Abdomen 

 furnished with a large tympanum ; the last dorsal segment 

 slightly emarginate in the middle, with the lobes produced ; 

 supra-anal lamina lanceolate, sulcated at the tip ; cerci very short, 

 triangular, not incurved at the tip, much shorter than the supra- 

 anal lamina; subgenital lamina compressed. 



Lenrjtli 17-24 mm. 



Madras: Kodaikanal. 



Types in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar. 



225. Orthacris elegans, Boh 



Ortlmcvix fleqans, Bolivar, Anu. Soc. Eut. France, Ixx, 1902, 

 pp. 608, 609. 



Eather narrow, coarsely punctured, dead-leaf colour. Pront 

 oblique, slightly sinuated. eyes prominent; vertex slightly carinated 

 in the middle ; fastigium triangular before the eyes, equal-sided, 

 roundly truncate in front; antenna? ringed with green and red. 

 Pronotum cylindrical, rounded in front, hind margin truncated and 



