ORTHACRIS. 187 



very slightly excised in the middle ; the hind lobe very short, the 

 deflexed lobes crossed by a pale stripe running from behind the 

 eye to the hind coxae, broken into three spots on the pleura and 

 bordered on tlie inner side by a green stripe enclosing yellow 

 tubercles, the outer margin sinuated before the middle, and behind 

 the middle coalescing with the hind margin. Legs green, femora 

 more or less bordered with red, the hind knees black on the in- 

 side and marked outside with red and black ; hind tibiae tipped 

 with blaclv beneath and with a small outer apical spine. Pectus 

 narrow, mesosternal lobes separated by a rather narrower space. 

 Tympanum absent ; supra-anal lamina equilaterally triangular in 

 the female. 



Length 23 mm. 



Madras : Madura. 



226. Orthacris acuticeps, Bol. 



Orthacris actif.iccps, Bolivav, Ami. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 190.!^ 

 pp. 608, 610. 



Very long and narrow, finely rugose, and closely punctured ; 

 olive-green, with a yellow stripe running from the base of the 

 antennae below the eyes and along the lower borders of the pro- 

 notum to the hind coxae ; in this are a few red tubercles, and 

 above it, on the pronotum, is a broad green stripe with scattered 

 white tubercles, followed by a white line occupying the place of 

 the obsolete lateral carinas ; legs and under surface with grey 

 hairs. Head pointed in front, vertex obtusely carinated, pointed 

 in the male and rounded in the female; antenna) subtriquetral at 

 the base, the joints pale at the tips. Pronotum subcylindrical, 

 truncate behind, the lateral margins broadly spotted with red and 

 yellow and with a few yello^\" tubercles. Meso- and meta-notum 

 with yellow lateral bands ; prosternum with a small conical tooth ; 

 pectus narrow, expanded behind ; mesosternal lobes almost con- 

 tiguous in the male and separated by a very narrow space in the 

 female. Front femora distinctly thickened, hind femora below 

 spotted with brown, with the lower outer carina yellow ; hind 

 tibiae with the outer apical spine obsolete. Abdomen reddish, 

 with black and white lateral lines; abdominal tympanum very 

 small ; the last dorsal segment in the male roundly emarginate in 

 the middle, forming triangular lobes ; supra-anal lamina lanceolate, 

 obtusely carinated, not longer than the cerci ; the* latter com- 

 pressed, pointed and incurved at the tips; subgeuital lamina large, 

 somewhat compressed, carinated behind. 



Lewjili 18-24 mm. 



Mabhas: Kodaikanal, Madura. 



T>ip(!i in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar. 



