188 PYRGOMOBPHITSr^. 



227. Orthacris simiilans, Bol. 



Qrtliacris siimdans, J5olivar, Auu. Soc. ICnt. J'rance, Ixx, 1U02, 

 pp. 608, 611. 



Closely allied to the last species, but witli a large abdominal 

 tympanum. The male has the side ot" the head and thorax and 

 the lateral lobes of the pronotum dull reddish, and there are a 

 few white tubercles on the head. The last segment of the abdo- 

 men in the male is deeply sinuated, with the two lobes turning 

 outwards, the supra-anal lamina carinated in the middle, and the 

 cerci incurved at the tip. 



Length 19-26 mm. 



Mauuas: Madura. 



Types in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar. 



Genus COLEMANIA. 

 Colemania, Bolivar, Bol. Soc. Espau. Hist. Xat. x, 1910, p. 319. 



Ti'PB, Colemania sphenarioicles, Bol. 



Bani/e. India. 



Body long, subcylindrical, fusiform in the male, and inflated in 

 the middle. Fastigium of the vertex produced beyond the frontal 

 ridge, longer than the eye, front sloping, slightly sinuated ; an- 

 tenna 19-jointed, tapering from the third joint to the tip ; frontal 

 ridge sulcated, compressed at the base, obsolete before the mouth, 

 lateral carinte slightly diverging, geua^ with a slightly marked I'ovv 

 of granules ; eyes small, longer than broad, truncated behind ; 

 ocelli visible, the middle one between the eyes, and the lateral 

 ocelli placed before the eyes. Pronotum conical in the male, 

 cylindrical in the female, the two anterior sulci obliterated, the 

 last continuous and placed much beyond the middle ; the lateral 

 lobes long, with the margins entire, the front margin obhque, the 

 lower one straight, indistinctly sinuated behind. Tegmina very 

 narrow, longer than the pronotum ; wings obsolete. Prosteruum 

 acutely spined ; uiesosternal lobes long, in the male truncated and 

 contiguous behind, in the female expanded in front and rounded 

 behind ; metasternal foveolse nearer together in the male than in 

 the female. Legs short, front femora thickened in the male; 

 hind femora slender, with the outer area narrow, Avith rather in- 

 distinct pinnate rugae, the genicidar lobes angulately produced ; 

 hind tibia) slender, the apical third expanded, and smooth above, 

 with ]iine outer and eleven inner spines, and apical spines on both 

 sides ; hind tarsi slender, the first joint twice as long as the second. 

 Abdomen cylindrical, sub-clavate at the tip ; last dorsal segment 

 of the male transverse, trisinuated behind, su])ra-anal lamina 

 forming a long triangle, longer than the cerci, sulcated and 

 pointed ; in the female nearly equilateral ; cerci short, curved, 

 subulate at the tips in the male, short and straight in the female ; 

 subgenital lamina compressed, subcarinate behind ; valves of the 

 ovipositor short, sinuate. 



