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234. Oxya velox, F. 



Gryllm velox; Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii, 1787, p. 239. 



Gn/lhos chmensis, Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb. v, 181o, p. 2oS ; 



iySV«c;VJJLrWalker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, p. 6G6. 



Green, with a broad black band extending from the upper half 

 of the eye to the base of the teg- 

 inina ; vertex often with two diverging 

 brown lines, and sometimes the middle 

 of tlie vertex and pronotum tilled np 

 with a brown band. Tegmina longer 

 than the hind femora, subhyaline, with 

 rufous nervures ; the costa, which is 

 rather suddenly expanded near the 

 base, sometimes clouded, and the inner 

 margin green. Legs green, hind 

 femora Avith the middle carina ter- 

 minating in a small tooth ; knees 

 marked with blackish and reddish ; 

 hind tibiiB, beyond the middle, and 

 first joint of tarsi considerably ex- 

 panded; hind tibiae blue with about 

 10 white black-tipped spines. Last 

 ventral segment in female longitudi- 

 nally bicarinate. 



Length 16-32 mm. ; expanse of 

 wings, 33-60 mm. 

 Kashmir : Baltistan ; Assam : Sylhet ; Bombay : Kanara ; 

 Ceylon ; China ; Malay States : Singapore ; Java, &c. 



Fig. 116. — 0.v!/a vclo.r. 



The figure is taken from Walker's type of 0. (q^ta. 



235. Oxya vicina, Brunn. 



Oxya vicina, Bnmner, Ann. Mus. Geneva, xxxiii, 18'Jo, p. 152. 



Very similar to 0. velox, but the pronotum uniform wood-brown 

 above. Antennae longer than the head and pronotum together. 

 Tegmina shorter than the hind femora, with the mediastinal area 

 in both sexes gently rounded, and the border pale, not crenulated. 

 Hind femora entire at the tip, the knees very slightly infuscated. 

 Abdomen with the last ventral segment smooth, and the hind 

 margin bidenticulate ; cerci not bidenticulate, obliquely truncated 

 in the male. 



Length 27-38 nnn. ; tegmina, lS-o-31 mm. 



Himalayas ; China ; Japan, 



