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head and proiiotum together in the male, and as long or longer in 

 the female. Pronotum as broad as the head, with the sulci very 

 strongly marked, usually «ilh black lines. Prosternal tubercle 

 acute ; meso- and meta-sternal lobes more or less widely separated, 

 or contiguous in the male. Genicular lobes of hind femora poiiited, 

 or rounded ; hind tibiie with S or 10 spines on the outer carina, 

 and 10 on the inner. Tegmina subhyaline, very thickly reticu- 

 lated towards the base, and with the costa only slightly expanded ; 

 wings h_yaline, rather long, narrow and pointed. Male A\ith the 

 cerci long, pointed or obtuse, with a tooth on the inner side ; sub- 

 genital lamina long, conical, pointed ; female with the genital 

 valves short, thick, curved, the upper ones very broad, with the 

 outer margin creuulated, the lower pointed, and armed with a 

 tooth beyond the middle. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (6) Pronotum uiiicolovous. 

 '2 (o) Pronotum with a longitudinal 

 dorsal black line on each side. 



3 (4) Black line straight, narrow ; epi- 



sterna with a small black line. biUncntiis, sp. n., p. 202. 



4 (3) Black line broad, emitting broad 



lines down the side^*; episterna 



broadly bordered with black. . hettoni, sp. n., p. 203. 



5 (2) Pronotum with narrow black 



lines in the transverse grooves banian, F., p. 204, coiiculor, 



6 (1) Pronotum yellowish green, with [Walk., p. 204. 



the front and hind margins 



vellow citj-iuoliiiibatus, Brunn.. p. 205. 



239. Hieroglyphus bilineatus, sp. nov. 



Hieroijhjphus bilineatus, Saussure MS. 



Yellowish brown (probably green in life). Scutellum of the 

 vertex short, transverse, obtusely rounded and abnost ridged in 

 front ; costal ridge sulcated throughout, incurved below the 

 ocellus, lateral carinae incurved below the antennae, and then 

 divergent. Pronotum closely punctured, with four sulci, the front 

 one lateral, and from its upper extremity runs a black line back- 

 wards to two-thirds of the length of the tegmina ; there is also a 

 black rectangle on the lower part of the second suture, with a 

 branch projecting forward, and an oblique black line above the 

 middle pair of legs. Tegmina about one-third of the length of 

 the abdomen in the female, and about half as long in the male. 

 Hind femora with a black spot on each side above before the 

 extremity ; hind tibiie black at the base, at least on the sides, and 

 with 9 or 10 black spines on each carina. Male with the cerci 

 obtuse ; female with the appendages bordered and tipped with 



