204 CATAXToriN.Ti:, 



above the middle and hind legs ai-e also streaked with black, and 

 there is a double row of black spots on the abdomen above. 

 Femora black at tiie tips ; bind tibice blue, black at the base, and 

 with 9 or 10 white black-tipped spines. Tegmina subhyaline, 

 greenish at the base, longer than the abdomen, or abbreviated, 

 with the prinei]3al iiervures black ; \\-ings hyaline, with brown or 

 black uervures. 



Length 38-44 mm.; wings, 18-40 mm. 



Assam : C'achar ; Bombay : Moghal iSarai. 



Tupcs in the British Museum. 



241. Hieroglyphus banian, F. 



Gryllus haniun, Fubricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl. 1798, p. lf)4. 

 Acridimn furcifer, Serville, lus. Ortli. 18o9, p. 677, pi. xiv, tig. \2. 



Green, including the antenna\ Pronotum smooth, with four 

 sulci, narrowly lined with black, the iirst obsolete above, the second 

 on the sides, and the last two continuous. Tegmina subhyaline, 

 densely reticulated and greenish at the base, with green nervures ; 

 wings as long as the tegmina, greenish hyaline. The three sub- 

 terminal ventral segments with silky tufts of hair on the middle. 

 Hind tibiae blue, with black-tipped spines. Antennae with the 

 basal joint yellowish green, the rest dark green, tipped with 

 yellow. Subgenital lamina of male moderately long. 



Length 4.3 ii)m. 



Bombay : Kaphot ; Central Provixces : Bilaspur ; Burma : 

 Bhamo. 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



Said to be destructive to rice in the Central Provinces, and to 

 crops in general in Guzerat and Kattiawar. 



242. Hieroglyphus concolor, Walk-. 



Oxi/a conco/or, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. r>.:\I. iv, 1870, p. 646. 

 Hierdi/k/phiis tarsal is, .Stfd, Bill. vSvensk. Akad. Ilaiidl. v (4), 1878, 

 p. 94.' 



Very similar to the last species. Antennie black, pale at the 

 base, and at the ends of the joints. Pronotum finely punctured, 

 the sulci narrowly lined with black. Hind femora with a black 

 spot on each side at the base of the knees, or with a black crescent 

 on each side of the knees ; bind tibia) blue, with the base black, or 

 narrow ly ringed with black, and the tip, as well as the base of the 

 first joint of the tarsi, black. Abdomen beneath pubescent in 

 the middle, at least in the male ; subgenital lamina of male rather 

 short. 



Ljength 41-02 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 48-75 mm. 



Bombay: Kanara; Assam: Sylhet ; Chin'a. 



