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CATA>.T()PIX.E. 



broad, eniarginate, bilobate ; inesosternal lobes distant; nieta- 

 sternal lobes contiguous. Tegmina narrow, rounded at the 

 extremity, with close transverse nervules between the two 

 radial nervures. Hind tibiae long and slender, hardly dilated, 

 with U or 10 spines, besides the apical one. Female with the 

 valves rather short, the upper borders crenulated or smootli, the 

 lower ones armed with a small tooth behind tlie middle. 



Key to the Specie!^. 



Postocular iDand well marked prnsinifen/m, Walk. 



I'ostocular band obsolate, or suffused green .... veuulostim, 8t;il. 



:247. Spathosternum prasinifenim. Walk-. 



Jlctemcrisi?) prasinifevd, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. ]}.M. v, 



Suppl. 1871, p. 65. 

 ? CahtfiteuHs calif/inosus, Walker, up. cit. 1871, p. 09. 

 StcHohothnis sfrit/ulatus, AValker, op. cit. 1871, p. 82. 



Eufo-testaceoiis or green, with a broad blackish or dark green 

 stripe running behind the lower part of the eyes and below the 



lateral carince of the pronotum. 

 It is banded above by a narrow 

 pale yellow line, and below by a 

 broader one, below which again 

 is another dusky band, bordered 

 below with yellow. Tegmina 

 light brown towards the base, 

 and subhyaline beyond ; central 

 area with a longitudinal black 

 streak, generally almost obsolete 

 in the male, and well marked in 

 the female, but very variable, 

 sometimes being en.tire, but 

 more frequently with white 

 transverse markuigs, sometimes 

 numerous enough to break it 

 into spots ; iuner margin ob- 

 scure or reddish in tlie male, 

 and generally green in the female ; wings hyaline, often 

 clouded towards Ihe tip. Legs rufo-testaceous ; hind femora 

 often more or less green, especially in the female, and frequently 

 with a dark longitudinal band on the outer area; hind tibia) 

 with 10 or 11 spines, and sometimes green. 



Lemjtli 13-20 nun. ; expanse of tegmina, 25-30 mm. 

 Bombay ; Bengal : Pusa. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



A very abundant and variable species. I am not quite certain 

 whether caliginosus of Walker, from an unknown locality, should 

 be included here; it is unusually green, and the abdominal 

 appendages of the fejnale are unusually short. 



Fig. 121. 



Spathostci-num-pradiiifci 



