SPATirOSTEUXUAf. — OX VK I; IlKL'ES. 209 



248. Spathosternum venulosiim, *S'i«/. 



Spathonternwn venulomm, Stul, Bill. Sveusk. Akad. llaudl. v (4^ 

 1878, p. 97. 



Allied to the African /S'. nuiroUvniatum, Stfil, but smaller, and 

 with the front less oblique. The lateral margins of the upper 

 .side of the prouotum narrowly smooth, the rugae fine and slightly 

 raised. Tegmina \\ ith a short broAA'n stripe on the disk, marked 

 with whitish veins before and behind ; beyond the middle rather 

 thickly reticulated, with very numerous transverse nervules 

 between the inner radial nervures on the disk ; postocular band 

 on the head and pronotum obsolete or greenish. Mesosternal 

 lobes strongly diverging beyond the middle. Hind tibiae with 

 about 10 spines in addition to the terminal one. 



Length 20 mm. 



InjJi.v(?). 



Type in the Stockholm Miiseiim. 



Genus OXYERHEPES. 



O.rijrvhepes, Stfd, (Efv. Vet.-Akad. Furh. xxx (4), 1873, pj). 40, 53. 



Typk, Ojjsomala Kneatitarsis, 8tal {twteusa, A\^alk.). 



li'ange. Oriental Region, Africa.. 



Body moderately stout. Eustigiiim of the head rather short, 

 sloping, rectangular or obtuse at the tip, trout moderately oblique ; 

 frontal ridge sulcated, narrower above than below, but not com- 

 pressed ; antennte simple. Pronotum depressed above between 

 the carinae, and punctured ; obtusely angulated behind. Pro- 

 sternal tubercle conical or compressed. Hind femora about as 

 long as the abdomen, the genicular lobes triangular, not longer 

 than the tips of the femora ; front legs moderately long, middle 

 femora extending to the base of the hind femora ; hind tibiiB 

 with about 12 spines on the outer carina?, besides the terminal 

 one. Tegmina and wings long, the former hyaline, opaque and 

 UHUsely reticulated towards the base, hardly expanded on the 

 costa ; wings hyaline, pointed, twice as long as broad. Male 

 with the subgenital plate not compressed. 



249. Oxyrrhepes extensa. Walk. 



Acrid in in e.vtfusiuii, Walker, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3) iv, lSo9, p. 222. 

 't Opsomala liiwatitavsis, h'tfil, Eujienie's Kesa, Urth. 1800, p. 324. 

 IIeteracrii< straiiffiilafa, "Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 



p. 665. 

 Hetcracris antica, ^^ alker, op. cit. 1S70, p. CG8. 



Olive-brown, pubescent beneath. Head as broad as the pro- 

 notum. Pronotum rugose-punctate, nearly twice as long as the 

 head, with three slender sulci, the last placed rather behind the 



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