XENIPPA. 



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Genus XENIPPA. 



Xcnlppa, StSl, Bihaiip-, Sveiisk. Akad. llaudl. v (4), 1878, 

 pp. 52, 98. 



Type, Xenii)pa viridida, Stfil, from Kliartouiii. 



lianf/e. S. India, Sudan, 



Antenna; distant from the eyes, ensifonn ; fastigium of the 

 vertex very long and slender, smooth, carinated, a transverse 

 hulcits between the eyes, frontal ridge not sulcated. Pronotum 

 shorter than the head, the front margin sinuated, the lateral lobes 

 straight. Prosternal tubercle expanded at the tip, compressed 

 and produced beliind ; mesosternal lobes contiguous. Front and 

 intermediate legs rather short, hind femora much shorter than 

 the abdomen, the genicular lobes narrow, triangular, and slightly 

 produced ; hind tibiae with about 12 spines. 



257. Xenippa prasina, Bol. 



Xeiiippa prasiiia, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, 

 p. 617. 

 Green, with grey pilosity beneath. Head half as long again as 

 the pronotum, cylindrical behind the eyes ; fastigium of the vertex 

 half as long as the head, distinctly narrowed, tectiform, distinctly 

 carinated toward the tip ; vertex with a very slight carina, the 

 longitudinal spaces on each side punctured, transverse sulcus 

 between the eyes slight or obsolete ; the front distinctly narrowed 

 throughout all its length, the frontal ridge not sulcated, and its 

 basal third compressed, expanded towards the tip, and distinctly 

 margined on the sides, the lateral carinse well marked and con- 

 tinuous. Antennte ensiform, long, rather narrow. Pronotum 

 smooth, coarsely punctured in front, and more finely behind, with 

 the metazona very slightly carinated, produced and obtusely 

 rounded at the base; the deflexed lobes longer than high, the 

 lower border nearly straight, with a narrow callous yellow margin ; 

 uieso- and meta-notum punctured on the sides ; a yellow carina 

 extending from the hinder angle of the pronotum to the inter- 

 mediate coxa;. Tegmina narrow, hyaline, with green nervures, 

 the tips obtuselv rounded, and extending beyond the hind femora; 

 wings red, welfdeveloped. Legs short, front tibioe as short as the 

 froni; tarsi, hind femora narrow, hind tibia; with black-tipped 

 .spines. 



LetK/th 35 mm. ; tegmina, 21 mm. 



Madras : Madura. 



lyjie in tlie collection of M. Pantel. 



