222 catantopix.t:. 



and narrow, hardly extending beyond the middle of the first seg- 

 ment of the abdomen. Legs testaceous ; hind femora moderately 

 thickened, longer than the abdomen; hind tibiae curved, pale 

 green, brown at base and tip, with G or 7 brown-tipped spines. 



Length ] S mm. ; tegmina, "2 mm. 



CByLOX". 



Tijpe in the British Museum. 



2()7. Mesambria tarsalis, WaU-. 



Acvidium tarsale, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, p. G3l>. 



Dark brown, thickly punctured over the whole of the upper 

 surface ; median carina slight on the head, well marked on the 

 pronotum and abdomen. Fastigiuiu of the vertex triangularly 

 expanded \n front of the head, frontal 

 ridge sulcated, rather more broadly 

 below than above, lateral carinfe nearly 

 straight ; eyes with a yellow crescent- 

 mark behind, and behind this a broad 

 black band hardly extending to the 

 back of the head ; antenna? black, with 

 long 3^ellow spines to the middle. Pro- 

 notum with the hinder lobe testaceous. 

 Legs dull green; hind femora moderately 

 thickened, as long as the abdomen, knees 

 blackish ; hind tibia? brighter green, 

 except at the base, which is blackish, 

 with an ivory-white spot above, and 

 with 7 black-tipped spines on the inner 

 and 6 on the outer carina ; hind tarsi 

 blackish, first joint testaceous. Abdo- 

 men blackish, sides with testaceous 

 bands on the incisions ; anal appendages 

 of female very large, hooked upwards 

 and downwards at the tips, aud dentated 

 on both sides within. Tegmina very 

 narrow, linear, extending nearly to the extremity of the first 

 segment of the abdomen. 



Length 28 mm.; tegmina, 5 mm. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is not improbably the female of M. dubla. 



Fig. 124. 

 jMesamhria tarsalis 



2C)S. Mesambria cinctifemur, WaR. 



Acrydimn cinctifemur, Walker, Adu. Xat. Hist. (3) iv, 1859, 

 p. 223. 



Walker's description reads, "Fawn-colour, varied uith black, 



