224 CATANTOPIN^'E. 



270, Mesambria iiepalensis, Wall-. 



Caloptenus nepalensis, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 

 p. 707. 



Testaceous, stout. rastigium of vertex short, triangular, 

 frontal ridge rather broad, hardly sulcated and sliglith^ punctured, 

 vertex very slightly carinated, pronotuni and abdomen more dis- 

 tinctly ; behind eacli eye is a black line extending to the front of 

 the pronotuni. On a level with the lower [,art of tlie eye is ai\ 

 oblique black stripe on tlie sides of the pronotuni, hardly indicated 

 on the hinder lobe, but continued on the pleura below the 

 tegmina ; and beyond the first segment of the abdomen is a 

 continuous black lateral stripe. Tegmina hyaline, moderately 

 broad, extending to the end of the first segment of the abdomen. 

 Hind knees marked with black on the sides, hind tibia" \\ith 8 or 

 9 black-tipped spines. 



Leiujih 20 mm. ; tegmina, "'ih mm. 



JS^EPAL. 



Tiipe in the British Museum. 



Genus ORTHACANTHACRIS. 



Orthacanthacris, Karsch, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. Ivii, 1896, p. 30.3. 

 Locudii, Karnv (Limi. pt.), Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. -nut. 

 CI. cxvi, 1907, p. 304. 



Type, Cyrtacanthacris JmmilicrKS, Karsch, from E. & W. Africa. 



Bange. Europe, Africa, W. Asia, India, Cev^lon. 



(Size large. Front perpendicular, vertex depressed, bordered 

 with carinse in front of the eyes, passing insensibly into the suture 

 of the frontal ridge, which is slightly contracted above and be]o^\" 

 the antennsD, and is punctured between them ; antennae longer 

 than the head and pronotum. Pronotuni with a strong median 

 carina, cut by the usual transverse sutures, the hind suture placed 

 about the middle, punctured, the hind border rectangular, ^^■ith 

 the point rounded off, hind lobe thickened; tegmina and wings 

 long or very long ; hind femora thick, rather shorter than the 

 abdomen. 



Key to the >S2>ecies. 



[1 (6) Wings not red at the base. 



2 (5) Wings banded witli black. 



3 (4) Wings hyaline,with a broad black 



band before the middle cvgyptia, L., p. 2:?.">. 



4 (3) Wings pale yellow towards the 



base, with a black band towards 



the hind border Jlavescens, F., p. 225. 



5 (2) Hind wings not bauded with 



black, violaceous at base violascens, Walk., p. 220. 



6 (1) Wings red at tlie base. 



