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Yellow or red, the face sometimes marked with vertical duskv 

 or blackish lines ; frontal ridge smooth, only slightly sulcated, 

 sometimes a median pale line with a darker border runs from the 

 fastigium of the vertex over the pronotum. Pronotum thickly 

 punctured, expanded and rounded behind. Tegmina long, sub- 

 hyaline, covered w ith irregularly transverse brown reticulate spots ; 

 wings more than twice as long as broad, hyaline, often slightly 

 stained with yellow or red at the extreme base. Hind knees 

 marked with blackish. 



Length 40-62 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 100-140 mm. 



Sixu ; Nepal ; Assam ; Ceylon ; Mediterranean Eegion ; 

 Western Asia ; South and Central America. 



Linuteus confounded several species under the name tatarica ; 

 but the present species appears to be the best entitled to retain 

 the name. 



Genus PELECINOTUS. 



Felecivotus, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 190i', p. 019. 



Type, Pelecinotus hracht/pterus, Bol. 



Range. S. India. 



Vertex very broad, and sloping to the vertical front ; frontal 

 ridge very broad between the antenna), suddenly narrowed before 

 the ocellus, and with the margins subparallel as far as the clypeus; 

 antennae filiform, rather thick in the male, and slender in the 

 female. Pronotum rather short in front, long and pointed behind, 

 the hinder lobe shorter than the front lobe; the back compressed 

 and cristate throughout its whole length, the crest more or less 

 excavated, not interrupted by the sulci, which are obsolete on the 

 summit of the crest. Tegmina rudimentary, short, broad, lateral, 

 lanceolate ; wings obsolete. Legs thick ; femora with the outer 

 dorsal area very broad, with the carinje spinose ; hind tibia? with 

 the inner and outer rows of spines extending equally far towards 

 the base. 



Keg to the Species. 



Head rugose ; pronotum ^Yith large depressed black 



punctures laterally brachyptevus, ]3ol. 



Head smooth ; pronotum with the crest more raised 



and without black punctures cristugalli, Bol. 



281. Pelecinotus brachjrpterus, BoJ. 



Felecinofus bracliypterus, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, lOOi', 

 p. 620, pi. ix, tig. 35. 



Green. Head rugose, vertex almost perpendicular, slightly 

 sloping ; antenna? brown towards the tips. Pronotum sharply 

 tectiform, short in front, pointed behind, the median carina com- 

 pressed, smooth ; viewed laterally, obtusely arched in the male, 

 straight or slightly sinuated in the middle in the female, arched 

 in front, and excavated behind, the sides with large black depressed 



