234: . CATANTOPIX^. 



punctures, the hind sulcus behind the middle of the pronotuni, 

 the front area sparingly tuberculate, the hinder area thickly 

 rugose-punctate, the liind border thickened, often yellow. Teg- 

 mina rudimentary, lanceolate, as long as the liind lobe of the 

 pronotum ; A\"ings very short. Hind femora spinose above and 

 below, the outer carina with obtuse tubercles ; hind tibiae red in 

 the male and yellow in the female, M'ith black-tipped spines. 

 Supra-anal lamina in the male triangularly produced, pointed ; 

 in the female rather compressed, with the tip obtuse ; subgenital 

 lamina of the male compressed, carinated, and pointed. 



Length 20-40 mm.; pronotum, ll"5-20 mm.; tegmina, 6- 

 10 mm. ; hind femur, 13-19 mm.; hind tibiae, 12 mm. 



Madras : Kodaikanal. 



Types in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar. 



282. Pelecinotus cristagalli, Bol. 



PJecinotKs cristac/alli, Bolivar, Anu. 8oc. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, 

 p. 620, pi. ix, rig. 36. 



Eesembles the last-named species, but the head is smooth, not 

 rugose ; the froutal carinae are scarcely raised and almost inter- 

 rupted at the ocellus. The crest of the pronotum is much raised 

 and arched, crenulated but only slightly compressed, and not 

 punctured with black on the sides, the hind border broadly whitish, 

 with the hinder angle pointed, but the lower part of the tip 

 obtuse. Hind tibiae long. 



Length 21 mm. ; pronotum, 12 mm. ; tegmina, 5 mm. ; hind 

 femur, 14 mm.; liind tibiae, 14 mm. 



Madras: Madura. 



Types in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar. 



Genus TERATODES. 

 Temtocks, Brulle, Hist. Ins. ix, 1835, p. 222. 



Type, Grgllus monticoUis, Gray. 



Bange. India, Ceylon. 



Body stout; head broad, rounded above, face vertical; frontal 

 ridge very shallow, parallel-sided from the ocellus to the clypeus, 

 but the carinae diverging above to the antennae; antennae short, 

 filiform, rather thick, widely separated at the base, with indistinct 

 joints. Pronotum raised, large, sublaminately compressed, the 

 front arched above the head in a point, the middle forming a high 

 crest, denticulated, especially behind, and coveriug half the length 

 of the abdomen ; the sides granulated, the extreme tip pointed 

 and curved up. Prosternal tubercle pointed. Legs rather short ; 

 hind femora with short spines on the upper carinae, and longer 

 ones below ; hind tibiae with 9 or 10 very strong spines. Tegmina, 

 opaque, longer or shorter than the abdomen ; wings hyaline. 



