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CATANTOPIN.i;. 



ocellus to within a short distance of the clypeus ; anteunse very 

 long, tiliform. Tegmina extended beyond the apex of the bind 

 femora, slightly oblique and obtuse at the apex, but not truncate ; 

 wings with comparatively few transverse nervures, Prosternal 

 tubercle small, acute. 



287. Apalacris varicornis, Wall: 



Apalacn's varicornis, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 

 p. G42. 



Head and pronotum above of a slightly reddish brown ; front 

 finely punctured, frontal ridge sulcated, narrow, with parallel 



cariuae, lateral cariuoe also straight; 

 antennae very long, the basal 

 fourth reddish, the rest black, 

 except the last five segments, 

 which are yellowish, tips pointed. 

 Pronotum punctate - granulate, 

 with the median carina and the 

 three sulci slightly marked, the 

 last rather beyond the middle, 

 the hinder extremity almost 

 rectangular, but truncated at the 

 tip. Under surface of body and 

 sides of abdomen yellow, abdomen 

 shining black above. Tegmina 

 testaceous, subhyaline towards 

 the tips, where they are only 

 slightly oblique ; wing nearly as 

 long as the tegmina, hyaline, with 

 brown nervures. Prosternal tu- 

 bercle pointed. Front and middle 

 legs yellowish brown ; front tarsi blackish, with a rather strong 

 spine at the extremity of the first joint; hind legs yellowish, the 

 femora with three oblique black bands connected by a black line 

 along the lower outer carina, and with a curved black line on each 

 side of the knees, hind femora very finely denticulated above ; hind 

 tibiae slightly pubescent, with 9 or 10 rather small black-tipped 

 spines. 



Lenr/tJi 18 mm.; expanse of tegmina, 35 mm. 



North India. 



Ti/jie in the British Museum. 



Genus COPTACRA. 

 Coptacra, StSl, Eeceus. Orth. i, 1873, pp. 37, 58. 

 Type, Acridium fceclatum, Serv. 



Rmuie. Java, India. 



[Vertex not broader than the frontal ridge ; frontal ridge 

 thickly punctured, parallel-sided, very slightly wider between the 

 antenuae than at the vertex; anteuntc more or less ensiform. 



Fig. 130. — Apalacris varicornis. 



