COPl'ACRA. — COPTACRELLA. 239 



depressed beyond the tliird joint, which is as long as or longer than 

 the second. Pron»tuui with the three sulci slightly marked; 

 prosternal tubercle pointed. Hind femora moderately thickened, 

 slender towards the apex. Tegmina and wings well developed, 

 obliquely truncate at the apex.] 



238. Coptacra ensifera, Bol. 



Coptacra ensifera, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, Ixx, 1902, 

 p. 621. 



Brownish testaceous. Fastigium shortly tricarinate between 

 the eyes, tlie middle carina produced backwards ; tempora well- 

 marked, carinulate within ; frontal ridge impress-punctate, very 

 slightly expanded and produced between the autennce, very 

 slightly sinuated, front rugose ; antenna? distinctly ensiform, with 

 the second joint evidently narrower than the following ones. 

 Pronotum scabrous, rugose, bordered with grey bristles. Tegmina 

 as long as, but not longer thaii, the hind femora, the distal area 

 subhyaline, obliquely and narrowly banded \\[t\\ brown, with the 

 tips very obliquely truncated ; wings yellowish liyaliue, with the 

 radial area obliquely truncated at the tip. Legs dotted with grey 

 hairs, the front and middle legs rugose ; hind femora with the 

 upper outer area scabrous, and the lower outer area rather broad, 

 black, and transversely rugose ; inner area red, with two more or 

 less distinct brown bauds; hind tibia? red, with 11 inner and 

 9 outer black-tipped spines. 



Leiu/th 27 mm.; pronotum, 6"5 mm. ; tegmina, 25 mm. ; hind 

 femur, 1G*5 mm. 



Madkas ; Madura. 



Genus COPTACRELLA. 



Coptacvella, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent, France, Ixx, 1902, pp. 622, 

 624. 



Type, Coptacrella martini, Bol. 



Range. India. 



Head (seen from the front) not expanded below ; frontal ridge 

 continuous, iilmost everywhere equally broad, but slightly con- 

 tracted below, though on the same plane ; somewhat compressed 

 between the antennse, and in the male slightly expanded ; lateral 

 carinse pointed, and nearly parallel with the carina? bordering the 

 frontal ridge, lateral area of the front about three times as broad 

 as the frontal ridge ; eyes oblong, separated above by a narrow- 

 interval, about as broad as the frontal ridge ; vertex horizontally 

 produced by arching continuously into the frontal ridge, with a 

 carina on each side above between the eyes, often interrupted in 

 the middle ; antenna; slightly longer than the head, depressed and 

 narrowly ensiform from the tliird joint. Pronotum obtusely 

 tectiform, the middle carina cut by the three sulci, and rectangular 

 behind. Tegmina rudimentary, pointed towards the tips, with 



