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Genus EPISTAURUS. 



Epistminis, Bolivar, .Torn. Sci. Lisb. (2) i, 1889, p. 164. 



Type, Ejnstaurus crucigeyns, Bol. 



liange. India, Burma, Africa. 



Costal ridge round, arched at the base, very broad between the 

 antennae, and narrowed towards the extremity, hardly sulcated ; 

 the vertex longitudinally carinated, Avith a transverse carina 

 between the eyes. Pronotum \\ith the median carina well marked, 

 interrupted only by the hind sulcus. Tegmina well-developed, 

 obliquely truncated at the tips. 



Keif to the Species. 



Abdomen brown aherranf;, Bruun. 



.Vbdomen red, sjjotted on the back sineti/i, Bol. 



J^pistanrus dherruns, Brunner, Ann. Miis. Genova, xxxiii, 1893, 

 p. 160, pi. V, fig. 55. 



292. Epistanrus aberrans, Bnmn 



J^pistanrus dherruns, Brunner, 

 p. 160, pi. V, fig. 55. 



Bro\Anish testaceous, very hairy. Tegmina obtusely and 

 obliquely truncated at the tips ; wings yellowish, with the borders 

 infuscated. Hind femora with the outer side indistinctly bi- 

 fasciated with brown, the inner side red ; hind tibiae pale in the 

 male, and red in the female. Last dorsal segment in the male 

 bilobate at the extremity ; supra-anal lamina in the male quadrate, 

 slightly sulcated ; cerci curved, deflexed and pointed at the tips. 



Length 12'5-18"5 mm.; pronotum, 3"7-4 mm.; tegmina, 14- 

 15 mm. ; hind femur, 10-11 mm. 



Burma : Bhamo. 



I'ype in the Genoa Museum. 



293. Epistanrus sinetyi, Bol. 



Epistaurus sinetyi, Bo]i\ar, Ann. Soc, Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, 

 p. 623. 



Pale reddish. Median carina of the vertex very indistinct. 

 Wings yellowish hyaline. Hind femora obliquely trifasciate with 

 brown, lower outer area brown, interrupted in the middle, on the 

 inside red at the base, and bifasciate with brown ; tibiae clothed 

 with long grey hairs, bi'own at the base, ringed with pale, and then 

 red, with 9 outer and 11 inner spines. Abdomen red, with a row 

 of spots on the back interrupted by the median line ; male with 

 the supra-anal lamina smooth, transversely and rather indistinctly 

 impressed in the middle, with the tip acutely angulated ; cerci 

 short, shghtly compressed, incurved towards the tips ; subgenital 



