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obtuse, widened in front of the eyes, face punctured, frontal ridge 

 sulcated, very slightly widened below the ocellus, the cariiiae 

 slightly black-spotted ; a dark stripe runs from the fastigium over 

 the vertex (where it is lightest) and the pronotum ; it is bordered 

 on each side by a yellow stripe, broader and less defined on tlie 

 nietanotuin. Pronotum thickly punctured above, the median carina 

 slightly developed and almost obsolete in front, the transverse 

 sulci slightly marked, the hindmost placed about tlie middle ; the 

 hind border forming a very obtuse angle, with the tip truncated ; 

 at the lower end of the eye is a whitish spot, above whicli is a 

 second, and between this and the yellow lateral stripes above is 

 a brown stripe, running backwards from the eye and expanding 

 o\er the whole of the defiexed lobes, except tor a slight yellow 

 border in front ; lower border of detlexed lobes nearly straight. 

 Abdomen yellowish brown, with a black median stripe above 

 becoming macular hindvvards, and with some slight yellow spots 

 on the sides. Prosternal tubercle conical, rounded at the tip; 

 mesosternal lobes small, sepai'ate ; metasternal lobes contiguous. 

 Tegmina long, light brown, speckled with brown in the costal 

 area, and subhyaline towards the tips ; wings hyaline, slightly 

 brownish towards the borders. Tront and middle legs light 

 brown ; hind femora yellowish, the outer area with two 

 broad oblique brown bands, continued more narrowly on the 

 upper surface and to the middle of the inner surface ; inner 

 surface red, lower surface light brown, knees brown : hind tibiae 

 red, with '^-9 black-tipped spines on each side ; the two basal 

 joints of the tarsi red, terminal joint brown. 



Length 31 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 62 mm. 



Assam: Sylhet. 



Tiipd in the British Museum. 



304. Catantops consobrinus, Kanu/. 



Catantops coii'O/brinHs, Karuv, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. AVien, Math.-nat. 

 CI. cxvi, 1907, pp. 319, ;34L 



Testaceous, lateral lobes of the pronotum unicolorous. Teg- 

 mina extending much beyond the hind knees, testaceous, mottled 

 with grey at the base and grey at the tip. Prosternal tubercle short, 

 very obtuse ; mesosternal lobes not wide apart, metasternal lobes 

 contiguous ; metathorax with an oblique pale stripe on the sides. 

 Hind femora above with transverse dusky bands, a stripe in front 

 very slightly extending into the externo-median area, and all 

 the carina^, especially the lower ones, spotted with black ; hind 

 tibiae dull testaceous. Male cerci slender, pointed, incurved; 

 subgenital lamina of male slightly compressed. 



Lerir/th 23 mm.; pronotum, 5 mm.; tegmina, 22 mm.; hind 

 femur, 13 mm. 



India (?). 



Ti/j)e in the collection of Brunner von '^Vatten^\■yl. 



