CATANTOPS. 



253 



cariiise, tlie outer slightly divergent below : frontal ridge uniform 

 in width, sliallowly sulcated. Pi-onotum finely punctured, «ith 

 the sulci fairly well-marked ; the last placed about the middle, 

 hinder edge obtusely rounded ; a moderately broad blackish band 

 runs behind the eye to the extremity of the defiexed lobes. 

 Prosternal spine thick, obtusely rounded at tlie extremity ; abdo- 

 men reddish. Tegraina greyish subhyahne, mottled with brown, 

 especially towards the middle, hinder area pale, perhaps greenish 

 or reddish in life ; wings iridescent hyaline, brick-red towards the 

 base along the veins. Hind femora yellowish outside and above, 

 and reddish within, with two black streaks in the outer upper 

 carina; opposite them, on the inner side above, and slight)}' 

 extending to the inner area, are two transverse black bands ; the 

 knees are also marked with black on each side ; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi red with black-tipped spines, the tibia; with 9 or 10 on each 

 side. 



Lenc/th 37 mm.; expanse of tegmina, 78 mm. 



India {?). 



T)jpe in the British Museum. 



312. Catantops erubescens, Wallc 



Cdloptenus erubescens, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. BM. iv, lS70, 

 p. 703. 



Eeddish brown, finely punctured. Frontal ridge very slightly 

 depressed in the male, and flattened in the female, subparallel- 



sided ; autenucT yellowish, mode- 

 rately stout, filiform, about as 

 long as the head and pronotum 

 together. Pronotum with the 

 median carina and sulci onlv 

 slightly marked, the hind sulcus 

 placed just behind the middle, 

 the hinder border obtusely 

 rounded ; a blackish stripe runs 

 behind each eye, which is paler 

 and broader on the metapleura. 

 Prosternal tubercle thick, obtuse; 

 abdomen light brown, ratlier 

 shining. Tegmina subhyaline, 

 brown towards the base, and 

 mottled with brown beyond, the 

 hinder area pale, perhaps reddish 

 in life, with some scattered black 

 spots ; wings hyaline, rose-red 

 towards the base. Hind femora 

 reddisli, inclining to yellow out- 

 side, with a broad black stripe on the outer upper area, obsolete 

 lit the base and towards the extremity; and another extendiuo- 



Fig. 134. — Cittaii/djjs eruhcscois. 



