254: CATAXTOPlXiE. 



to the knees below the upper outer cariua ; on the inner upper 

 surface are several large black spots; tibiae and tarsi red, the tibiae 

 ■with 8 or U black-tipped spines. 



Lengtli. 28-33 mm. ; expanse of tegmiua, 4S-60 mm. 



North Bioxgal. 



Tiipe in the British Museum. 



Genus STENOCROBYLUS. 



Sfcnocrof/i//u!<, Gerstaecker, Arch. Xaturg. xxxv, 1869, p. 219. 



Type, Stoiocrohijhts cervuw.s, Gerst., from Zanzibar. 



Kamje. Africa, India. 



Eyes (in the type at least) closely approximating, vertex very 

 narrow ; pronotum with a slight median carina ; prosternal 

 tubercle compressed, almost bilobate ; tegmiua and wings well 

 •developed ; liind legs stout, rather long, hind tibiae with 8 spines 

 •on the outer carina ; metasternal lobes of female rather widely 

 separated. 



■313. Stenocrobylus femoratus, BoJ. 



Stvwirolijlusfemorahis, Bolivar, Aim. Soe. I'^nt. France, Ixx, 190i^ 

 p. (523. 



Eeddish above, greenish belo\\-, pilose. Vertex very narrow 

 between the ey(3s, liardly broader than the width of the antennte, 

 fastigium concave ; front slightly sloping, coarsely punctnred 

 towards the clypeus, with many green spots ; frontal ridge 

 smooth, punctnred in the middle, arched near the vertex, and 

 slightly narro\^■ed towards the extremity ; antennne greenish. 

 Pronotum punctured, slightly hairy in front, and smoother and 

 ■obtusely angulated behind, with a slight median carina, and the 

 hinder sulcus placed rather behind the middle ; the deflexed 

 lobes higher than long, narrowly rounded behind, with a broad 

 red baud traversing the lower part of the lobes. Tegmiua green, 

 •distinctly narrowed towards the tips, extending for half their 

 length beyond the abdomen. Anterior legs green; hind femora 

 thick, reddish, with the carinte of the outer area spotted with 

 l)lack, knees with a black curve o)i both sides ; hind tibise green, 

 with long grey pile. Prosternal tubei'cle subcuneiform, slightly 

 transverse; metasternal lobes moderately distant behind the 

 foveolje in the female. 



Length 20 nnn. ; pronotum, 4 mm.; tegmiua, S'o mm.; hind 

 femur, 12 mm. 



^Iadras : Madura. 



Tiipe in the collection of M. Pantel. 



