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CATANTOPINjE. 



slightly narrowed between the antennse ; beneath each eye is a 

 black band divided by a narrow yellow line, and the hind part of 

 the head is white behind this. Proiiotuni short, slightly produced 

 and truncated behind, with the three carinse pale, and two more or 

 less distinct triangular black spots on the front of the median 

 carina ; the transverse sutures fairly distinct, the hindmost placed 

 about the middle ; below the lateral cariiife the deflexed lobes 

 are marked with a quadrangular black spot, on which stands an 

 oblique yellowish callous spot, and some dots of the same colour ; 

 beneath, the lobes are yellow, intersected by a blackish streak, but 

 these markings scarcely extend beyond the hind suture. Tegmina 

 yellowish brown towards the base, and subhyaliue beyond, with 

 brown markings separated by pale ones, the most distinct being a 

 longitudinal row of pale spots ; wings hyaline, with the inner and 

 lower half red. Legs ochreous yellow ; hind femora mottled out- 

 side with blackish, and with two transverse black bands above, the 

 inner surface mostly black ; hind tibiae with 7-9 black-tipped 

 spines, lower inner spine distinctly longer than the upper. Pro- 

 sternal tubercle rather small, conical. 



Lengtli 21-30 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 30-50 mm. 



Kashmir : Baltistan ; Madras : Madura. 



Type in the British Museum. 



320. Caloptenopsis punctata, sp. uov. 



Brown. Pastigium of the vertex con- 

 cave, hardly longer than broad, face and 

 sides of head irregularly mottled with 

 white and brown ; antennse rather longer 

 than the head and pronotum together. 

 Pronotum obtusely rounded behind, the 

 sutures slightly inarked, the hindmost 

 placed about the middle ; the deflexed 

 lobes before the hind suture blackish, 

 with white markings, the hind lobe often 

 paler, especially at the sides. Tegmin 

 subhyahne, irregularly spotted Avith 

 brown, especially at the base ; wings 

 hyaline, with the lov\er inner half stained 

 with red. Hind femora with the outer 

 area whitish, with large black spots on the 

 bounding carinse, the longitudinal median 

 and the short oblique ridges reddish, 

 often more or less marked with dusky ; 

 hind tibiae red, with 8-9 s])ines on each side, lo\\er iinier spine 

 one-third longer than the upper. Prosterual spine rather large, 

 conical. 



Lenrjth 25-27 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 42-'J5 mm. 



Fig. 138. 



Caloptenopsis punctata. 



