nEXERACKIS. 2G3 



spots towards the extremity. Tegmina yellowish suhhyaline, 

 closely reticulated towards the base with rufous nervures ; wings 

 hyaline, with a bluish iridescence towards tlie base. Hind femora 

 longer than the abdomen, greenish yellow, darker above, and not 

 serrated ; hind tibire and tarsi red, tibia) with the extreme base 

 blackish, shining, and with 12 to 14 yellow black-tipped spines. 



Length 58-65 mm. ; hind femora. 40-42 mm. ; expanse of 

 tegmina, 115-120 mm. 



Assam : Sylhet. 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



323. Heteracris illustris, Weill-. 



Hptemo-is iUustris, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, LSTO, 

 pp. 663, 664. 



Head almost uniform yellowish, with a brown stripe nearly 

 uniform in widtli, broadly bordered on each side with yellow, 

 extending over the vertex and upper part of the pronotum ; 

 vertex carinated ; fastigium depressed, obtusely and roundly 

 angulate in front ; frontal ridge not much expanded below, 

 punctured ; the face probably brownish in fresh specimens, a 

 moderately narrow blue-black stripe beneath each eye. Pro- 

 notum coarsely punctured, the sides brownish, with whitish 

 depressions above, and yellowish spots below. Tegmina sub- 

 hyaline, with reddish nervures, and with small scattered black 

 spots on the disk, not extending to the costal or inner marginal 

 areas. Hind femora yellowish, streaked ^ith reddish ; hind 

 tibiae and tarsi purplish blue, the former with from 11 to 13 

 white black-tipped spines. 



LeixjtJi 70 mm. ; hind femur, 43 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 

 116 mm. 



South India. 



2'i/i)e in the British Museum. 



324. Heteracris capensis, Tlninb. 



Gn/llns capmshi, Tbiiiiberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb. v, 1815, p. 240^ 



ix, 1824, pp. 399, 4l^3, pi. xiv, fig. 6. 

 Heteracris wsiepa's, AValker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 



pp. 663, 664 (u. syu.). 



Dull yellowish, Fastigium of the vertex depressed, short, 

 rounded, a narrow black line below the eyes, frontal ridge 

 sparingly punctured, like the rest of the face, and not much 

 expanded ; vertex and back of pronotum with a uniformly broad 

 brown longitudinal stripe, broadly bordered with yellow on both 

 sides. Pronotum thickly punctured, with large punctures on the 

 I'idge behind the imperfect lateral carina\ sides brownish, with 

 two large whitish j)its above on the anterior lobes. Abdomen 

 leddish. Hind femora reddish above and yellowish below ; hind 

 tibije yellowish, with from 11 to 13 black-tipped spines. Tegmina 



