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CATAKTOPIJ^^, 



subliyaline, with reddisli nervures, and numerous brown spots on 

 tlie disk, the outer ones with paler centres, and sometimes showing 

 a tendency to become confluent ; wings greyisii hyahue. 



Lenytli 57 mm. ; hind femur, 35 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 

 92 mm. 



Himalayas ; Bengal : Calcutta ; Madras : Coromandel 

 Coast ; Ceylon ; Burma : Bhamo ; China : 8. Africa, &c. 



325. Heteracris elegaiis, Walh. 



Heteracris e/ef/(ms, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 

 pp. 662, 663. 



Yellow. Eastigiiim of the vertex not depressed, but with some 

 large punctures on each side near the extremity, aud passing into 



the frontal ridge, which is 

 equally broad throughout, and 

 bordered by narrow black lines 

 on each side, outside which are 

 light brownish bands ; a brown 

 band, expanded behind, runs 

 over the vertex and frontal 

 ridge ; on the latter, the centre 

 is yellowish ; there is also a 

 short blackish streak under 

 each eye; median carina of 

 the vertex obsolete. Pronotum 

 thickly punctured, with a red- 

 dish brown longitudinal band 

 above, bordered on each side 

 by broad yellow ones ; the sides 

 reddish brown, bordered all 

 round with yellow, and with 

 four yellow spaces, the two 

 uppermost largest, the lower 

 hind space linear. Femora 

 yellow, the upper carinte im- 

 perfectly lined with black 

 towards the base ; tibiae aud 

 tarsi dull green, the tibiae with 

 12 to 13 white black-tipped 

 spines, and the terminal spurs 

 yellow. Tegmina subliyaline, 

 with two longitudinal greenish- 

 yellow spaces, and numerous 

 brown pale-centred spots on 

 the disk, with a tendency to 

 Fig. 139. — Heteracris elcgans. become confluent and trans- 



verse ; there are also rows of 

 dark spots on the costal area, aud towards the base on the 

 inner marginal area; wings hyaline. 



