IIETERACEIS. — TYLOTROPIUIFS. 



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Length 50 mm. ; hind femur, 34 ram. ; expanse of tegraina, 

 77 mm. 



North India. 



Type in the Britisli Museum. 



Genus TYLOTROPIDIUS. 



Tt/lotropidms, Stal, JRecens. Orth. i, lS7;3, p. 74. 



Type, PezotetfLv {Tylotroiyklius) didymus, 8t?il, from Sierra 

 Leone. 



Range. Africa, Burma, Ceylon. 



Fastigium of the vertex with two depressions at the base ; 

 front very oblique. Pronotnm with the front and iiind lobes 

 of equal length, with the lateral margins smooth and callous, 

 more or less converging. Tegmina and wings well developed, 

 the former densely reticulate in the postradial area, with no 

 intercalated nervure. Hind tibise witli from 9 to IS spines; 

 hind tarsi very long, the second joint half as long as the first. 

 Anal segment of the male not enlarged, the cerci narrow and 



compressed. Prosternaj tubercle bifid; 

 metasternal lobes of the female trun- 

 cated on the inner side, and connected 

 by a straight suture. 



32G. Tylotropidius varicornis, Wall-. 



Hderacris varicornis, Walker, Cat. 

 Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, p. 667. 



7)/lofroj)idius cei/lonicus, Bruimer, 

 Ann. Mils. Geneva, xxxiii, 1893, 

 p. 164, pi. V, tig. o7 (n. syn.). 



Pronotum brown, with the lateral 

 carinas pale, curving hindwards, where 

 they become evanescent, hind border 

 somewhat roundly angulate. Pro- 

 sternal tubercle compressed, truncated, 

 and slightly bituberculate at the ex- 

 tremity. Tegmina castaneous, with 

 a row of triangular whitish spots upon 

 tlie radial nervure and a pale longi- 

 tudinal stripe in the costal area; 

 wings bluish hyaline. Hind femora 

 thickened at the base, very slender 

 towards the tips, the upper carinse 

 sparsely serrated, with the sulci of 

 the outer area marked with brown, 

 two spots on the inner surface; hind 

 tibiae towards the extremity dull blue, with from 12 to 15 spines 

 on the outer carina ; tarsi dull blue; tibiae and tarsi very pilose. 



Fig. 140. 

 Tylotropidius varicorn is. 



