268 CATANTOPIN.E. 



329. Euprepocnemis pulchra, Bol. 



Euprepocnemis jnilchra, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, Ixx, 1902, 

 p. 630. 



Olivaceous. Head pale red, broadly bauded with black below 

 the eyes ; front sligbrly oblique, froutal ridge nearly i)arallel- 

 sided, narrowed towards the clypeus, impress-punctate; fastigium 

 of the vertex smooth, nearly transverse, slightly sulcated ; antennae 

 ])ale above, brown below. Pronotum with a broad velvety-black 

 stripe on the back, distinctly expanded and paler in the middle, 

 the borders green, the median carina compressed in front, with 

 the deflexed lobes testaceous brown. Prosternal tubercle sub- 

 cylindrical, compressed in front, and obtuse towards the tip. 

 Tegmina extending beyond the hind femora in the male, but not 

 in the female, thickly spotted with brown or green, anal area 

 green. Femora pale red or green, obscurely spotted with brown, 

 with a broad pale ring before the extremity, black at the base on 

 the inner side, aud with the knees marked with black curves ; 

 hind tibiae brown at the base, with a pale ring, the apical half 

 dull red, the spines white, tipped with black. Cerci compressed, 

 curved. 



Length 22-25 mm.; pronotum, 4*5-9 mm.; tegmina, 20- 

 36 mm.; hind femur, 13-29 mm. 



Madras : Kodaikanal. 



Types in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar. 



