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jj. Anterior tibi.-c above armed with a small spine 

 back of the foramina. Pronotum smooth, but 

 with the impressions roughened or opaque. 

 The subgenital plate of cf longer, attenuate, 

 and fissured. 

 k. Ovipositor with its apex acuminate. 



I. Tegmina with their apex rounded, a little 



shorter than the wings. Posterior 

 femora unarmed below on the outer 

 margin (except in Theudoria nigro- 

 lineaia, in which both margins are 

 spined). 



m. Subgenital plate of cf moderately 

 attenuate. Last ventral segment 

 of 9 abdomen not different from 

 the others . . Homoloicha Brunner. 

 mm. Subgenital plate of & strongly 

 attenuate and elongate, pro- 

 foundly fissured. Last ventral 

 segment of 9 abdomen much 

 larger than the rest, trapezoidal. 

 Subgenital plate of 9 very short, 

 transverse Theudoria Stal. 



II. Tegmina with their apex obtuse, obliquely 



truncate. Posterior femora below with 

 both margins spined. (Last ventral 

 segment of 9 abdomen not different 

 from the rest. Subgenital plate of the 

 9 elongate, with the apex truncate and 

 terminating on each side with a narrow 



appendix) Parascudderia Brunner. 



kk. Ovipositor with its apex rounded. (Hind 

 femora with both margins armed.) 

 I. Posterior femora simply spined below. 

 Wings with their disc hyaline. 



Ceraia Brunner. 

 II. Posterior femora below lobato-dentate. 

 Wings with their disc red. 



Vellea Walker. 

 a. Tegmina with their radial veins, except at the apex, 

 contiguous, the radial branch running out at the 

 apex, or defiexed into the posterior margin of the 

 elytra. 

 j. Branch of the posterior radial vein straight, 

 running out in the apex of the elytra. Ovi- 

 positor suddenly curved at the base, acumi- 

 nate, the margins crenulate throughout. 



