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I. 1. Vertex distinctly wider than one of the 
eyes, narrowed toward the front, imper- 
fectly marginate, or subtruncate. 
2. Hind femora with the superior margin 
above distinctly lobate-serrulate, and 
toward the base costate ; inferior mar- 
gin subtuberculate ; spine on each side 
of the lateral lobes of the pronotum 
moderately produced, acute, and sub- 
transverse, the margin behind strongly 
sinuate a: a curticornis, Sp. nov. 
2.2. Hind femoral margins above not at all 
or scarcely dentate; spine on each side 
of the lateral lobes of the pronotum 
acute and oblique, and strongly pro- 
duced. 
3. Median carina of the pronotum behind 
the shoulders depressed, dorsum be- 
tween the humeral angles convex; 
posterior femora above sparingly lo- 
bate a si saginatus, Bolivar. 
3. 3. Median carina of the pronotum behind 
the shoulders not or barely depressed ; 
dorsum between the humeral angles 
subdeplanate ; posterior femora above 
entire, not at all dentate .. .. bispinosus, Dalm. 
Acanthalobus miliarius, Bolivar. 
Criotettix miliarius, Bol., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg,, xxxi, p. 226, 
1887. 
Acanthalobus miliarius, Hanc. Spol. Zeylan., ii, p. 155, pl. 2, 
fig. 8, 1904. 
Hanc. Gen. Ins. Orth. Acrid. Tetr., p. 29, pl. 2, fig. 19, 1906. 
Habitat.—Trincomalee, Nov. 1906; Colombo; Ceylon. Ind. 
Mus, coll. 
Acanthalobus cuneatus, Hancock, J. c. 1904, is apparently the 
short-wing form of miliarius. 
Acanthalobus curticornis, sp. nov. 
Yellowish-rufescent, darker ‘on the dorsum of pronotum for- 
ward and on the front of the head. Vertex strongly wider than 
one of the eyes, narrowed forward toward the front, subfossulate 
on each side, front imperfectly marginate, subtruncate, median 
carina very small, little elevated and subproduced ; antennae very 
short, inserted between the lower part of the eyes; frontal costa 
arcuate-elevated between the antennae and depressed at the ver- 
tex. Pronotum with the dorsum deplanate, between the shoulders 
convex and rather wide, bearing rounded tubercles irregularly dis- 
