A NEW CEYLONESE TETTTCID. 113 



A NEW CEYLONESE TETTIGID (ORTHOPTERA) OF THE 

 GENUS EURYiVIORPHOPUS. 



By J. L. Hancock. 



With one Figure. 



THE following description of a new Tettigid is based on four 

 specimens recently received from Mr. E. Ernest Green, 

 Government Entomologist of Ceylon. These interesting little 

 Orthoptera belong to the genus Eurymorphopus , which was first 

 described by the author in Genera Insectorum.* Only one other 

 species is known, namely, \£?. cundatus, Bolivar, which is from the 

 Island of New Caledonia. The latter species forms the type of the 

 genus, and is like tlie present species in being small and apterous, 

 but unlike it in several specific characters. Owing to these differ- 

 ences it may be necessarj'' to modify the definition of the genus 

 slightly to receive both species. Mr. Green informs the author that 

 the new species, E. latilobv^, here described, " frequents the surface 

 of dry rocks' in the shade of the jungle." They were taken at 

 Undugoda in September, 1907. 



In a previous work by the present author, on the " Tettigidse of 

 Ceylon ," sixteen Ceylonese genera were recognized, f To this number 

 the genus Eurymorphopus , Hancock, may now be added. It belongs 

 in the third sub-tribe " Metrodorinse " of my table there presejited. 



Eurymorphopus latilobus, sp. no v. (Fig. 1.) 



Body small, apterous, depressed, conspersed with granulations, 

 the lateral lobes very widely dilated; the hind femora propor- 

 tionately stout ; colour fuscous or fusco-ferrugineous variegated with 

 light ochreous yellow, especially on the lateral lobes of pronotum and 

 legs. Vertex barely produced beyond the eyes, viewed from above 

 very narrow, strongly narrowed forward, triearinate, subacuminate, 

 and slightly longitudinally canaliculate on either side of the small, 

 abbreviated, median carina ; at the middle of vertex between the 

 eyes the width scarcely more than one-half that of one of the eyes. 

 Head but very slightly elevated above the dorsum of pronotum ; 

 eyes globose, the occiput behind only little exposed ; face oblique, 

 the frontal costa depressed and but little roundly elevated between 

 the antennae ; posterior ocelli situated oppcsite the lower third of 

 the eyes ; antennae short, filiform, not so long as the vertical facial 

 diameter of the head, inserted little below the eyes. Pronotum 



* 48th Fascicule, pp. 35-36, 1906. t Spolia Zeylanica, Vol. II., 1904. 

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