202 FAMILY V.— ACRIDIIN^. 



scurely mottled with fuscous at least above, where there is 

 generally a broad median blackish stripe and a post-ocular 

 piceous band; vertex gently tumid, scarcely elevated above 

 the pronotum; fastigium steeply declivent, narrow, equal, 

 deeply (male) or shallowly (female) sulcate, the lateral mar- 

 gins sharp ; frontal costa percurrent; eyes moderately large, 

 a little prominent. Pronotum short, distinctly but not 

 greatly expanding on the metazona,the post-ocular stripe of 

 the lateral lobes extending over the prozona, broader and 

 more distinct than on the head, the disk very broadly con- 

 vex, passing into the sub- vertical lateral lobes by a distinct 

 but always rounded shoulder nowhere forming lateral car- 

 inge ; median carina slight, scarcely less distinct on the pro- 

 zona than on themetazona, cut only by the principal sulcus. 

 Prosternal spine not very long, conico-cylindrical, more or 

 less appressed, sub-erect. Tegmina reaching about to the 

 tips of the hind femora, sometimes a little short of, some- 

 times surpassing them, rather slender and 

 sub-equal, brownish fuscous, more or less 

 distinctly but never heavily maculate with 

 fuscous along the discoidal area. Fore 

 and middle femora a little tumid in the 

 male; hind femora luteo-testaceous, out- 



' _ ' Fig. 127. — Mclano- 



side (excepting below) more or less deeply P/usm/aor, tip of male 



\ t^ o I i^ -f abdomen. Original. 



infuscated, the infuscation sometimes con- 

 sisting of more or less well marked, very oblique, dusky fascia- 

 tions, which also cross the upper face, the lower face gener- 

 ally dull orange; hind tibiae very variable but generally 

 nearly uniform in color, pale red'or glaucous being the pre- 

 vailing color, but they are sometimes plumbeous or yellow- 

 ish; spines black tipped, ten to twelve, usually eleven, in 

 number in the outer series. 



Extremity of male abdomen as shown in Fig. 127. 



Length of body, male. 19 mm., female, 24 mm.; antennge, 

 male 8 mm., female, 9 mm. ; tegmina, male, 14 mm., female,- 

 16.5 mm.; hind femora, male, 11.25 mm., female, 13 mm. 



