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spines ; anterior femora with a distinct blunt spine near apex : 

 tegmina long, narrow, much longer than body, about apical third 

 with transverse veins, clavus without a transverse vein, inner 

 claval vein very short and terminating a little beyond base ; 

 wings about one-third shorter thau tegmina, with a few transverse 

 veins on apical area. 



This genus is allied to Dictyopliai-oides, Fowl. (Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Rhynch. Horn, i, p. 44, 1900), from which it may be at once 

 sejjarated by the non-serrate anterior femora, a character omitted 

 in Fowler's diagnosis ; it is also allied to the Ethiopian genus 

 Simotettix, Stal, but differs by the non-dilated anterior legs. 



1782, Miasa smaragdilinea, Walk. (Elidlptera) J. Linn. Soc, Zool. i. 

 p. 86 (1857) ; id. (Dictyiophora) List Horn. Suppl. p. 318 (1858). 



Ferruginous- brown ; head with cephalic process black above, 

 green beneath and on lateral areas, margins of vertex green ; 

 face green with the central ridge testaceous ; clyeus black, with 

 a broad ochraceous transverse fascia near its base and with two 

 small central spots of the same colour ; anterior marginal area 

 and posterior lateral angles of pronotum, a broad central fascia 

 to mesonotum, and central and lateral fasciae to abdomen above 

 pale green or ochraceous ; body beneath black ; lateral areas of 

 sternum and legs ochraceous ; anterior tibiae with a prominent 

 subapical creamy-white annulation ; posterior margins of sternal 



Fig. lOS. — 3Iiasa smaragdiliiiea. 



segments, metanotum, and posterior abdominal segmental margins 

 stramineous ; coxae and trochanters black ; tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, the venation ochraceous or fuscous ; tegmina with the 

 posterior margin broadly dull ochraceous, the stigma and an 

 oblique apical streak fuscous ; wings with an apical fuscous 

 spot ; cephalic process as long as remainder of head and pronotum 

 together. 



