the Tetriginm in the Oxford University Museum. 409 



nearly equal in length, but the first and second acute ; middle 

 femora ampliate toward the bases in the male. 



Entire length of body, male, 7 mm. ; pronotum passing apices of 

 hind femora 5 mm. ; posterior femora 3*8 mm. 



One example from " Equinoctial Africa," in University 

 Museum, Oxford. 



Genus Xistra, Bolivar. 



1. X. stylata, Hancock, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 231, 



1907. 



One male example from Kandy, Ceylon, collected by E. 

 Ernest Green ; presented by Malcolm Burr to the Uni- 

 versity Museum, Oxford. 



The type example, a female, is in the author's collection. 

 It is from Putlam, Ceylon. 



Section TETTIGIJE. 

 Genus EuPARATETTix, Hancock. 



1. E. personatus, Bol. Ann. Soc. Ent, Belg. xxxi, p. 278, 



1887. 



Two male examples ; one from Bengal, India ; the other 

 from Java, the latter specimen collected and presented by 

 J. W. Miers to the University Museum, Oxford. 



Two characters which distinguish this species are : the 

 fuscous or black posterior tibiae which bear one white 

 annulation behind the knee, and the arcuate frontal costa 

 which is narrowly compressed. At first sight this species 

 recalls the genus Systoledcrus. 



2. E. pilosus, sp. nov. 



Resembling personntns. Head little compre'sso-elevated ; eyes 

 elevated above the dorsum ; vertex narrower than one of the eyes ; 

 narrowed forward, not at all produced beyond the eyes ; frontal costa 

 convexly protuberant between the antennae, little sinuate between 

 the eyes (not arcuate as in personatns) the rami somewhat evenly 

 divergent, moderately sulcate. Pronotum slightly scabrous, often 

 fusco-bimaculate behind the disc; forward at the anterior margin and 

 just behind the prozona constricted ; median carina undulate, little 

 compresso-elevated behind the anterior margin ; humeral angles 

 carinate, dorsum between the shoulders subconvex ; posterior process 

 lengthily subulate extended much beyond the posterior femoral 

 apices ; posterior angles of the lateral lobes rounded. Elytra oval, 



