508 Records and Descriptions of Indian Acridide. 
rounded, bent downwards apically. Last abdominal tergite 
very large. Subgenital plate transverse, very obtuse. 
Genotype: Hupreponotus inflatus, sp. n. 
43. Hupreponotus inflatus, sp. 0. 
Antenne distinctly longer than head and pronotum to- 
gether. Frontal ridge subparallel-sided, narrowed near 
fastigium and feebly constricted below ocellum; slightly 
excavated below ocellum; coarsely impresso-punctate 
throughout ; its margins raised, shining, obtuse. Facial 
keels raised, smooth, almost straight. Subocellar keels 
obtuse, low, smooth, with a féw very feeble impressions. 
Pronotum not punctured, but opaque on its whole surface 
except along the lateral keels and shoulders of metazona, 
which are rugosely impresso-punctate. Lateral lobes slightly 
higher than long, opaque; their lower margin with a widely 
rounded coxal angle, oblique and feebly concave before it ; 
fore angle obtuse, rounded ; hind angle a little more than 
90°, rounded. Elytra extending beyond the hind knees, 
rather narrow, not densely venulated. 
General coloration fawn, with dull black and pale mark- 
ings. Hace velvety olive-brown, with keels and frontal 
ridge shining; cheeks fawn, shining, with darker clouding ; 
vertex and occiput fawn, with a velvety-black longitudinal 
fascia, prolonged on to the pronotum, where it is included 
between two half as broad light fawn stripes ; median carina 
of pronotum fawn, shining; lateral lobes velvety fawn with 
a stripe along the upper margin, between the lateral and 
sublateral keels, all sulci and a narrow stripe along the hind 
margin, black ; all margins of pronotum pale, shining. 
Elytra hyaline, with veins brown; anal field blackish brown ; 
base of mediastinal and discoidal areas, as well as a longi- 
tudinal stripe along the axillar vein, yellowish. Hind 
femora fawn, with three irregular black fasciz (not reaching 
the lower margin) in the externo-median area; upperside 
almost unicolorous ; inside yellowish, with a reddish shade 
in the basal half, an indefinite spot at the middle of the 
upper carina, and a postmedian transverse fascia black ; 
the latter fascia extending on to the lower surface of the 
femora; knees with semilunar black spots and light lobes. 
Hind tibiz red. Hind tarsi brownish red. 
3. 
mun. 
Length of body ........ 28°5 
pronotum .... 6 
3 ely tr 4 .<e f 265 
5s hind femur ., 18 
