552 CATALOGUE OF 



South America. 

 5. CYRTACANTHACRIS CRIBRATA. 

 Acridium cribratum, Serv. Hist. Ortk. 648. 



Brazil. 







6. CYRTACANTHACRIS SUBSPURCATA. 



Mas. Fulva, caput et prothorax villa lata pallide lutea ; caput vertice 

 anlico piano, vitlis duabus lateralibus nigris lanceolalis luteo pallido 

 marginatis ; antenna apices versus nigra ; femora intermedia nigro 

 guttata ; femora postica exlus picea ; alee anticce cinerece, maculis 

 gutlisque nonnullis nigro venosis ; alee posticce pallide cinerece. 



Male. Tawny. Head and prothorax with a broad equal pale luteous 

 stripe. Head smooth, with a black lanceolate stripe on each side, extending 

 from the eye towards the mouth and broadly bordered with pale luteous; 

 cone in front of the eyes flat; front slightly rounded, nearly erect, with four 

 indistinct keels. Eyes piceous, oblique, elongate-oval. Antennae slender, 

 filiform, black for half the length from the tips. Prolhorax finely scabrous, 

 with a very slight ridge and with four slight transverse impressed lines, the 

 foremost line widely interrupted in the middle; breadth slightly increasing 

 from the hindmost line to the base of the fore wings; fore border very 

 slightly rounded; sides nearly straight; hind border much rounded. 

 Prosternal spine pale testaceous, thick, curved, elongate-conical, extending 

 to the fore border of the inesosteruum. Middle femora with black dots. 

 Hind femora a little longer than the abdomen, mostly piceous above and 

 on the outer side. Hind tibiae rather shorter than the hind femora ; spines 

 with black tips, those on the inner side longer than those on the outer side. 

 Fore wings cinereous, rather longer than the hind wings, with several spots 

 and dots of various size formed by black veins; three discoidal spots near 

 the base larger and mure determinate than the others, the spots being 

 there larger. Hind wings pale cinereous; veins white. Length of the 

 body 22 lines; expansion of the fore wings 44 lines. 



The prosternal spine is much paler and much stouter than that of 

 C. inscripta. 



a. Guayaquil. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



7. CYRTACANTHACKIS SUBVITTATA. 



Foam. Cervina, gracilis ; caput vertice nigro-biviltato anlice depresso 

 subconico, viltis duabus obliquis nigris; prolhoracis margo poslicus 

 subangulalus ; alee anticce apices versus maculis nonnullis e venis 

 nigricantibus ; alee posticce cinerece, apices versus pallide fusccscentes. 



Female. Fawn-colour, slender. Head smooth, with two slender black 

 stripes extending from the hind border on each side of the fore part, which 

 is depressed and somewhat conical ; a black oblique stripe on each side 

 between the eye and the mouth ; front punctured, slightly oblique, with 

 four distinct keels, the outer pair diverging much more than the inner pair 

 towards the face. Eyes fusiform. Prothorax finely scabrous, with a slight 



