ACRIDID*:. 643 



prothorace ad unum multo longiores. Prothorax dense punctatus, vix 

 caiinatus, postice sublatescens; margo posticus sat productus, vix 

 angulatus. Piosterni spina crassa, subobliqua, subcompressa. Femora 

 postica abdomini aequilonga. Ala? anlica? corpori fere aequilongas. 



Male. Body rather slender. Head smooth, rather higher than the 

 prothorax; tip of the vertex depressed, subbexagonal; front punctured, 

 with four well-defined nearly parallel keels. Eyes oblique, elliptical, rather 

 prominent. Antennae much longer than the head and the prothorax 

 together. Prothorax thickly punctured, slightly widening hindward ; keel 

 hardly perceptible ; transverse impressed lines distinct ; fore border straight ; 

 sides slightly rounded; hitid border slightly elongated, hardly angular. 

 Prosternal spine thick, slightly oblique and compressed, rounded at the tip. 

 Hind femora as long as the abdomen ; hind tibiae a little shorter than the 

 hind femora. Fore wings nearly as long as the body. 



1. EUPROPACRIS SPECTABILIS. 



Mas. Sordide viridis ; caput et prothorax nig ro late biviltnta; caput 

 apud oculos testaceum, verticis disco fr on teque nigris, carinis frontali- 

 busfulvis; antennce nigrte ; prosterni spina testacea ; abdomen 

 niyrum, subtus testaceum; pedes nigri, femoribus sub tits testaceis, 

 tibiis posticis obscure viridibus ; alee anticee cinerea ; aluc postica 

 ochracea, apices versus cinerece. 



Male. Dark dingy green. Head and prothorax with a broad black 

 stripe on each side. Head testaceous about the eyes; disk of the vertex 

 black; front black, with four tawny keels. Eyes dark red. Antennae 

 black. Prothorax with the two stripes extending to the fourth line. Pro- 

 sternal spine testaceous. Abdomen black, testaceous beneath. Legs 

 black ; femora testaceous beneath ; hind tibia? dark green, their spines 

 with black tips. Fore wings cinereous; veins tawny. Hind wings orange- 

 red and with red veins, cinereous and with brownish veins about the tips 

 and along the adjoining part of the exterior border. Length of the body 

 12 lines; expansion of the fore wings 24 lines. 



a. Cape. 



Genus 17. QUILTA. 

 Acridium (Quilta), Slal, Bug. Resa, 337. 



1. QOILTA MITRATA. 



Acridium (Quilta) mitratum, Stal, Eug. Resa, 337. 

 Isle Keeling. 



Genus 18. CHROMACBIS. 



Corpus sat gracile, fere cylindricum. Fastigiura conicum, depressum, 

 marginatum. Frons asperepunctata, carinis intermediis valde abbreviatis. 

 Oculi subprominuli. Antenna? filiformes, longs, graciles. Prothorax 

 antice sublaevis, postice scaber latescens carinatus, foveolis.transversis valde 

 determinatis, margine antico subinciso, margine postico valde rutunduto. 



