696 CATALOGUE OF 



intus et subtus nigro univittata ; tibia posticee sordide viridescentes, 

 basi pallide ftavescentes ; alte antica cinerece, corpore breviores, venulis 

 transversis fusco nebulosis, villa postica diaphana lanceolata ; alee 

 posticee lutece, apice fuscescentes. 



Male. Tawny, moderately stout. Head and prothorax with two 

 black lines on each side, the outer pair irregular. Head rather short ; 

 vertex with two oblique brownish streaks ; tip flat, nearly triangular; front 

 thickly punctured ; keels distinct; inner keels nearly parallel ; outer keels 

 diverging towards the face. Eyes reddish, elliptical. Antenna pale testa- 

 ceous. Prothorax very finely scabrous ; disk nearly flat, with an extremely 

 slight middle keel, and with no lateral keels ; transverse impressed lines 

 very slight; fore border nearly straight; sides slightly rounded; hind 

 border much rounded. Prosternal spine short, transverse, thick, much 

 broader than thick. Hind femora as long as the abdomen, with two black 

 marks on the outer side, with a black stripe beneath, and wilh an irregular 

 black stripe on the inner side; hind tibiae shorter than the hind femora, 

 dingy greenish, darker beneath, pale yellowish towards the base ; spines 

 pale yellowish, their tips black. Fore wings cinereous, shorter than the 

 body ; veins tawny ; many of the transverse sectors clouded with brown ; a 

 pellucid lanceolate stripe with very pale veins along the hind border. 

 Hind wings luteous, transparent, brownish and with black veins towards 

 the tips. Length of the body 12 lines; expansion of the fore wings 22 

 lines. 



a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



43. CALOPTENUS PLENIPENNIS. 



Fceun. Testaceus, sat gracilis ; caput longiusculum, nigricante bistri- 

 gatunij fastigio elliplico, fronle nigricante-varia, slrigis quatuor 

 lateralibus albis ; prothorax subtilissime scaber, tricarinatus, nigri- 

 cante latissime univittatus ; prosterni spina robusta, lransversa, ro- 

 tundata ; femora postica abdomine iongiora, supra nigro triplagiata, 

 subtus nigro biseriatim guttata ; tibice posticce rufce, spinis pallide 

 Jtavis apice nigris; alee anticce diaphana, albido venosce abdomine 

 paullo longiores, plagis quatuor exterioribus maculis punctisque 

 nigricante cinereis nigro venosis. 



Female. Testaceous, rather slender. Head smooth, slightly elongate ; 

 vertex with two blackish slreaks which are united in front; tip depressed, 

 elliptical ; front partly blackish, wilh four slight keels ; inner keels nearly 

 parallel ; outer keels slightly diverging towards the face ; two white slreaks 

 on each side below the eye. Eyes subelliptical, much rounded on the hind 

 side. Antennae slender. Prothorax very finely scabrous, with* a very 

 broad blackish stripe; disk nearly flat, wilh three distinct keels ; transverse 

 impressed lines well defined ; fore border hardly rounded ; sides and hind 

 border rounded. Prosternal spine slout, transverse, rounded, more than 

 twice as broad as thick. Hind femora rather longer than the abdomen, 

 with three black patches above, and with two rows of black dots beneath ; 

 hind libicE red, somewhat shorter than the hind femora; spines pale yellow, 

 with black tips. Wings pellucid, a little longer than the abdomen. Fore 

 wings with whitish veins ; four large blackish-cinereous black-veined 



