ACRIDID/E. 709 



Male. Piceous, slender. Head and prothorax slightly rugulose and 

 tuberculate, and with a very slight keel. Head short; tip of the vertex 

 depressed, elongate-quadrilateral ; front with four well-defined keels ; inner 

 keels parallel ; outer keels diverging towards the face. Eyes lurid, ellip- 

 tical. Antennae rather stout, slightly flattened, longer than the head and 

 the proihorax together. Prothorax with hardly perceptible lateral keels, 

 not widening hindward ; transverse impressed lines distinct ; fore border, 

 sides and hind border rounded. Prosternal spine whitish, stout, elongate- 

 conical. Abdomen reddish, testaceous beneath. Hind femora longer than 

 the abdomen, bright red on the inner side and beneath ; hind tibiae bright 

 red, rather shorter than the hind femora, their spines with black tips. 

 Fore wings a little longer than the abdomen ; areolets pale cinereous. 

 Hind wings pellucid; veins yellow; tips cinereous, with blackish veins. 

 Length of the body 7 12 lines; expansion of the fore wings 12 24 

 lines. 



a c. Australia. From Mr. Darnel's collection. 



67. CALOPTENUS LEPIDUS. 



Mas. Testaceus, gracilis ; capul et prothorax piceo late bivittata ; caput 

 longiusculum, fastigio longo lineari depresso antice conico, fronte 

 subrugulosa ; antenna fulvee; prothorax subscaber, subcarinalus ; 

 proslerni spina transversa, longiuscula ; femora poslica abdomine 

 longiora, fasciis duabus apiceque nigris ; tibia posticce rafte, basi 

 albidce, spinis albidis apice nigris; alee anticce ferrugir^ece, cor pore 

 perpaullo breviores, apice cinerece, striga postica testacea lanceolata ; 

 alee postica basi rosea. 



Male. Testaceous, slender. Head and prothorax with two broad 

 piceous stripes. Head elongate, smooth ; tip of the vertex long, linear, 

 excavated, conical in front; front slightly rugulose ; keels distinct, diverging 

 slightly towards the face. Eyes elliptical, ferruginous. Antennas tawny, 

 longer than the head and the prothorax together. Prothorax finely scabrous, 

 with a very slight middle keel ; transverse impressed lines distinct ; fore 

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

 Prosternal spine transverse, rather long and stout, rounded at the tip. Ab- 

 domen slightly compressed. Hind femora rather longer than the abdomen, 

 with two black bands and with black tips ; hind tibiae bright red, whitish 

 at the base, shorter than the hind femora; spines whitish, with black tips. 

 Fore wings ferruginous, nearly as long as the body, cinereous towards the 

 tips; a testaceous lanceolate streak along the hind border; veins ferru- 

 ginous. Hind wings cinereous, pellucid, rosy and with rosy veins towards 

 the base and along the interior border ; veins elsewhere black. Length of 

 the body 1 1 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 22 lines. 



a. Australia. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



