740 CATALOGUE OF 



S. Asia. 

 72. (EDTPODA SAIURATA. 



Mas. Fusca, subtus fulva , caput lineolis duabus angulosis niyri*, 

 fastigio hexagonali, carinis quatuor frontatibus bene determinalis ; 

 prothorax tuberculatus, carina bene determinata, margine postico 

 rotundato ; abdomen vitta interrupla nigra fulvo maculata ; femora 

 postica fascia subapictili strigaque snbtus niyris ; tibiae posticae cyanetf, 

 basi nigrae albido unifasciatce; tarsi postici albidi ; alee anticce 

 nigricantes, plagis duabus punctisque plnrimis exlerioribus cinereis ; 

 al<& posticce obscure cinerece, nigricante marginatce, basi rosece. 



Acridiuip cinctiferaur, Walk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3rd Set: iv. 223. 



Male and female. Brown, tawny beneath. Head with two black 

 zigzag lines, which converge from tbe hind border to the middle of the 

 vertex; tip of tbe vertex broad, hexagonal; front slightly rugulose, with 

 four strongly-marked keels which diverge towards the face. Eyes elliptical. 

 Prothorax luberculate, with a well-defined keel and with the usual trans- 

 verse furrows; hind border rounded. Abdomen tawny, with an interrupted 

 black stripe which contains two rows of tawny spots. Hind femora as long 

 as the abdomen in the female, with an irregular black band near the tip 

 and with a short broad black stripe beneath. Hind tibia3 blue, much 

 shorter than the hind femora, black and with a whitish band near the base, 

 their spines with black tips. Hind tarsi whitish. Fore wings blackish, 

 with two cinereous patches and with many exlerior cinereous points ; veins 

 in the patches testaceous. Hind wings dark cinereous, black-veined, 

 diffusedly blackish bordered, slightly rosy and with bright rose-coloured 

 veins towards the base and along the interior border. Length of the body 

 10 12 lines; expansion of the fore wings 24 26 lines. 



a d. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



e. Ceylon. From the Rev. J. Wenham's collection. 



73. (EDIPODA VENUSTA. 



Mas. Fulva, subtus Jlava ; caput et protkorax fuscescenle biplagiata ; 

 caput lineolis duabus pallide jlavis, vertice luberculafa, fronts sub- 

 rugulosa subquadricarinata ; antenna apices versus nigricantes ; pro- 

 thorax sub tuber culatus, cnrina bene determinata, margine postico 

 elongato rotundato ; abdomen Jlavum, villa nigra flavo guttala ; 

 femora postica nigro bifasciata ; tibia posticce cyanece, basi alba ; 

 tarsi postici albidi; aloe antica subdiaphana , basi fulva, plaga 

 costali guttisque nonnullis e venis pallide testaceis, venis exterioribus 

 marginalibus fusco nebulosis ; alee posticce diaphana, basiflavcs, villa 

 lala abbreviata nigricante. 



Male. Tawny, yellow beneath. Head and prothorax with a brownish 

 patch on each side. Head on each side with two pale yellow lines which 

 diverge from the hind border of the eye to the hind border; vertex with 

 two lines which are each composed of four tubercles and converge in front; 

 tip of the vertex broad, hexagonal ; front slightly rugulose, with four 

 slight diverging keels. Eyes elliptical. Antenna? blackish towards the 



