ACRIDID.E. 743 



76. (EDIPODA" BOTUNDATA. 



Mas. Fusca; caput areolis tribus marginatis, strigis duabus fulvis, 

 carinis quatuor frontalibus bene determinatis ; antenna fascia basali 

 teslacea ; prothorax brevis, carina bene determinata, margine postico 

 rotundato ; abdomen fulvum, fusco varium ; femora poslica intus 

 nigra albido bifasciata ; tarsi postici pallide testacei ; alee anticce 

 subdiaphance, breves, maculis basalibus plagis tribus guttisque fuscis, 

 guttis subapicalibus pallid issime fuscescentibus, costa convexa ; alee 

 posticcB diaphance, fusco late marginatce. 



Male. Brown, tawny beneath. Head short, with a tawny streak on 

 each side between the eye and the bind border; a curved impressed trans- 

 verse line on the vertex between the eyes ; tip truncate-conical, with 

 strongly-marked keels, each of which, with an exterior keel, includes a 

 lanceolate area ; the four keels of the front strongly marked, diverging 

 slightly towards the face. Antennae brown, testaceous towards the base, 

 which is brown. Prothorax short; keel and transverse furrows well 

 defined ; lateral keels apparent ; hind border rounded, not elongated. 

 Abdomen tawny, mottled with brown, pale testaceous beneath. Hind 

 femora a little longer than the abdomen ; inner side black, with two whitish 

 bands beyond the middle. Hind tibiae much shorter, black, with two 

 whitish bands. Hind tarsi pale testaceous. Four anterior femora and 

 tibiae with black bands. Wings short, slightly truncated. Fore wings 

 nearly pellucid ; veins pale testaceous, except in the brown markings; some 

 spots near the base; three large exterior patches; several dots between the 

 costa and the second and third patches and along the exterior part of the 

 costa ; apical space of the wing with very pale brownish dots ; costa rounded, 

 especially near the base ; some of the veins much bent hindward. Hind 

 wings pellucid, with a broad brown band on the exterior border; veins 

 white ; some black veins in the brown part. Length of the body 7j lines ; 

 expansion of the fore wings 15 lines. 



The ordinary structure of the fore wings of this species may be different 

 from that of the specimen described. 



a. N. Bengal. From Lieut. Campbell's collection. 



77. (EDIPODA? VULNEBATA. 



Gryllus Japonicus ? Thunb. Mem. Pet. ix. 429 Acridium (CEdipoda) 

 vulneratum, Huan, Verz. Gesch. Ned. Ind. Sez. Ins. 162, pi. 21, 

 f. 13. 



Japan. Java. Two species ? 



Australasia. 

 78. (EDIPODA CRISTELLA. 

 cristella, Stal, Eug. Resa, 344. 

 Java. Manilla. 



