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It is not easy to find a proper place in the system for this insect and the above 
mentioned New Zealandian genus Paprides and Indian Pilcolum seem to be its 
nearest, though by no means close, relatives. There are now three Central Asia- 
tic Alpine wingless genera, belonging to the group Catantopine (Acridiine) : 
Conophyma, Zub., Paraconophyma, Uvar.* and Dicranophyma, Uvar., and the 
last named is easily distinguished from two others because it belongs to the 
different section, without an outer apical spine on the hind tibiz. 
Sub-family : Tettigoniide. 
3. Hyphinomos, gen. nov. 
2. Related to the Palearctic genera Amphiestris and Onconotus but strongly 
differing from both in a number of characters. 
Antenne longer than the body, setaceous, with rather dense short hairs ; first 
joint thickened. Head short and thick, globose. Face vertical, convex, very 
broad, smooth. Fastigium of the vertex produced in the shape of a truncate 
tubercle, shallowly sulcate. Eyes small, but very prominent, perfectly round ; 
their lower margins on the same line with the bases of the antenne. 
Occiput broad, globose, smooth. Pronotum distinctly broader than long ; 
rugose: its disc scarcely convex near the fore margin, feebly, but distinctly, 
impressed behind the middle, with the hind margin slightly ascendent ; 
one feeble transverse sulcus at the end of the fore fourth of the disc ; fore 
margin slightly concave ; hind margin straight; all keels absent; lateral 
lobes very uneven, strongly rugose, with lower margins raised and a rather 
deep sub-marginal impression, the bottom of whichis finely longitudinally 
rugulose ; hind part of lobes forming a straight, though widely rounded angle 
with the surface of the dise ; general form of the lobes elongato-triangular, 
the fore margin being straight and slightly oblique, fore angle obtuse, rounded, 
lower margin in its fore part convex, then ascending obliquely to the shoulder, 
so that there is no separate hind margin. Prosternum with two small, obtuse 
widely separated tubercles. Mesosternum and metasternum transverse, 
thickened, without separated lobes. Elytra lateral, round. Cerci short, conical. 
Subgenital plate rather thick, transverse, slightly emarginate at the apex. 
Ovipositor thick, broad, feebly recurved in the apical third, with the disc 
longitudinally rugulose towards the apex. Fore coxe armed with a 
strong, somewhat decurved spine. Fore femora short, rather thick, not armed. 
Fore tibie thick, somewhat constricted in the middle, armed with an outer 
upper subapical spine and with six strong spines on each side of the lower side. 
Middle legs armed as the fore legs. Hind femora only twice as long as the 
middle femora, not reaching the apex of the abdomen (if the latter is not 
contracted) ; their basal half feebly incrassate ; the apical half bearing 8-10 
spinules along each of the lower carine. Hind tibie thick, slightly decurved ; 
all their keels obtuse, except the inner upper one, which is distinctly raised, 
rather sharp and armed with about 10 spinules ; outer upper keel with about 
8-10 small spinules ; the lower side with 4 inner and about 7 outer longer spines ; 
two pairs of short spurs, the lower pair being shorter than the upper one. All 
tarsi depressed, strongly bisuleate ; hind tarsi without moveable plantule. 
Genotype : Hyphinomos fasciata, sp. n. 
Hyphinomos fasciata, sp. n. 
Q. Head smooth, sparsely and finely punctured in the middle of the face 
and with two irregular rows of punctures on the occiput ; face whitish, with a 
black transverse fascia along the upper margin of the clypeus ; another shining 
black fascia runs across the bases of antenne, apex of the fastigium and eyes, 
* Ann. Mag. Nat. History, Ser. I, vol. VII, p. 497, 1921. 
