170 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vor. VI, 
Cauda green, long conical, with sharp tubercles and a few strong hairs. 
Legs green with knobbed hairs; only the tarsi are black with short first 
segment. 
The rostrum just reaches up to about the middle of the second and third coxae. 
Colour greenish with a smoky tip. 
Measurements of large specimens on an average are :— 
Body... ip je 25 1770275, uate 
Antennae ae ia RES MEN 
Cornicle LE be 9:06 0.75 me 
Cauda ne + .. 0166 mm. 
Alate viviparous female—Body long oval; prevailing colour green or slightly 
yellowish-green ; devoid of hairs. | 
Head black, triangular, with a narrow front carrying the median ocellus in the 
centre. - 
Frontal tubercles distinct, strongly porrected (as in the apterous female) into a 
pointed tooth without capitate hairs. 
Antennae black, about equal to the body length; a long spur to the sixth joint, 
third joint strongly tuberculate. 
Sensoria, 16-19 on III; 5-7 on IV. The primary sensoria on V and VI have a 
strong ‘‘ hair-rim.’’ 
Length proportions :— 
III. ID We Wale 
24 16 15 6+29 
Lengths.. ‘40 ‘26 ‘25 ‘10 +40 mm. 
The prothorax is sharp-edged and broad posteriorly and has a black band near the 
front margin, two black dorsal dots on the sides and a green transverse stripe behind. 
Mesothorax large, yellowish, with four shining black muscle-lobes on the top; 
on the sides a large stigmal spot, black in colour. 
The metathorax is narrow and has two lateral spots and a crescentic band near 
the posterior edge. ae 
Abdomen ovate with a wavy margin; the colour is green; darker green central 
and two lateral stripes are indistinctly apparent. 
The pattern of black dots and stripes, as shown in the figure, is made up of :— 
(i) Three large black spots on the carina. 
(ii) Four (plus an indistinct fifth) broad black stripes on the posterior half of 
the abdomen. The one just in front of the cornicles is crescentic. 
(ii) A double row of fairly large spots on the lateral grooves, of which the first 
three segments have both the spots confluent with each other, making 
the spot appear a very broad one. The fourth segment has them 
separated, one spot just in front of the cornicles and almost in line with 
the three larger carinal ones, the other touching the second broad ab- 
