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SUBFAM. BRADYPORIN/E (= D E R A C A N T H I N /E | 



This subfamily is composed of half a dozen somewhat closely allied genera of clumsy, heavy 

 bodied insects, often of bright colors. The species are mostly of long standing, having been described, 

 and usually well figured, by early authors. 



The members of this group occur in Europe and Asia. They seem to prefer open infertile 

 country where they live on the ground or on shrubbery, etc. The males stridulate all day long, accor- 

 ding to remarks made on a common European species by Brunner, and the female is almost certain to 

 be found near by. 



Finding no character tenable for the separation of the six genera here discussed into two groups 

 I feel constrained to supress the subfamily Dearacanthinse. It is accordingly sunk into the synonymy 

 under Bradyporinae. 



The Bradyporinae are insects with short legs and large heavy bodies. They have four-jointed 

 tarsi which are more or less depressed and provided with rounded or spinose pads beneath; hind tarsi 

 with the third joint shorter than the second. Anterior and posterior tibia furnished above with an apical 

 spine on each side, the anterior tibia with foramina. Antennae situated below the eves or between their 

 lower margins, nearer the clypeal suture than the top of the head. The prosternum is either unarmed 

 or armed with a pair of spines. Elytra concealed beneath pronotum, or usually so, of similar structure 

 in both sexes. 



The genera of Bradyporinae may be separated as follows : 



TABLE OF GENERA OF BRADYPORIN.F. 



1 . Eyes convex, but little prominent .' 2 . 



— ■ Eyes globose, very prominent 3. 



„.,.,,.,. , ,, t 1. Genus Bradvporus, Charpentier. 



2. Ovipositor almost twice as long as the pronotum . .1 



/ 2. Genus Callimenus, Fischer von YValdheim. 



— Ovipositor scarcely longer than the pronotum . . . 3. Genus Derallimus, nov. gen. 



3. Fastigium of the vertex tubercularly compressed be- 



tween the bases of the antennas 4. Genus Deracantha. Fischer von Waldheim 



— Fastigium of the vertex not tubercularly compressed 



between the bases of the antenna! 4. 



4. Pulvilii of the tarsi rounded 5. Genus Idioderus, Lucas. 



— Pulvilii of the tarsi spinose 6. Genus Zichya, Balivar. 



I. Genus BRADYPORUS, Charpentier 



Bradyporus. Charpentier, Hoi. Ent., p. g6(i825j; Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. Vol. 2, p. 175 (1906). 

 Dinarchus. Seal, Rec. Orth., No. 2, p. 7, 24 (1874) (Type = Locusta dasypus, Illiger). 



