DESCIUPTIONS OF ORTROPTERA FROM S. W. ASIA. 
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5 
Length of body 
. . 20 mm. 
„ pronotum 
..4 
„ elytra 
. . 19, 5 
„ hind femur. . . 
..12 
Described from one male specimen, taken at Kazvin, N. W. Persia, 25, 
•, by P. A. Buxton.* 
24. Lkrina a^olopoides, sp. n. 
^ . Of the size of L. oedipodioides, Bol., but more compressed laterally. An- 
te niise very feebly flattened and scarcely dilated apically. Head in profile 
distinctly reclinate ; frontal ridge gradually, though feebly, widened towards 
clypeus, shallowly, but distinctly, impressed, with margins raised, rather 
sharp ; facial keels raised, almost straight. Fastigium of vertex distinctly 
longer than broad, pentagonal, with apex much attenuate, acute ; lateral margins 
raised, sharp, the anterior ones feebly concave ; surface very feebly sloping 
forwards, slightly concave. Temporal foveolae elongate, strongly narrowed 
anteriorly, triangular, feebly curvate, shallow, with raised margins. Eyes 
sUghtly higher than broad, less rounded anteriorly than posteriorly. Occiput 
with its surface uneven. Pronotum distinctly constricted laterally, much 
alike in its shape to that of Molopus strepens, Latr. ; disc subtectiform, feebly 
narrowed anteriorly ; median keel raised, slightly lowered behind the first trans- 
verse sulcus, interrupted by the hind sulcus, which is placed distinctly before its 
middle ; metazona with its hind angle acute ; lateral keels scarcely perceptible 
in the fore part of prozona, very obtuse in metazona ; lateral lobes higher than 
long, with their lower margins oblique in the fore part ; their fore angle obtuse, 
hind angle straight, widely rounded. Elytra with the fore ulnar vein sinuate ; 
false vein in discoidal area thick, distinctly tra,nsversely serrulate, approaching 
apically to the hind radial vein ; interulnar area more than twice as broad as 
the discoidal area, with the false vein distinct only near the base of the area, 
the rest of the latter being irregularly reticulated ; furcal branches of the ulnar 
vein, as well as the false vein in the interfurcal area and transverse venules in 
the same area, are distinctly thickened, callous. 
General coloration reddish-sandy with black and grey points and designs. 
Antennae unicolorous. Face whitish ; frontal and facial keels with black 
longitudinal spots. Pronotum with numerous blackish points. Elytra with 
three broad castaneous fasciae : sub-basal, median and pre- apical, all reaching 
the anal area, but not extending into it ; interspaces between the fasciae whitish ; 
apex hyaline ; anal area sandy. Wings feebly greenish basally, with an indefinite 
infumate preapical fascia, not reaching the inner margin. Hind femora out- 
wardly reddish-sandy in the basal half and blackish apically, with a reddish 
ring before the knee ; innerside and lower sulcus totally black, except a pale 
preapical ring ; knees blackish, except the reddish upside. Hind tibiae black, 
with apex and a narrow subbasal ring ivory white. Hind tarsi ivory white, 
with second joint brownish. Abdomen reddish with 3-6 segments black late- 
rally. 
Length of body . . . . . . . . 16, 5 mm. 
„ pronotum . . . . . . . . 4 
„ elytra . . . . . . . . 18 
„ hind femur . . . . . . . . 9, 5 
The unique specimen of this species has been taken by A. S. G. Jayakar at 
Muscat, Arabia (British Museum). It is with some hesitation that I put this 
species into the genus Lerina, Bol. which has been described from one Indian 
* Specimens of this race recorded by me (Journ., Bombay N. H. Soc., Vol. 
-xxvii, 1921, p. 804) from Mesopotamia, seem to belong to a distinct species, which 
I am unable to identify with certainty now, owing to scarcity of material. 
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