728 journal, BOMBAY natural HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXTIII. 
species — L. oedipodioides, Bol. The new species itself is very striking by its 
close resemblance to Molopus strepens, Latr., by venation of elytra and by 
coloration of the same and of hind legs. 
25. Lerina buxtoni, sp. n. 
cf , Of the size and habitus of the Indian L. oedipodioides, Bol. Antennae 
slightly flattened, feebly dilated towards the apex ; last joint truncate. Front 
in profile distinctly reclinate ; face impresso-punctate ; frontal ridge subparallel, 
rather suddenly narrowed near fastigium and very feebly widening towards 
clypeus, not reaching the latter, flat, with a small impression below the ocellum, 
with lateral margins obtuse ; facial carinae obtuse, rather thick, feebly curvate. 
Vertex slightly sloping ; fastigium much longer than broad, elongato-hexagonal, 
narrowly truncate anteriorly, shghtly concave, with raised margins ; foveolae 
long and straight, strongly narrowed anteriorly, almost triangular, shallow, 
with margins not sharply delineate. Eyes almost vertical, distinctly higher 
than broad, with fore margin straight. Pronotum feebly constricted and rounded 
in prozona, which is distinctly longer than metazona ; median keel in prozona 
scarcely distinct, interrupted by two transverse sulci, in metazona sharp, though 
low ; lateral keels in the shape of small, low tubercules near the fore margin 
of prozona and very obtuse in metazona ; fore margin of the pronotal disc 
slightly prominent, with a small emargination in the middle ; hind margin 
obtusely angulate, widely rounded ; lateral lobes much higher than long, with 
lower margin oblique in its fore part, fore angle obtuse, hind angle about 90° 
rounded. Elytra extending beyond the hind knees ; interulnar field about twice 
as broad as discoidal, with an irregular false vein ; intercalate vein in discoidal 
area approaching apically to the radial vein; two furcal veins and the false vein 
in the furcal area, as well as transverse venules in the same area thick, callous. 
Venation of wings as in L. oedipodioides, Bol. Hind femora short, broad ; hind 
tibiae shorter than femora. , 
General coloration is that of sand, with numerous greyish and blackish points. 
Antennae brown with numerous pale rings. Pronotum above brick-reddish, 
with two indefinite blackish longitudinal sinuate fasciae. Elytra with three 
irregular blackish bands and scattered brownish-grey spots. Wings hyalinous, 
very feebly coerulescent basally. Fore and middle legs with several brown 
transverse fasciae. Hind femora with two irregular transverse fasciae in area 
externomedia and with three on the upper side ; inside black, except a post- 
median and a preapical pale fascia ; knees black from inside and grey outwardly. 
Hind tibiae ivory white,with base, median and preapical rings, and tips of 
spines, black. 
Length of body 
19, 5 mm. 
pronotum .., 
. . 3, 5 
„ elytra 
.. 19 
„ hind femxu- . . 
. . 9, 5 
The unique type specimen has been taken by P. A. Buxton at Amara, Meso- 
potamia, 10. viii, 18, together with a paratypic male, which agrees with the type 
in all morphological characters, but has the elytra unicolorous, without any 
trace of fasciae or spots. 
26. CEdaleus nigrofasciatxts, De Geer. — Persia; Bakhtyari Mountains, 1500- 
4500 m., J. deMorgan, 1904 (Paris Museum). 
27. .SciNTHARISTA NOTABILIS BRUNNERI, SaUSS. 
1884. Scintharista brunneri, Saussure, Prodr. Oedipod., p. 121, No. 1. 
1888. Quiroguesia brullei var. blanchardiana, Saussure, Add. ad Prodr. 
CEdipod., p. 35. 
The most careful examination of the cotypes of blanchardiana, Sauss., which 
are in British Musuem, and comparison of them with original description ot 
bninneri, Sauss., leaves no doubt in the identity of this form. It is evident, 
therefore, that the genera Scintharista, Sauss., and Quiroguesia, Bol., are identical 
