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SPOLIA ZEYLANTCA. 
Locality, Maskeliya, Ceylon. 
One female taken “from stem of tree in thick jungle, March. 1 ’ 
E. Ernest Green. 
Gen. Griotettix , Bolivar. 
Plate III., figs. 15-15&. 
Body granulate, elongate. Vertex viewed from in front rarely 
lower than the eyes, above horizontal or towards the front ele¬ 
vated. Frontal costa just behind the antennae not sinuate ; palpi 
subcylindrical, same colour. Antennae inserted barely in front of 
the eyes. Pronotum truncate in front, posteriorly long subulate, 
very rarely abbreviated ; dorsum depressed,humeral angles obtuse; 
posterior angles of lateral lobes outwardly laminate acute rather 
long spinose. Elytra oblong ; wings perfectly explicate. Pro¬ 
sternum reflexed, anteriorly widely sinuate. Anterior femora 
narrow, carinae entire ; femoral teeth and knee of posterior femora 
small ; posterior tibiae towards the apex moderately ampliate, 
canthus compressed, spinose ; first articles of posterior tarsi above 
flattened distinctly longer yet narrower than the third, linear.* 
Griotettix , Bolivar (1887, p. 222). 
Key to Species of Criotettix. 
Vertex strongly narrower than eye ; pronotum granulate ; face 
strongly retreating ; spine of lateral lobe usually directed sub- 
obliquely backward. Plate III., figs. 15-155, tricarinatus , Bol. 
Vertex subequal in width to eye ; pronotum subrugose granu¬ 
late ; frontal costa protuberant between the antennae ; spine of 
lateral lobe usually directed transversely or little bent subobli- 
quely forward. Plate III., figs. 12-125, spinilobus , sp. nov. 
9.— Griotettix tricarinatus , Bolivar. 
Plate III., figs. 15-15&. 
Pale gray, fusco-variegated. Vertex strongly narrower than eye, 
middle carinate, either side in front with elevated curved carinula. 
Pronotum. with dorsum obtuse tectiform, median carina per- 
current, elevated; between the shoulders with two parallel 
supernumerary carinulae, abbreviated forward and backward ; 
posterior process long subulate ; lateral lobes provided with a 
rather long acute spine. Elytra short ovate, apex rounded. 
Femoral carinae granulate not at all lobate ; posterior femora 
externally longitudinally striped with fuscous; tibiae fusco- 
annulate ; first article of posterior tarsi with the apices of the 
two basal pulvilli acute spinose. 
Length of body ?, 7-8*5 mm.; pronot. 10*5-12*5 mm.; post, 
fern. 5-6 mm. (Bolivar.) 
* To this genus belong such species as C. exsertus, Bol., C. tricarinatus. Bol.. 
C. indicus , Bol., and C. oculatus , Bolivar, &c. 
