The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Orthoptera. (Acridiidae) / by W.F. Kirby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    first joint of the tarsi with three pulvilli of equal length. Abdo- men varied with brown. 6 . Length 9 mm.; prouotum, 5-5 mm. ; hind femur, 5 mm. 2 . Lencfth 10 mm.; pronotum, 6-5 mm.; hind femur, 5-5 mm. Madras : Madura (Decoly). 'Types in the coUectious of Pantel and Bolivar, in Madrid. Gemxs CLADONOTUS. Cladpnotus, Saussure, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4) i, 1861, p. 478 ; Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 184, 192, 208; Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pp. 107, 112; id.. Gen. Ins., Orth. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 10, 11; Kirby, Cat. Ortli. iii, 1910, p. 9. Type, Cladonotus humhertianus, Sauss. Banr/e. The Oriental Eegion ; New Gruinea. Body moderately long and broad, set with spiniform tubercles. Face slightly oblique; antennae very slender, wider apart than the distance from them to the eyes; frontal scutellum concave, the rami subcompressed, and slightly raised, simple or dentated; vertex nearly twice as broad as the eyes, subtruncated, with a small tooth on each side. Pronotum very rugose, covering the occiput, with a high compressed dentated process on the back,, directed forwards; truncated and emarginate behind. Tegmina and wings absent. Hind femora dentated and often sublamel- lated ; hind tibiae long and slender, with numerous small spines first and third joints of hind tarsi of nearly equal length. Key to ilie Species. 1 (2) Pronotal process curved forward .. hmnhertiamis, Sauss., p. 17. 2 (1) Pronotal process straight. 3 (4) Pronotal process expanded at extremity latiramus, Hanc, p. 19. 4 (3) Pronotal process not widened at extremity turrifer, Walk., p. 18. 6. Cladonotus humbertianus, Sauss. Cliidonotus humbertianus, Saussure, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4) i, 1861, p. 478; BoUvar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 184, 192, 209; Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pp. 107,113 ; id., Geu. Ins., Orth. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 10, 16; Kirby, Cat. Orth. iii, 1910, p. 9. Dark brown or blackish, eyes very prominent, wide apart, vertex carinated above the frontal ocellus; below, diverging rami on the clypeus, just beyond which the slender antennae are inserted on each side; labrum again with one central carina. Pronotum with a lower process, dentated above, projecting oyer the vertex; behind this is a large flattened process, carving forward over the head and trifid at the extremity, with several teeth on the converging upper carinae; lateral angles projecting