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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    instead of spines ; pronotum very uneven, wibh four oblique tubercles [on each side?]. Hind femora more slender than in S. crocodihs, and only armed with a tubercle on the outer surface ; hind tarsi extending beyond the pronotum. Length of pronotum, 19 mm.; breadth at shoulders, 3 mm.; length of bind femur, 5 mm. Cjsylon : Kaduganavva {Humbert). Type in the Greneva Museum. There is a specimen of an allied species in the British Museum from North China, labelled nodidosus in AValker's handwriting. I am not certain whether it is identical with >S'. nodulom, Stal, from Java. Genus EUGAVIALIDIUM. Euyavialidmm, Hancock, Gen. Ins., Orth. Tetrig. 3906, p. 24. Type, Eugavudidium dentiumeris, Hancock. Range. Borneo, Celebes, Philippine Is., Tenasserim. [Resembles Gavialidium and Seelimena, but has the body prolonged; face declivous; the frontal costse rather narrowly sulcate. Pronotum granulate; humeral aT.gles unarmed, lateral angles with a strong acute spine, curved forwards ; posterior process extended con- siderably beyond the apex of the posterior femora. Posterior femora moderately stout, the inferior margins dentate in typical species, unarmed in hastulatum. Hind tarsi with the first joint slightly expanded and flattened, much longer than the second and third joints taken together.] 20. Eugavialidium hastulatum, sp. nov. Black, finely and uniformly granulated throughout, without nodosities, humeral angles unarmed, lateral angles with a curved spine directed forwards, pronotal process as long as the wings, extending considerably beyond the hind femora, and pointed at the tip, reddish on the sides beyond the spines, and slightly varied with grey above towards the extremity. Tegmina oval, reddish. Pront and middle femora linear; hind femora unarmed, moderately stout; f^ '^'^ rr^'- rT'^''' fine spines above; first joint of bind tarsi slightly expanded and flattened, much longer than the second and third together. Tenasserim : Kawkaraik, Amherst District, 6. iii. 1908. I'l/^^e in the Indian Museum, Calcutta.