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border, the margin itself being narrowly white to a little beyond the 

 end of the humeral ridge ; the tegmina reach the fore border of the fifth 

 abdominal segment, the wings being much shorter, and fall quite 

 vertically, the venae radiales forming a kind of ridge along which are 

 situated two triangular, medium-sized, white patches, the first above 

 the nervure, the other below, but both abutting on it. On the 



FIG. 2. Shortridgea miranda. $ . 



abdomen are faint traces of two or three rows of silvery patches 

 almost obliterated in my only example. Femora not distinctly 

 tuberculate. 



Length of body 89 mm., of pvouotuin 44 mm. ; greatest width of 

 prouotum 29 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. Johns). <J and ? . Gr. A. Shortridge. 

 Zululand (Eshome) $ . A. J. T. Janse. 



One wonders at this magnificent insect having escaped the attention 

 of collectors. 



