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c 2 . Pronotum less ampliated laterally in the anterior part ; body 

 entirely green ; pronotum plainly sinuate laterally behind, 

 sub-truncate at apex ( $ ) . . . . peringueyi. 



c 1 . Sides of pronotum conspicuously granose. 



Apical part of pronotum acute ..... granulithorax. 



Apical part of pronotum arcuately eniarginate . . excisa. 



A 1 . Hind femora with one row of spines underneath. 

 c 3 . Five spines on the underside of the femur. 



Pronotum without aeneous lateral band, bluntly attenuate at 



apex, sides smooth ...... modesta. 



Pronotum and body entirely bronze, the former more acumi- 

 nate at apex, sides plicate ..... intricata. 



c 1 . One spine on the underside of the femur. 



Pronotum with an aeneous lateral band . . . plebeia. 



c 2 . Four spines on the underside of the femur. 



Pronotum faintly aeneous laterally and narrower and longer 

 in $ than in the other species ; hind femora partly green, 

 hind tibiae roseate ...... pulchripes. 



ARYTROPTERIS IRRORATA, n. sp. 



9 . Flavous, with three longitudinal fusco-aeneous bands on the 

 vertex, and a short one behind each eye, frontal part concolorous ; 

 prouotum variegated with fusco-aeueous, the sides are smooth, plicated 

 slightly in the anterior depression and with two or three rugae there, 

 and the lower margin is somewhat rugosely tuberculate ; the dorsal 

 part of the abdominal segments is covered with closely set minute 

 bronzy spots on white background, but the posterior part has a band 

 of the same colour decreasing in width from the basal to the ultimate 

 segment ; abdomen and legs flavescent ; the hind femora have an 

 uninterrupted elongate fuscous outer patch along the upper side, and 

 the knees and the ovipositor are fuscous ; the spines of the two rows 

 7-6 are not very developed. 



Length of body 28 mm. ; of prouotum 16 mm. ; of hind femur 22 

 mm. ; of hind tibia 21 mm. ; of ovipositor 18 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Clauwilliam), L. Peringuey. 



Easily distinguished by the livery. 



ARYTROPTERIS GRANULITHORAX, u. sp. 



$ ? . Light bronze sprinkled all over, but especially on the upper 

 surface, with minute darker bronze spots ; anterior depression and 

 posterior part of the declivous side of the pronotum, and also sides of 

 the first and second abdominal segments fuscous bronze, two transverse, 

 interrupted bauds of the same colour in upper outer part of each hind 



