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The broadly truncate subgenital plate has the distal margin 

 showing very weak obtuse-angulate production, the lateral portions 

 of this margin being faintly concave. 



Length of body 17 (distended), length of pronotum 3.8, greatest 

 width of pronotum 2.7, length of pronotal lateral lobe 3.7, depth 

 of pronotal lateral lobe 1.9, length of tegmen 18, greatest width of 

 tegmen 2.1, length of longest cephalic tibial spine 2.3, length of 

 cephalic femur 8.2, length of caudal femur 14.5, length of ovipositor 

 10 mm. 



Phisis pectinata (Guerin) 



1830. Lislroscelis pectinata Guerin, Voyage de La Coquille, Zool., II, part 

 II, p. 153; Atlas, pi. Ins. X, figs. 1 and la to lc. [[<?]; Island of Bourou, 

 Moluccas.] 



Obi Island, Moluccas, 1 9 . 



Though this genotype has been excellently figured by Guerin 

 and subsequently diagnosed by Serville, Redtenbacher has confused 

 under this name probably a number of species and has given char- 

 acters in his description which are not correct for pectinata. 



The following features are noteworthy in the specimen before us. 

 Ovipositor as described here for P. obiensis, but proportionately 

 broader. Subgenital plate narrow, flattened ventrad, the lateral 

 margins gradually converging to the truncate apex, which shows 

 a weak concavity. Cephalic coxae with a short spine. Cephalic 

 femora armed ventrad with four internal and five external, elongate, 

 slender spines. Median femora armed ventrad with three shorter 

 external spines and the internal margin with two minute proximal 

 spines and a series of microscopic serrulations (this margin figured 

 as unarmed by Guerin and so described by Serville). 95 Caudal 

 femora armed ventrad with twelve external and two internal, 

 minute spines. Cephalic tibiae armed ventrad with seven pairs of 

 long, slender, curved spines and a pair of minute distal spines. 

 Median tibiae armed ventrad with the same number of shorter 

 spines and with a meso-dorsal spine. 



Length of body 16.7, length of pronotum 4.5, greatest width of 

 pronotum 3, length of pronotal lateral lobe 3.7, depth of pronotal 

 lateral lobe 2, length of tegmen 30.2, width of tegmen 3.8, length 

 of longest cephalic tibial spine 2.7, length of cephalic femur 8, 

 length of caudal femur 14.8, length of ovipositor 11.9 mm. 



Phisis acutipennis Carl. Plate XXI, figure 5. 



1908. Phisis acutipennis Carl, Rev. Suisse de Zool., XVI, p. 144, pi. 4, 

 figs. 22 and 23. [ 9 , Java.] 



96 This may be due to the fact that the spines and serrulations of this margin 

 are so small that they could easily have been overlooked without high mag- 

 nification. Redtenbacher 's description of this margin as bearing five spines is 

 certainly referable to a distinct species. 



