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flattened below. Total length 9, 26 mm.; pronotum, 25 mm.; posterior 

 femora, 9 mm.; anterior femora, 5 mm.; posterior tibiae, 6. 80 mm.; <j\ 20 

 mm.; pronotum, 19 mm.; posterior femora, 7 mm. 



Eight females and six males from Brunei, Island of Borneo. 

 In my collection. 



SECTION METRODOR^;. 



PLATYTETTIX gen. nov. 



Characters : Body strongly rugoso-reticulose. Head lightly 

 exserted ; vertex considerably broader than one of the eyes, 

 tridentate anteriorly, consisting of a denticle on each side, 

 and a minute denticuliform produced median carina. Eyes 

 very small, though slightly prominent ; ocelli placed between 

 the lower fourth of the eyes. Frontal costa rather widely 

 sulcate, viewed in profile roundly produced between the an- 

 tennae, abruptly sinuate above and below. Antennae inserted 

 below and before the ventro-anterior part of the eyes. Pro- 

 notum anteriorly truncate, posteriorly hastate, the apex acute ; 

 median carina of pronotum strongly cristate anteriorly before 

 the shoulders ; humeral angles obsolete ; posterior angles of 

 the lateral lobes widely laminate outwards, triangularly sub- 

 spiniform produced, obliquely truncate behind. El3 T tra and 

 wings absent. Legs strongly compresso-carinate ; anterior 

 femora strongly carinate above, below acute lobate ; middle 

 femoral carinas sinuate-lobate ; posterior femora stout, the 

 antegenicular and geuicular spines strongly triangularly pro- 

 duced ; first article of the posterior tarsi provided with sub- 

 acute pulvilli. 



Platytettix reticnlatus sp. nov. Body short and robust, viewed from 

 above the inferior margins of lateral lobes of pronotum widely dilated 

 backward and acute ; grayish-ferrugineous, lightly marked on dorsum 

 with fuscous and also the legs annulated with the same color. Vertex 

 barely more than twice the breadth of one of the eyes. Pronotum with the 

 dorsum strongly compresso elevated anteriorly before the shoulders ; 

 median carina gently arcuato-cristate forward to near the front border, 

 and backward abruptly descending between the shoulders ; surface on 

 either side of crest and lateral lobes strongly rugose-scabrous ; dorsum 

 behind the crest somewhat flattened and profoundly reticulose-scabrous, 

 presenting many little cratiform elevations ; the median carina of pro- 

 notum here very thin and indistinct ; anterior carina: behind the front 



