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anterior half of the mctazona, so that the Ijand, narrow anteriorly, expands to 

 about double breadth in the middle of the prouotuui and terminates in a point ; 

 posterior margin of the pronotum siibcrenulate, the margin embrowned. Hind 

 femora pointed with black along the carina, beneath with obscure signs of a 

 broad basal and a mucli narrower subapical fuscous fascia ; hind tibise faintly 

 obscured with fuscous apically and a little beyond the base, the spines tipped 

 with blackish fuscous. Abdominal segments more or less marked with black- 

 ish fuscous apically, and distantly punctate with brown. 



Length of body 22 mm. ; antenna; 8 mm. ; pronotum 4.5 mm. ; hind femora 

 13.5 mm. 



Wreck Bay, Chatham Island, 1 female, Dr. G. Baur. 



Subfamily (EDIPODIN^. 

 Sphingonotus fusco-irroratus, Stal. 



Plate I. Fig. 8. 



(Edipoda fiisco-irrorata Stal, Eug. TJesa, Entom., pp. 345-.346. 

 Sphinctonotns fusco-irroratus Stal, Reccns Orthopt , I Lj5. 

 Sphinqnnotus /uscu-iirorritus Sauss., Prodr. CEdip., 107, 209; Suppl , 79. 

 Trtnerotropis placldai. Brun.! (nee Stal), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII. 19.3. 



This species was originally (lescril)ed by Stal from the Galapagos (without 

 further specification) and from the island of Puna in tlie Gulf of Guayacpiil. 

 It will probably tlierefore 1)e found \\\tcm the continent, Init Saussure was un- 

 acquainted with it when he prepared his Prodromus. Stal remarks : "Specimen 

 Punense in omniI)us obscurius." The pallid tarsi in strong contrast to the 

 apically infuscated tiljia; are not specified in his description. 



Five specimens before me from Charles Island have the basal and middle 

 dark bands of the tegmina more sharply defined and less inclined to be mottled 

 than those, six in number, from Chatliam Island, and have a less number of 

 fuscous points in the apical third of the tegmina ; otherwise, I can see no 

 differences between them. A single specimen from Gardner Island is like the 

 Chatham Island specimens, which is the opposite of what would l^e looked for, 

 Ganlner Island being a mere satellite of Charles and distant from Chatham. 

 Bruner credits the two specimens he saw to James Lsland, but the labels 

 attached to them are marked Chatham Island. Tlie specimen from Gardner 

 Island and three of the Charles Island specimens are of Dr. Baur's collecting. 

 The remaindin- are from specimens collected l)y the natuialists of the "Alba- 

 tross," on different occasions in IS88 and 1891. 



