a, valde deplamda, nigra t omnino dense pube 

 Capite posticc fere Isevi anlrorsum rugqso-punctato . Tlwrace lalo, sericeo 

 ubique dense gramdalo. Elytris subquadratis , costis quatuor integris 

 atrictto-dcnti wtlntis, pr-omincntibus. &quot;&quot;Prima dorsad ante lubercidaia , 

 Sccitnda posticc hbbrcvicct rt , laieralis prominent ibr marginali rcirorsum 

 fantlculata. Intei valtd scricea riitjris granulata. Tibiis antcrioribii$&quot; y 

 txterna cittitc pr&tffncjala dt*htc terminates. Tarsis quatuor postremis valctr 

 tompressis; tongc mgro-ciUatis, l*itis supra recumbent ibus infra penicii* 



Patria : Gafsa (Tunisia). A dominc&quot; Doumel Adanson lecla. Unum lan- 

 lum exemplar, in museo Valery Mayet. Prope l\ papulenlanc Reiche dis- 

 poiienda. ...... . -. \ 



3 PIM. INEXPECTAT^, nov. sp. I^ong. 15. mill.; larg. 91/2 mill. -* 

 Gonwxa, crassa, suborbicularis, submiita, fere ubiquc pilis flavis, aitrfllis 

 vcstiia. Gapile sublssvi, ante, ct ad later a sparsim punctato. Tlwrace laid, 

 angidis anticis valdc prominmtibus, ad latcra granufaio t disco fere l&vi. 

 JElylra subhtftnispherica granules nigro-setosis tecla ; costis ante tuber cu- 

 latis, relrorswn crenntis, elevatis. Sutura leviler prominula, postice cre- 

 tiata, Costa dorsali pritna, ante remote granulato^ subobliterala } secwula 

 retrorsum abbreviata. Epipleures sparsim granulatis. Abdomine minule 

 granulato, punctato, subrugoso , minutissime fulvo-piloso. Prostermwi 

 postice rostratum. Pedes rufesccntes , pubescentcs ; tibiis anticis dente 

 yalida extw terminate, poslicis late dor&o planalis, intermcdiis profui\de 

 tianaltculatis. Tarsis . posteriory quatuor compressi via; dilat.ali, supra 

 longis rccumbentibusquc, infra regidis brevisque pilis ciliati. . .. 



Pairia : Ind. or.; ex W. Satan ders ; in musaeo Javet (oliniji niiiic-meo, 

 lihicura exemplar. 



M. L. von -Heyden eVrit qne la Scrtca luteipes Faii m. (Ann. Scfc. cnt. 

 &quot;Fi 1 ., 1881, Xxvl) = la Triodonta aim Bfanck. 



M. H. Lucas communique fa note suivanle sur un Ortlioptere dela 

 famille des Phasniides : 



Un Orthoplere coureur du genre Heleroptcryj; de Gray, plus grand que 



r/i. Qrayi Weslw. (Gat, ofOrlh. Ins. in the Collect, of the Brith. Mus., 



p. 82, pi. 30, fig. 3, $, 1859), provenanl de Malacca, a ^le envoye der- 



nierement au Museum. Get Orthoplere. vient se ranger dans le voisiriage 



, del //. Gray*, avec lequel il ne pourra etre..confondu a cause de.sa taille 



