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Organs of flight fully developed; tegmina surpassing the abdomen 

 but falling somewhat short of the tip of the posterior femora, yellow- 

 ish brown in general color, dorsally marked by a couple of triangular 

 blackish spots and some short transverse bars of the same color and 

 with the costal area suffused with fuscous; wings caudate, colored 

 about as the tegmina, the folded prolongations showing dark spots, 

 the costal area dark. 



Measurements. — Length, body to end of tegmina, 9 mm; pronotum, 



1 mm.; tegmen, 7 mm.; wings, beyond the tegmina, 4 mm.; anterior 

 femora, 1.75 mm.; posterior femora, 5 mm.; cercus, 3.75 mm.; width, 

 pronotum, 1.75 mm.; posterior femora at widest point, 1.5 mm. 



Type, female, Mount Salak, Java, May 15 (3,000 feet altitude); 

 paratype same locality and date but without altitude label. 



Type in National Museum; paratype returned to Doctor Bryant. 

 Tijpe.— Cat. No. 29141, U.S.N.M. 



XABEA DECORA Walker 



Xabea decora Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mm., vol. 1, 1869, p. 109. 



One very small nymph from Mount Salak. 



The unarmed posterior tibiae and the shape of the pronotum of 

 this remarkable cricket are seemingly as apparent in the nymph as 

 in the adult. The extremely long and slender posterior metatarsus, 

 being about three times as long as the combined length of the other 

 two tarsal segments, is a noticeable feature of this small nymph. 



Subfamily Trigonidiinab 



PARATRIGONIDIUM JAVANICUS, new species 



Description, female (male unlinoivn). — Antennae yellowish, basally 

 darker, the second segment black; front of head fuscous, the eyes 

 lig-hter and the occiput and rest of the head yellow. Pronotum yel- 

 low with the anterior margin narrowly bordered with black. Teg- 

 mina unicolorously black. Legs uniformly yellow. Abdomen black 

 except the cerci, the subgenital plate and part of the preceding ven- 

 tral segment, which are yellow; ovipositor rather slender, curved 

 strongly upward and yellowish basally, somewhat darker apically. 



Measurements. — Length, body exclusive of ovipositor, 5 mm.; pro- 

 notum, 9 mm.; tegmina, 3 mm.; posterior femora, 5 mm.; ovipositor, 



2 mm. 



Type, female, Pelaboean Ratoe, Java, without date. 

 Type in National Museum. 

 Type.— Cat. No. 27331, U.S.N.M. 



PARATRIGONIDIUM COLORATUM, new species 



Description, female {male unTcnown). — Antennae blackish with the 

 first two segments yellowish, the apical portion broken off. Head, 

 legs and abdomen colored as described under the above species; the 



