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There is little doubt of this specimen belonging to this rare and 

 structurally interesting ppccies, the male only of which was known 

 to the describer. The present female seems to agree in every par- 

 ticular with the original description and figure of the male except for 

 size and sexual characters. The ovipositor is curved strongly 

 upward and the dorsal margin is finely serrate in the apical half, or 

 slightly more, and for a much less distance on the lower margin; the 

 serrated portions of the margins are darker than the rest of the 

 surface. 



The measurements of this female arc as follows: Length, pronotum, 

 15 mm. ; tegmen, 74 mm. ; posterior femora, 35 mm. ; ovipositor, 13 mm. ; 

 width, pronotum posteriorly, 10 mm.; tegmen at middle, 26 mm.; 

 posterior tibia ventrally at middle of expansion, 6 mm.; ovipositor 

 at widest point, 5 mm. 



There is clearly an error in Brunners's original measurements of 

 the male, as he gives the pronotal length as but 9 mm. when it must 

 be at least 14 mm. 



Family GRYLLILAE 



Subfamily Gryllotapinae 



GRYLLOTALPA AFRICANA Beanvois 



Grylloialpa africana Beauvois, Ins. Afr. Amer., 1805, p. 229, pi. 2c, fig. 6. 



Two males, seven females, and four nymphs, all from Buitenzorg 

 in March and April, except one nymph from Tjibodas, Mount Gede, 

 at an altitude of 4,500 feet. 



This series shows no differences from specimens from Africa. The 

 smallest of the nymphs is apparently in the first stage; it has the 

 anterior tibiae with but three fingers and the posterior tibiae have a 

 preapical pale band. 



GRYLLOTALPA HIRSUTA Burmeister 



Gryllotalpa hirsuta Burmeister, Handb. Ent., vol. 2, 1838, p. 739. 



Four males, three females, and two nymphs from Buitenzorg in 

 March and April. 



All the males are brachypterous while all the females have the 

 wings caudate. The males agree with the description of hirsuta and 

 the females with that of longipennis DeHaan, now a recognized syn- 

 onym of Mrsuta. 



TRIDACTYLUS PULEX Saussure 



Tridactylus pulex Saussure, Rev. Suisse Zool., vol. 4, 1896, p. 419. 



One female, Batavia, April 1. 



This is decidedly larger than the male, measuring fully 5 mm, in 

 length. 



