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labrum whitish, black towards the lip. Eyes tawuy, nearly round. Pro- 

 iborax Gnely tiiberculate, with a very broad pieeous stripe, with two 

 impressed Iransveise lines, and with an abbreviated sli<ihtly impressed 

 longitudinal line; tore border and hind border black. Abdomen beneath 

 mostly pieeous. Oviduct very slightly curved, black above and beneath 

 except towards the base, as long as the abdomen. Legs stout; spines 

 black ; hind femora nearly twu-lliirds of the length of the fore wings. 

 Fore wings cinereous, narrow, longer by one line and a half than the hind 

 wings; veins testaceous; reticulation whitish; areolets large, regular; 

 scapular vein and externo-medial approximate to each other till near the 

 tip, where they are ramose. Hind wings cinereous; veins testaceous. 

 Length of the body 15 lines; expansion of the fore wings 40 lines. 

 a. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood. 



12. Meroncidius arenosus. 

 Acanthodis arenosa, Burm. llandb. Enl. ii. 700. 

 Bahia. 



13. Meroncidius ochraceus. 



Locusta ochracea. Stall, Saul, el Grill, pi. 13, f. .52 — Locusta reticulata? 



Fabr. Enl. Syst. ii. 40 — Locusta falconaria ? Deg. Ins. iii. pi. 39, f. 4 — 



Acanthodis ochracea, ^«r»j. liandb. Enl. ii. 701. 

 Brazil. 



Var. Fcem. Tcslaceun, suhlus flavns ; protlinrnx liniis diiabus tran.'s- 

 versis bene delerminalis sulcisque qunluor obliquis nigra marginalh, 

 margine poslho subascendenle ; pedes robusti ; alee aniicct anyusUc ; 

 alee poalicce obscure cineretp, apud coslam paU.ide cinerece, venis 

 lestaceis^ secloribus transversis fuscis. 



Female. Testaceous, yellow beneath. Head smooth, with an 

 elongaic-conical furrowed keel which is contiguous to the lanceolate 

 part of the front bftween the sockets of the antennae. Eyes brown, promi- 

 nent, nearly round. Prothdrax slightly rugulose, with two strongly 

 impressed transverse lines which are irregularly bordered with black; two 

 short oblique furrovxs on each side also bordered with black; hind border 

 somewhat elevated. Cerci setose, slightly curved. Oviduct very slightly 

 ciiived, black at the lip, as long as the abdomen. Legs stout ; spines with 

 i)lack lips; hind femora rather less than iwo-lhirds of ihe length of the fore 

 wings. Fore wings narrow, longer by four lines than the hind wings ; 

 areolets large, irregular. Hind wings dark cinereous ; longitudinal veins 

 testaceous; transverse veins brown; costal space pale cinereous, with large 

 areolets and with pale testaceous veins. Length of the body 24 lines; 

 expansion of the fore wings 79 lines. 



a. America. 



14. Meroncidius juarmokatus. 



Acanthodis marmorata, Burm. Handb. Enl. ii. 701. 



a, b. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection, 

 r, (/. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



