ACRIDID^. 



571 



Male. Tawny, lalher slender. Head and prothorax with a te>,tyceous 

 stripe. Head smoolli ; fore part of the vertex hexajjonal ; a brown lanceo- 

 late streak bordered wiih ytllow on both sides proceeding from each eye to 

 the mouth; front tliinly punctured; the four keels blackish-hordered, 

 diveruinif very slightly towards the face. Eyes ferruginous, elougate- 

 eliipii'caL Prothorax scabrous, wiih four ferruginous stripes ; inner stripes 

 broad; outer stripes widening towards the hind border, bordered with 

 ytlluw ou the outer side and partly so on the inner side ; fore border slightly 

 rounded; sides straight; hind border much rounded. Prosternal spine 

 thick, oblique, slightly curved, brownish at the tip, extending a little 

 beyond the fore border of the mesosternum. Hind femora as long as the 

 hind tibice and as the abdomen; spines of the hind libiiE whitish, with 

 bUuk tips, longest on the inner side. Fore wings cinereous, a little longer 

 than the body, with many dots which are formed by blackish or browu 

 veins; veins elsewhere whitish testaceous; some of the longitudinal veins 

 bh.ckish or reddish towards the base. Hind wings pellucid; veins black, 

 pale green towards the base. Length of the body 26 lines ; expansion ot 

 the fore wings 60 lines. 



It has most affinity to C. gutiulosa,Uova which the prosternal spine 

 sufficiently distinguishes it. 



a. Australia. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Far. /!i.-Stripes of the prothorax paler, the inner pair with a short 

 black line along the outer side of each. 



b. Mort'ton Bay. Presented by — Gibbons, Esq. 



43. Ctrtacanthaceis proxima. 



Foem. Fulva ; caput et prothorax vitla lestaceaferrugineo submarginata ; 

 ■prothorax subcarinatus, vitlis duabus abbreviaiis gutiisque duabus 

 extcrinribus nujris, lateribus tesfaceis ; proslerni sptna crassa, sub- 

 arctiala, mesosternum altingens ; femora postica el abdomen ceqm- 

 longa, ilia nigro bilhieata ; alee anliae corpora vix breviores, maculis 

 plurimis fuscesccntibus ; alee postica pallidiores, mgro venosce. 



Female Tawny. Head and prothorax with a testaceous stripe wl.ich 

 is sliohllv and incompletely ferruginous-bordered. Head smooth; vertex 

 hexagonal in the fo.e part; front thinly punctured ; the two inner keels 

 parallel; the two outer diverging towards the face. Eyes ferruginous, 

 elon-ate-elliplical. Proibor.x sca])r,ius mostly testaceous on each side, 

 witlftwo short black st.iiies in the disk and with two exterior black dots; 

 fore border very slightly rounded; sides straight; hind border much 

 rounded. Prosternal spine thick, slightly curved, extending to he tore 

 border of the mesosternum. Hind femora with two black lines on the ou er 

 side, as long as the abdomen and as the hind tibiae; spines of the latter 

 with blaek tips. Fore wings cinereous, nearly as long as the body, witti 

 seveial brownish spots ; veins pale testaceous, blackish in the spots. Hina 



