].2 SUPPLEMENT. 



abdomen. Hind wings pellucid, nearly twice the length of the body. 

 Length of the body 2£ lines; expansion of the fore wings 4£ lines. 

 a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Thwaites. 



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 Platydactylus fasciatus. 

 fasciatus, Scudder, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. 

 Napo or Maranon. 



Platydactylus notatipes. 



Mas. Testaceus ; caput apud marginem posticum nigricans ; prothorax 



laleribus margine postico strigisque duabus obliquis nigris ; cerci 



abdomine multo breviores ; pedes longi, nigro fasciati, tibiis posticis 



extus trispinosis inlus unispinosis ; ales anticce diaphance, fusco 



nebulosce, abdomen sat superantes. 



Male. Testaceous, shining. Head irregularly blackish along the 



hind border. Eyes brown, elongate-oval, rather prominent. Prothorax 



widening towards the fore border, black along the hind border and along 



each side and with an oblique black streak on each side of the disk. Cerci 



much shorter than the abdomen. Legs long, slender; femora and tibias 



with black bands; hind femora much longer than the abdomen ; hiud tibiae 



as long as the hind femora, with three long slender spines on the outer side 



and with one on the inner side. Wings pellucid. Fore wings partly 



clouded with brown, extending rather beyond the abdomen. Hind wings 



extending much beyond the fore wings. Length of the body 8 lines ; 



expansion of the fore wings 17 lines. 



The banded legs distinguish it from the other Asiatic and Australasian 

 species. 

 a. Ceram. From Madame Ida Pfeiflfer's collection. 



Platydactylus diveesus. 



Fuem. Ferrugineus, pubescens, subtilissime punctatus ; vagina fere 

 recta, apice nigra, abdomine longior ; cerci graciles, vagina longiores ; 

 femora postica testacea, extus fusco bivitlata ; tibice posticce spinuloses, 

 sexspinosce ; alee anticce apud costam pallidiores ; alee posticce cinerea?, 

 apice f err uginece. 



Female. Ferruginous. Head and prothorax pubescent, extremely 

 minutely punctured. Head a little narrower than the prothorax; tip of 

 the vertex short. Eyes livid, oval. Fourth joint of the maxillary palpi 

 clavate, obliquely truncated. Prothorax with two very slight transverse 

 impressed lines; fore border nearly straight; sides and middle part of hind 

 border rounded. Sheaths of the oviduct nearly straight, black at the lips, 

 rather longer than the abdomen. Cerci slender, a little shorter than the 

 sheaths of the oviduct. Hind femora testaceous, much longer than the 

 abdomen, with two brown stripes on the outer side; hind tibia? as long as 

 the hind femora, with six long spines and with many minute spines on each 

 side. Fore wings rather longer than the body, paler along the costa. 



