DERMAPTERA SALTATORIA. '29 



Female. Body stout, smooth, shining. Head short, as broad as the 

 fore border of the prothorax ; tip of the vertex flat, porrect, conical ; front 

 erect. Eyes nearly round, very prominent. Palpi moderately long. 

 Antennae slender. Prothorax flat above, widening and elongated hindward, 

 where it forms a membrane, which extends over the basal part of the 

 abdomen ; a very slight dorsal keel, and two very slight transverse impressed 

 lines, the hind one angular ; lateral keels well defined ; fore border 

 straight; sides and hind border rounded. Sheath of the oviduct deep, 

 slightly curved, as long as the body. Legs moderately stout; hind femora 

 as long as the body, with two rows of a few minute spines beneath ; hind 

 tibiae a little shorter than the hind femora, with very minute spines. 



Most nearly allied to Thyreonotus. 



1. Metholce nigeitaesis. 



Fcem. Pallide testacea, glabra; prothorax nigro bistrigatus et sex- 

 guttatus ; femora subtus fusco unistrigata ; tibia posticce supra 

 fuscai ; tarsi nigri. 



Female. Pale testaceous, very smooth and shining. Eyes tawny. 

 Prothorax with a black dot on each side of the disk, and with a lon- 

 gitudinal black streak and two black dots on each side. Sheath of the 

 oviduct with a black line above. Femora with a brown streak beneath ; 

 fore tibia? brown above at the base; hind tibia? brown above; tarsi black. 

 Length of the body 5 lines. 



a. Moreton Bay. Presented by — Gibbons, Esq. 



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Orphania denticatjda. 



a — c. Vienna. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 

 d. Hungary. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



Orphania Fieberi. 

 Fieberi, Schmidt. 



a. Camiolia. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



Oephania affinis. 

 Decticus afSnis, p. 257. 



a — c. South Hungary. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



Orphania Sancti Pauli. 

 Sancti Pauli, Brunner, MS. 

 a, b. Ephesus. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



Oephania hamata. 

 hamata, Brunner, MS. 



a, b. Rhodes. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



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