000 CATALOGUE OF 



slight, diveiging towards the face. Eyes transverse, not oWique, straight 

 on the fore side, rounded on the hind side. Prothorax ferruginous between 

 the blackish lines, with three slight keels, and with the usual four trans- 

 verse impressed lines; some whitish calii on each side; fore border 

 strain;!)!; sides and hind border rounded. Prosternal spine pale testaceous, 

 thick, oblique, not tapering towards the tip, which is rounded. Hind 

 femora longer than tlie abdomen ; hind tibias green, testaceous and with 

 three black bands towards the base, bright rose-colour at the tips; spines 

 while with black tips; hind tarsi bright rose-colour. Fore wings cine- 

 reous, rather shorter than the body, with many dots which are formed 

 by black veins; veins elsewhere pale testaceous. Hind wings pellucid; 

 veins white, blackish towards the tips. Length of the body 13|^ lines ; 

 expansion of the fore wings 24 lines. 



a. Cape. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



10, Hetehacris viridivitta. 



Mas. Picea, gracilis, subtus testacea ; caput et prothorax flavo bivittala, 

 laleribus lesta.cein piceo unislrigatis ; fastigimn fere rolundum ; an- 

 iennce basi albidce ; prothorax piinctaliis, tricarinalus ; prosterni 

 spina longiuscula, sat gracilis ; femora postica pallida lutea, apice 

 nigra; tibice postica pallide virides ; aim anticte pallide cinerece, 

 vilta lanceolata pallide viridi, corpore breviores. 



Male. Piceous, slender, testaceous beneath. Head and prothorax 

 with two yellow stripes which extend to the hind part of the depressed and 

 nearly round tip of the vertex ; sides testaceous, each with a short piceous 

 streak. Head smooth, pale green about the mouth; front thinly punc- 

 tured, with four strongly marked keels ; inner keels parallel ; outer keels 

 diverging very slijihtly towards the face. Eyes oval, ferruginous, black- 

 speckled. Anlennfe whitish at the base. Prothorax punctured, with a 

 slight keel, and with well-defined lateral keels ; transverse impressed 

 lines distinct ; two smooth calli on each side; fore border straight ; sides 

 and hind border rounded. Prosternal spine moderately long and slender. 

 Hind femora pale luleous, with black tips, as long as the abdomen ; hind 

 tibiae pale green, shorter than the hind femora, their spines with black 

 tips ; hind tarsi pale green. Fore wings pale cinereous, with a lanceolate 

 pale green stripe extending along the hind border from the base, somewhat 

 shorter than the body ; veins tawny. Hind wings pellucid ; veins black. 

 Length of the body 10 lines; expansion of the fore wings 17 lines. 



a. S. Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



11. Heteracris perficita. 



Foem. JFulva, gracilis ; caput et prothorax vittis duabus talis nigris flavo 

 interlinealis ; caput ferrugineo bivillatum,fastigio conico ; prothorax 

 tricarinatus, sublilissime scaber ; prosterni spina crassa, transversa ; 

 abdomen vittis duabus nigris abbreviatis ; femora postica e gutlis 

 nigris extus bivitlata, subttis ex parte riifa ; tibice posticte rufce. 



Female. Tawny, slender, yellow beneath. Head and prothorax with 

 a broad black stripe on each side ; this stripe includes a slender yellow 

 stripe near its outer border. Head elongate, smooth, conical ; vertex with 



