468 ME. W. P. KIEBY ON NEW OR RARE 



Closely allied to I. hreritarsis, Stul, but in that species the spines on the mesothorax 

 are oblique, and not parallel; the wings are shorter and the vitreous spots less numerous, 

 &c., &c. 



Bactkododema, Stal. 



Bactrododema, Stal, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Furh. xv. p. 308 (1858) ; Bihang Svensk. Akad. ii. (17) p. U 

 (1875), iii. (14) p. 12 (1878) ; Recens. Orth. iii. p. 32 (1875). 



The type of this genus is B. tiarata, Stal, from Damara-land. The British Museum 

 possesses two females from the Transvaal, which agree with Stal's description, except 

 that he does not mention the spines on the mesothorax, of which there is a large central 

 pair, and, in one specimen, a shorter pair between these and the front of the mesothorax. 

 From Ischno2)oda the genus differs in its much shorter, broader, and more lacerated 

 cephalic crests, and in the fasciculated crests which terminate several of the middle 

 segments of the abdomen, which, in Ischnopoda, have only a single small leaflet on each 

 side. 



Cyphocrania cestuans, Westwood, and Bactrododema millaris and B. Welwitscid, 

 Bolivar, may be referred provisionally to Bactrododema ; but here the cephalic crests 

 are still further reduced, almost to spines. On tlie fifth segment of the abdomen in two 

 specimens of this section before me is a terminal raised crest. 



Enetia spinosissima. 



Enetia spinosissima, Kirb. Ann. Nat. Hist. (5) viii. p. 151 (1891). 



Sab. Madagascar. 



This fine insect is evidently allied to Achriopiera fallaa;, Coq. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Erance,- 

 (4) i. p. 495, pi. 9. fig. 1, 1860) ; but can hardly be the female of that species, or even 

 congeneric. Both genera, however, belong to the Falophince rather than to the 

 Acropihyllma;, though their short spiny legs, and the long operculum of Enetia ally 

 them to the latter subfamily. 



ACROPHYLLIN^. 



Vasilissa, gen. nov. 



Male slender, winged ; female (perhaps immature) with tegmina only ; front legs 

 much longer and slenderer than the others ; first joint of their tarsi as long or longer 

 than all the rest together ; four hinder legs much shorter, of about equal length ; the 

 femora and tibiae armed with shoi't sj)ines ; the basal joint of the tarsi as long or longer 

 than the three following joints, which successively diminish in length; styles of the male 

 shorter than the last segment; of the female about two-thirds as long as the last segment, 

 slender, pointed ; operculum very long, j)ointed at the extremity. 



This genus appears to be allied to Biura, Gray. 



