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rounded; liind-border straight. Abdomen with the hind angles of 

 the sixth and seventh abdominal segments elongated and acute ; supra- 

 anal lamina truncated. Cerci long, lanceolate. Legs robvist, reddish- 

 black ; femora with stout spines ; tarsi red towards the tips ; arolia 

 large. Wings none. Length of the body, 11—13 lines. (Walker.) 



Var. 13. A piceous tinge along the sides of the thorax. 



Var. y. Femora and tibise red. 



^''ar. S. Tibife bright-red, black at the base and at the tips. 



Var. e. Antennse and legs Avholly black. 



P. UNDULiviTTA. JVcilkev, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus., p. 1 14. (1868) . 



Male and Female. Testaceous, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head 

 not extending beyond the prothorax ; two black stripes, which are 

 dilated towards the vertex. Eyes black, wide apart. Antennae 

 piceous, slender, testaceous at the base, a little longer than the 

 body. Prothorax somewhat conical ; two undulating black stripes, 

 which do not extend to the fore-border, the latter hardly truncated ; 

 sides slightly rounded ; hind-border straight. Abdomen with two 

 stripes and the apical part black, or almost wholly black ; supra-anal 

 lamina bilobed, notched at the tip ; sides deflexed ; styles of the male 

 distinct. Cerci tawny, fiat, long, lanceolate. Legs short, thick; 

 femora with slender spines ; arolia moderately large. Length of the 

 body, 7k lines. (Walker.) 



P. ORiENTALis. Limiceus. Serville, Orthopteres, jj. 72. 



Body reddish-brown ; labrum yellow, a spot of the same colour 

 near the base of each antenna. Prothorax almost orbicular, smooth, 

 shining, with a broad and oblique impression on each side. Fore 

 wings sensibly shorter than the abdomen, of a clearer tint than the 

 rest of the hodj. Hind wings rather shorter than the fore wings, 

 dirty yellow. iVntennse much longer than the body, rather pubescent, 

 reddish-brown. In the female the hind wings are absent, and the 

 fore wings are rudimentary. Length, 10 lines. 



Introduced into New Zealand. 



P. TRUNCATA. fVatt, Blatt., p. 217 (1865). 



Female. Testaceo-castaneous. Pronotum oblong, rufo-castaneous, 

 margined with testaceous. Elytra horny, subquadrate, sutural margin 

 close; anal vein impressed. Wings none. Legs testaceous. Abdo- 

 men brown washed with testaceous. 



Length, 17 mm. 



New Zealand and New South Wales (Wattenwyl) . 

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