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sides of the head ; this and the thorax smooth ; pronotum with a thin 

 median black line in front and a shorter one behind ; metanotum with 

 a black median line on the anterior portion ; legs acntely keeled ; the 

 single keel of the femora variably serrated ; tibise unarmed ; antennae 

 black, the two basal joints yellow. (Westwood.) 



Male. Length of body, 2i inches ; antennae, 7 lines ; prothorax, 

 li lines ; mesothorax, 5 lines ; metathorax, 4 lines ; abdomen, 11 

 lines + 4 lines = 15 lines. 



Female. Length of body. Si inches ; antennae, 12 lines ; protliorax, 

 2 lines ; mesothorax, 8 lines ; metathorax, 7\ lines ; abdomen, 16 

 lines + 6 lines + style (anal) 2 lines = 24 lines. 



B. GERHARDii. Kaup, Pvoc. Zool. Soc, p. 577 (1866). 



Green ; head obliquely keeled between the eyes and the base of 

 tlie antennae ; vertex with two black spots ; occiput globular ; this and 

 the thorax subgranular ; meso- and metathorax armed with small 

 spines ; tibiae and tarsi with small acute foliaceous lobes near the base. 

 (Kaup.) 



Length of the body, 4 inches 2 lines ; antennae, 6 lines ; meso- 

 thorax, 7 2 lines ; metathorax, 7 lines ; abdomen (with the short anal 

 style 2i), 22 lines. 



Hab., Invercargill. 



B. GEisovii. Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1866),^;. 578. 



Green; head obliquely keeled between the eyes and the base of 

 the antennae ; vertex and occiput with ten black spines ; prothorax 

 granulated ; meso- and metathorax and abdominal segments spinose ; 

 legs spinose and foliaceous. (Kaup.) 



Male. Length of the bod}^, 18-2 lines ; antennae, 4 lines ; pro- 

 thorax, 1 line ; mesothorax, oh lines ; metathorax, 4 lines ; abdomen, 

 10 lines + 1 line =11 lines. 



B. HYSTRicuLEA. Westwood, Cat. Ortliop. Ins., p. 16, pi. 1, /. 4 

 (PachymorphaJ , (1859) . 



Female. Brown, rugose, opaque, armed with numerous spines ; 

 sides of the mesonotum ferruginous ; apical segment of the abdomen 

 yellowish ; joints of the antennae obscure ; head with two tubercles 

 between the eyes ; abdomen armed on the back with spines, the 

 fourth segment with foliose appendages at the sides ; legs spiny. 

 (Westwood.) 



Length of the body, 20 lines; antennae, 4 lines; prothorax, li 

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