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Geniis-SCLEROPTERUS. 

 Hay. 

 Fore legs not fossorial. Head prominent. Hind tibiae with 

 slender wide-apart spnrs. Fore wings complete^ coriaceous, not 

 reticulated. 



S. MAORicus. Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., p. 74- (1869). 



Female. Black, sliiniiig. Eyes piceous, A^ery prominent. Third 

 joint of the palpi clavate, truncated. Antennse extremely slender, 

 more than twice the length of the body. Prothorax with cinereous 

 down. Cerci and oviduct a little shorter than the abdomen. Cerci 

 very slender. Oviduct curved upwards. Legs tawny ; hind legs long, 

 their tibiae with three slender spines alternately on each side. Fore 

 wings convex, extending to the tip of the abdomen, with no lateral 

 keels. Hind wings not apparent. 



Length of the body, 2 lines. 



New Zealand (Colenso and Bolton). 



Family — LocirsxTDJE. 

 Body long, laterally compressed ; antennae setaceous ; Avings imbri- 

 cated ; males with a sound apparatus in the right elytron ; tarsi four- 

 jointed; claws Avithout a distinct pulvillus. Oviduct more or less 

 salient.^ 



Geniis-DEINACEIDA. 



TFhite. 



Body long, rather compressed, rounded above, wingless ; head 

 large ; antennae long and slender ; palpi long, slender, clubbed at the 

 end ; mandibles rather short ; fore tibiae without a spine in the middle 

 in front. 



D. HETERACANTHA. White. Groifs Zoological Mi.sc., 1842, j^. 78. 



Diejfenbach^s New Zealand, II., p. 280. Zool. " Ereb:' aniL 



" Terror," Ins., p. 24, pi. 5, /. 1 . Bvller, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 



1^70, p. 35. 



Ochre-yellow ; the end of the ovipositor, and tlic tips of the spines 



on the legs, brown ; the margins of the abdominal segments lighter, 



the transversely-ridged and rough-surfaced femora Avitli many liglit- 



coloTired streaks ; the greater portion of the dorsal surface of the 



* Tlie locality iu tl)e British Museum Catalogue of Jgrrecia solida, Sundaw Island, 

 New Zealand, presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq., must be an error, as there is no such place, 

 and Mr. Jukes never visited New Zealand. Sunday Island, Australia, is no doubt the 

 correct locnlitv. 



