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spots on the front and with a testaceous spot on each side of the face, 

 which is also testaceous. Eyes livid, elongated, not prominent. 

 Maxillary palpi piceous, puljescent, very long ; tliird, fourth, and 

 fifth joints of equal length ; fifth clavate. Antennae piceous. Pro- 

 thorax elongated ; sides rounded. Abdomen tawny on each side and 

 beneath. Cerci tawny, nearly erect. Oviduct piceous, slightly curved, 

 tawny at the base, rather longer than the abdomen. Legs testa- 

 ceous, slightly clouded with piceous ; fore tibiae with three rather 

 long spines on each side. 



Length of the body, 74 lines. 



New Zealand (Sir A. Smith) . 



Genus-HYPEROMALA. 

 Serville. 



All four wings membranous, of equal length, entirely covered by 

 a prolongation of the prothorax, which is rather longer than the 

 abdomen, and entirely covering it. 



H. sPECiosA. Thunb., Nov. Ins. Sp., V., 268, pi. 3. H. virescens : 

 Serv., Hist. Orth., 545. Boisd., Voij. "Astrolabe/' Ent., pi. 10, 



Body green or yellowish ; head and prothorax slightly rugose ; 

 prothorax conoid, more pointed in the female ; a slight transverse 

 keel in front ; each angle with a spine stronger than those on the 

 lateral keels. Wings shorter than the abdomen. Legs the same 

 colour as the body. 



Length of the male, 12 lines ; of the female, 15 lines. 



Australia (Boisduval), Ceram (British Museum). 



I do not know on whose authority this insect has been included 

 in the New Zealand fauna. 



Genus-DECTICUS. 



Serville. 



, Head large ; front convex, with a broad protuberance between the 

 antennae. Prothorax flat, narrower in front, more or less keeled on 

 each side. Palpi slender, the maxillary double the length of the 

 labial ; last joint of the maxillary much longer than the penultimate, 

 slightly swollen and truncated, as also is the last of the labial. Fore 

 wings narrow, with a stridulant organ under each ; hind wings rather 

 shorter. Abdomen thick, rather short ; sub-anal plate of the male 

 large, reaching at least to the extremity of the abdomen, one-keeled 

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