9% ORTHOPTERA 



conical. Eyes oval, slightly prominent. Maxillary palpi cylindrical. 

 Hind femora short and thick. 



C. MARGiNALis. Walker, Cat. Dermap. Salt., Pt. IV., ;?. 710 (1870). 



Male. Tawny, stout. Head and prothorax with two irregular 

 black stripes, which arc concisely bordered with white on the inner 

 side, and are diffuse on the outer side. Head short, smooth; vertex 

 convex ; tip flat, pentagonal ; front thinly punctured, with four well- 

 defined keels which diverge towards the face. Eyes testaceous, sub- 

 elliptical, much rounded on the hind side. Antennae piceous towards 

 the tips. Prothorax very finely scabrous, widening hindward ; disc 

 nearly flat, with a very slight middle keel, and with hardly distinguish- 

 able lateral keels ; a longitudinal black streak on each side, and some 

 blackish dots along the fore border and along the hind border ; trans- 

 verse impressed lines slight ; fore border straight ; sides slightly 

 rounded ; hind border slightly elongated, much rounded. Prosternal 

 spine long, conical, slightly broader than thick. Abdomen with a 

 broad black stripe on each side. Hind femora longer than the abdo- 

 men ; hind tibise pale greenish-yellow, rather shorter than the hind 

 femora, their spines with black tips. Wings rudimentary. 



Length of the body, 7\ lines. 



Var. /3. Male. Ferruginous, tawny beneath. Head and pro- 

 thorax with two less determinate stripes. Hind femora with some 

 black marks on the outer side; hind tibiae testaceous. Fore wings 

 with several black dots. 



New Zealand (Colonel Bolton). 



Genus-CEDIPODA. 



Latreille. 



Head not prominent, nearly vertical ; the anterior face Avith four 

 longitudinal keels ; eyes not prominent ; antennse moderately long 

 but not very slender, not dilated at the tip. Prothorax keeled, the 

 anterior part with some transverse striae, the hind border not trun- 

 cated. Prosternum smooth, without any transverse ridge. Body 

 slightly compressed ; the abdominal appendages short and setaceous. 

 Wings generally longer than the abdomen; the costa of the fore 

 wings not dilated. The four anterior tibiae more or less spinous 

 below, the posterior with two rows of spines ; first joint of the tarsi 

 elongated, the last furnished with a very small pulviUus between the 

 claws. 



