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Oviduct curved upward, more or less long. Legs stout, rather long ; four 

 anterior femora unarmed ; hind femora with a single row of three minute 

 spines; four anterior with four minute spines on each side; hind tibiae 

 more or less dilated, with four long thick spines on each side; tarsi 

 slender. 



The dilated hind tibiae are the most distinctive character of this 

 genus. 



i. Hemideina capitolina. 



Mas. Flava, punctata ; caput maximum, carinatum, jlavescente quadri- 

 strigalum, fronle nigra striata rufescente fasciata, facie Jlava, lahro 

 paipisque fulvis, his apice piceis ; antennce fuLva ; prothorax niger, 

 lateribus Jiavis ; mesothorax nigra conspersus et himaculatus ; abdo- 

 men vitla maculari et segmentorum marginibus posticis nigris ; cerci 

 fulvi ; femora biseriatim nigra strigata ; tibicB posticce rufescenles, 

 subdilatatcB, 



Male. Yellow, shining, thinly punctured. Head extremely large, 

 broader than the prothorax, reddish and very convex above, keeled and 

 with four yellowish streaks between the eyes ; front black, transversely 

 striated, with a reddish band ; face yellow ; labrum tawny. Mandibles 

 black. Palpi tawny, first and second joints short; third and fourth long, 

 of nearly equal length ; fifth longer than the fourth, subclavate, and 

 piceous at the tip. Third joint of the labial palpi clavate, piceous. Antennae 

 tawny, very much longer than the body. Prothorax black, transverse, 

 broader than the mesothorax, broader in front, irregularly bordered on each 

 side with yellow, this hue extending for a short space along the fore border 

 and along the hind border. Mesothorax with a black spot on each side and 

 with some minute black marks. Metathorax and abdominal dorsal 

 segments with a row of black spots and with black bands on the hind 

 borders, the spots successively widening to the apical segment. Apical 

 appendages and cerci tawny, the former twice the length of the latter. Legs 

 stout, rather long ; femora with a row of interrupted black streaks on each 

 side ; hind femora beneath with a few denticulations on each side and 

 towards the tip with a single row of four minute black-tipped spines; four 

 anterior tibiae with four small black-tipped spiues on each side ; hind tibiee 

 reddish, slightly dilated, with two small black-tipped spines beneath and 

 with four thick piceous spines on each side, the spines on the inner side 

 much longer than those on the outer ; tarsi reddish. Length of the body 

 18—21 lines. 



The head of this species is very large and resembles that of Anastostoma 

 in structure, and it approaches much nearer than the following species to 

 that genus. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Miss Rye. 



b. New Zealand. Presented by Capt. Stokes, 



