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nous disk : mouth pitchy : chest with three indistinct pitchy stripes: 

 breast mostly tawny : abdomen reddisli ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments yellow : legs yellow, partly tawny ; anterior shanks red ; an- 

 terior feet pitchy : fore-wings narrow, almost spindle-shaped, thickly 

 punctured, covered with tawny down, adorned with two irregular, 

 diffused, slightly oblique pitchy bands : hind-wings slightly gray, 

 brownish at the tips and along the hind borders ; veins black, tawny 

 at the base. Length of the body 4| lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. New South Wales. From Mr. Pamplin's collection. 



b. New Holland. From Capt. Parry's collection. 



Genus 8. TSTHMIA, n. 



Caput sat angustum, co7iicum, transverse striatum^ concavum. 



Head rather narrow, concave above, conical in front, striated 

 across. 



1. ISTHMIA UN DATA. 



Ni(/ro-fusca, nitens ; scntelhim apice, pectus et abdomen ferruf/inca ; 

 pedes anteriores picei ; pedes postici fnlvi femoribus apice 

 piceis ; alee anticcs fuscce^ fasciis tribusferrugineis albo mar- 

 ginatis ornatce. 



Blackish-brown, shining: head small almost triangular, slightly 

 convex beneath : mouth lawny ; eyes prominent : tip of the scut- 

 cheon, breast and abdomen ferruginous : legs pitchy ; hind legs 

 tawny ; hind-thighs pitchy towards the tips : fore-wings brown, with 

 ihree broad undulating ferruginous bands, which are partly bor- 

 dered with white : hind-wings almost colourless ; veins tawny. 

 Length of the body 1^ line ; of the wings 4 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Sub-tribe 6. SERRIPEDES. 

 Serripedes, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 569. 



Group 1. TETTIGONIDES. 

 Tettigonides, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 569. 



