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angle, parted from the second l)y very much more than twice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved, upright, forming a hardly ob- 

 tuse angle, a little longer than the first ; third nearly straight, slant- 

 ing, forming an acute angle; fourth nearly straight, forming a 

 slightly acute annle, much less slanting and a little shorter than the 

 third; fifth straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle. 

 Body grass-green : disks of the head, of the chest and of the abdo- 

 men towards the base more or less tinged with tawny : head very 

 small, much narrower than the lore-chest ; face very convex, rather 

 prominent: mouth pale tawny, reaching the middle-hips: eyes rather 

 prominent: feelers black, pale tawny at the base: fore-chest de- 

 creasing much in breadth from the hind border to the fore border ; 

 sides straight, rounded at the base of the wing ; hind-sculcheou 

 narrow above, much broader on each side : no excavation on the 

 hind border of the scutcheon of the middle-chest : abdomen obconi- 

 cal, tawny beneath, much longer than the chest; drums green, very 

 small, parted by a broad interval : legs green, tinged with tawny ; 

 feet pitchy ; claws black ; fore-thighs armed with three stout tawny 

 teeth whose tips are black: wings colourless, tinged with green at 

 the ba^e; a green stripe with a lawny tinge along two-thirds of the 

 fore border ; veins tawny ; green towards the base, black towards 

 the tips. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



rt, b. Port Natal. From M. Gueiiizius' collection. 



4. Cephaloxvs rostrata, Mas. 



Nervus Iransversus \us rectus, subobllquus, angulum vix obtiisuui 

 fingeiu, '2o quadrupld ejus lomjitudine divisus ; 2us (rectus, 

 fere rectus, angulum oblusum fingens, lo longior ; Sus fere 

 rectus, valde obliquus, angulum acutuni fingtns ; Aus rectus, 

 obliquus, angulum rectum Jingens, 3o mullb brevior. 



Second marginal areolet about five-sixths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein straight, slightly slanting, forming a hardly 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by full four times its length ; 

 second upright, nearly straight, forming an obtuse angle, longer 

 than the first; third nearly straight, very slanting, forming an acute 

 angle, joining the base of the fourth marginal areolet ; fourth straight, 

 slanting, forming a right angle, very much shorter than the third ; 

 fifth very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a right angle. 

 Body vivid grass-green, tawny beneath, partly clothed with whitish 

 shining down ; head small, narrower than the forc-ch- st ; face coni- 

 cal, remarkably prominent, forming a short horn ; mouth lawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the middle-hips: feelers tawnv: eyes "rather 



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