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femora with two apical spines or one, or none. Mid tibise with a pair of 

 inferior and only one superior apical spines. Fourth joint of the hind 

 tarsi shorter than the other three together. 



Group MiMNERMi (without any auditory pita on the fore tibise), 



Genus Onosandrus. 



Fastigium broad, not sulcate nor foveolate. Femora without apical 



spines. Fore and mid tibise with two pairs of apical spines. Hind tibise 



slender, armed above with two rows of small spines and a pair of large 



subapical spines in addition to the apical spurs. 



Genus Deinacrida, White. (1842.) 



Form large and robust. Head distantly punctured ; fasti- 

 gium Y-shaped, low and narrow between the antennae, broad- 

 ening and grooved above, passing gradually below into the 

 front. No ocelli. Antennse with the first joint large, sub- 

 cylindrical ; the second about half the length of the first, not 

 swollen ; the third nearly as long as the first, cylindrical, 

 thinner than the second ; the rest small. Eyes ovate. No 

 ridges between the front and the genee. Pronotum trans- 

 verse, not projecting over the occiput ; anterior and posterior 

 margins nearly straight ; the lobes short and rounded, not 

 descending much beyond those of the mesonotum ; the surface 

 roughened. 



Sternum broad ; prosternum with two sharp spines ; meso- 

 and meta-sterna bilobed. Legs stout, the hind tibise two and 

 a half to three times the length of the pronotum. Coxae of the 

 fore and hind legs as widely separated as those of the middle 

 legs ; those of the fore and middle legs spined. Fore femora 

 with a minute apical spine on the inner (anterior) side. Mid 

 and hind femora with a pair of apical spines. Fore and 

 middle femora flattened below. Hind femora not much 

 dilated, roundly angled above near the insertion ; flattened 

 below, and armed with two rows of strong spines. Fore and 

 middle tibise with two pairs of apical spines, about equal in 

 length. Hind tibite flattened above, and spined both above 

 and below. Apical spines, three pairs, the two upper of which 

 are subequal, the lower pair much smaller ; the two lower 

 pairs are articulated and movable. Second joint of the hind 

 tarsi with a single blunt spine above ; third joint nearly as 

 long as the second ; fourth joint longer than the other three 

 together. Genitalia : Subgenital plate of male transverse, the 

 posterior margin deeply concave between the insertions of the 

 styles, the lobes carrying the styles very prominent ; supra- 

 anal plate rounded, the anal valves with a short black point 

 on the outer margin of each, near the apex. Cerci short aiid 

 stout. Subgenital plate of the female triangular, short, 

 notched at the apex. Ovipositor slightly compressed at the 

 apex, depressed at the base. 



