214 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Length, 51mm. ^ , 58mm. ? ; of pronotmia, 12mm. ; of 

 thorax, 23mm.; of abdomen, 29mm. <?, 35mm.? ; of ovi- 

 positor, 25mm. ; of fore tibia, 15mm. ; of hind tibia, 30mm. ; 

 of hind femur, 29mm. Width of head, 12mm. ; of pronotum, 

 17mm. 



Localities. — The type came from Wanganui, and was 

 found underground. The foregoing description is taken from 

 a pair from among stones on the beach at Stephens Island, 

 in Cook Strait, presented to the Canterbury Museum by 

 W. T. L. Travers, Esq. 



Deinacrida parva. 



Deinacricla parva, Buller, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxvii., p. 147 



(1895). 



I have not seen this species. It is said to be near 

 D. rugosa, but the mid femora have no spines below, and 

 the abdominal terga are deeply emarginate. Ochre-yellow, 

 the pronotum dull reddish-brown. Length, 28mm. ; of hind 

 tibia, 20mm. 



It comes from the Nelson Provincial District. 



Genus Hemideina, Walker. (1869.) 

 Form large and robust, not less than an inch in length. 

 Head smooth, often very large in the male. Fastigium rounded 

 between the antennae, flattened and foveate in the region of 

 the ocellus, which is obsolete. Antennae short, separated at 

 their bases ; first joint long and thick ; the second shorter, 

 cylindrical ; the third longer than the second but shorter than 

 the first; the rest small. Eyes pyriform. Usually a ridge 

 (frontal ridge) between the front and the gena, running from 

 the eye to the base of the mandible (not well marked in the 

 female). Pronotum smooth, otherwise as in Deinacrida. 

 Pro-sternum unarmed ; lobes of the meso- and meta-sterna 

 short and rounded. Legs stout, the hind tibiae two or three 

 times as long as the pronotum. Coxte widely separated from 

 each other, those of the first pair spined. Femora of fore legs 

 without any apical spines, those of the middle legs with one, 

 and those of the hind legs with two small apical spines, or 

 with none. Fore and mid femora convex below, hind femora 

 only slightly dilated, angled above near the insertion. Fore 

 tibiae usually with two pairs of apical spines. Mid tibiae with 

 an inferior pair and a single superior apical spine. Hind tibiae 

 flattened above, and with a few spines on each side, as well as 

 some below ; the apical spurs are three pairs, all of which are 

 fixed ; the superior pair is much longer than the others. 

 Second joint of the hind tarsi with a single blunt spine above ; 

 the fourth joint shorter than the other three together. Geni- 

 talia : Subgenital plate of male nearly square, the posterior 



