220 Transactions. — Zoology. 



of co-types presented to the Canterbury Museum by Mr. H. 

 Suter, the discoverer of the species : — 



Fastigium broad, the fovea shallow. The lateral margins 

 of the lobes of the pronotum are oblique, ascending posteriorly. 

 The fore and middle femora have no apical spines, and none 

 belovt^ ; the hind femur of the male has an apical spine, but 

 it is situated below^, not laterally. It is absent in the female. 

 Below there are, in both sexes, from two to four small spines. 

 Both fore and middle tibi£E have a pair of inferior apical 

 spines, but only one of the superior pair, which is on the inner 

 side ; below they have four spines in each row, and the middle 

 tibia has a single spine in front, beyond the middle. The hind 

 tibiae, above, have four spines in the outer and five in the 

 inner row ; below there are three spines in the outer and two 

 in the inner row. The fourth joint of the hind tarsus is 

 short, not longer than the first. Supra-anal plate obtusely 

 notched ; the subgenital plate in the male deeply concave 

 between the insertions of the styles ; in the male it is large 

 and slightly notched at the apex. The ovipositor is more 

 compressed than usual. 



Colours. — Dark ; the pronotum bordered all round, and 

 the abdominal terga bordered posteriorly, with testaceous or 

 tawny. (In alcohol.) 



Length, 25mm. ; of head, 13mm. <y , 10mm. 5 ; of pro- 

 notum, 5mm. ; of thorax, 9mm. ; of abdomen, 15mm. ; of 

 oviduct, 13mm.; of fore tibia, 7mm.; of hind tibia, 12ram. ; of 

 hind femur, 11mm. Width of head, 7mm. ; of pronotuni, 8mm. 



Localities. — Hooker Valley, South Canterbury ; Mount 

 Captain, Hanmer Plains, at about 3,000ft. above the sea. 

 (Dendy.) 



In the absence of apical spines on the femora, this species 

 differs much from all the others. 



The following are the colours of a live specimen collected 

 by Professor Dendy on Mount Captain : Head shining-black, 

 aute-clypeus white, with two brown spots. Antennae reddish- 

 brown, paler towards their tips. Legs pale reddish-brown, 

 the spots on the outer surface of the hind femora and the 

 spines on the hind tibiae black. Pronotum shining-black, 

 margined all round with dirty-white, clouded with fuscous. 

 Abdominal segments, above, shining - black anteriorly ; pos- 

 teriorly white, with dead-black spots and vermiculations. The 

 length of this specimen, which is a male, is 38mm-. 



Hemideina broughi. 

 Deinacrida broughi, BuUer, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxviii., 



p. 324 (1896). 



I have not seen this species, but it appears to be near H. 

 maori, as the four anterior femora are said to be free from 



