412 Dr. J. L. Hancock's Farther Studies of 



Gontis Tetrix, Lat. 



1. 'T. rontradm (Bol.) Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, p. 281, 



1887. 

 = Paratettix contractus, Eol. 



One male and one female, examples from Singapore 

 collected by Wallace ; W. W. Saunders' collection, pre- 

 sented by Mrs. F. W. Hope to the University Museum. 



This species also inhabits the Philippines and Borneo. 



2. T. longipennis, sp. nov. 



A typical Tetrix having lon<^ wings and subulate pronotal process. 

 Stature small, body somewhat scabrous-tuberculate in the female, 

 smoother granulate in the male ; colour variable, more often fuscous, 

 sometimes greyish or testaceous or dark covered witli light granuha- 

 tions, disc not maculate, variably marked behind, hind tibi<e 

 infuscated more often lighter behind the knees and distal third part. 

 Vertex wider tlian one of the rather small eyes, somewliat flattened, 

 front margin barely advanced beyond the eyes, rounded or convex, 

 median carina little produced anteriorly ; frontal costa slightly 

 sinuate opposite the eyes, lightly convex between the antennae ; in 

 profile the vertex and facial costa distinctly advanced beyond the 

 eyes. Pronotum often scabrous, anteriorly truncate, posteriorly 

 subulate, extended beyond the femoral apices ; dorsum transversely 

 tectiforra, subfossulate at base of process ; median carina compressed 

 subarcuate anteriorly often undulate in the female, nearly entire in 

 the male ; humeral angles carinate ; prozonal carina; parallel, 

 slightly exi>ressed ; lateral lobes posteriorly bisinuate, the posterior 

 angles rounded or hebetate. P^lytra oval, rather large, apices some- 

 what widely rounded ; wings fully explicate extended beyond the 

 apex of pronotal process. First articles of posterior tarsi twice the 

 length of the third, the pulvilli unequal, the third equal in length to 

 the first and second combined, straight below, the first pulvilli small, 

 acute ; anterior femora elongate margins entire ; middle femora com- 

 pressed, in the female the margins undulate, in the male the femora 

 ampliiite, margins entire ; posterior femora elongate. 



Entire length of body, male and female, 9'5-ll mm. ; pronotum 

 8-5-9"5 mm.; posterior femora 4"5-5 mm. 



Five examples from Adelaide, S. Australia, in the 

 University Museum, Oxford. 



Two examples from Mt. Wellington, Tasmania, collected 



