Insects from the Yang-tse-Kiang. 381 



Sympetrum sanguineum, Miiller. 

 Crocothemis soror, Rambur. 

 Deielia phaon, De Selys. 

 Orthetrum brunneum, Fonscolombc. 



iEschnidae. 

 Hemianax ephippigerus, Burmeister. 



Agrionidae. 

 Neurobasis chinensis } Linne. 



ORTHOPTERA. 

 Locustidse. 



Autarches miliaris, Linne". Two rather small and brightly 

 coloured specimens. 



Cyrtacanthacris succi?icta } Linne". 



Cyrtacanthacris Wingatei, sp. n. (infra). 



Trilophidia annulata, Thunberg. 



Cyrtacanthacris Wingatei, Kirby, sp. n. 



Exp. al. 82 millim. ; long. corp. 42 millim. 

 Male. — Front of head and pronotum dark red ; vertex,, 

 cheeks, lower part of the face, and sides of the thorax much 

 paler. The space between the facial carina? and the thorax 

 thickly rugose-punctate ; back of the head smooth, with two 

 rather indistinct rows of black spots running backwards from 

 between the eyes, and diverging behind. Thorax irregularly 

 mottled with black on the back and sides. Abdomen 

 shining chestnut ; interalary space paler. Legs brownish 

 testaceous, four front femora spotted with black above* 

 Hind femora with all the carinee set with small black serra- 

 tions, and with three black bands on the upper surface, the 

 third narrower than the others, and followed by three pairs of 

 black spots, the two hinder pairs more or less connected in 

 the middle. Hind tibiae red, with yellow spines tipped with 

 black. Tegmina testaceous brown, darker towards the base, 

 and mottled with black towards the base, and more sparingly 

 with brown beyond. Wings smoky hyaline, darker towards 

 the tips, yellowish brown along the costa nearly to the ex- 

 tremity, and broadly suffused with rosy at the base. 



Allied to C. succincta, Linne. 



One specimen. 



