long and slender, pale yellowish, slightly dusky toward the tip; tcg- 

 mina longer than the abdomen, when at rest ahuost reaching the 

 middle of the hind tibiae; wings overreaching the tegmina and ex- 

 tending to the apical fourth of the hind tibiae. Length of body .44 

 in.; of tegmina .48 in.; of hind tibia? .26 in. ; ef anal cerci .16 in.; of 

 ovipositor .14 in. One ? from Manila. 



6. Eneoptera obscura. Head dark brown; prothorax black, 

 varied, especially posteriorly, with dark brown; anterior legs fuscous; 

 tegmina blackish, varied with obscure fuscous; ovipositor mahogany 

 color, with a central, longitudinal, black line; the tegmina are broad, 

 and extend beyond the body in the dried specimen ; perhaps they 

 do not surpass it when Tiving; the wings, at rest, reach just 

 beyond the tegmina; the ovij^ositor is scarcely shorter than the 

 body, straight for twice or thrice its length, and then curved slightly 

 downward; it is slightly enlarged and obliquely docked above 

 at the tip; the form of the ovipositor, the shape of the fore femora, 

 which are strongly incrassated at base,' and the presence of a conspic- 

 uous but narrow prominence on the front of the head between the 

 eyes, ought properly to separate this species from the genus in which 

 I place it. Length of body .33 in.; of tegmina .31 in.; of ovipositor 

 .28 in. Old Calabar, Mr. Andrew Murray. . 



7. Platydactylus bieolor. Whole upper surface, including 

 up{)er third of eyes, upper portion of frontal prominence, tegmina 

 and exposed portion of folded wings, very pale yellowish-brown; all 

 other parts of the body, including all the appendages except the 

 antenna?, dark brown ; the latter are luteous near the base and dark 

 brown toward the tip; summit of head flecked v.'ith blackish dots; 

 dorsum of pronotum furnished with fewer blackish dots; some larger 

 ones are found along an indented line. parallel and contiguous to the 

 hind border; a semicircular dusky spot is situated upon the hind 

 border; a few minute black dots are scattered about upon the teg- 

 mina; lateral field of the tegmina with oblique blackish veins, the 

 cross-veins pale; tegmina surpassing a little the tip of the abdomen; 

 wings straight, extending far beyond the tip of the tegmina; legs 

 throughout flecked with inconspicuous pale dots; terminal tarsal joint 

 of each of the legs furnished with a broad central annulation of yel- 

 lowish-brown; terminal hind tarsal joint guarded at base by two 

 spines, the inner three or four times longer than the outer. Length 

 of body, .8 in.; of tegmina, .7 in.; of wings beyond tegmina, .5 in.; 

 of hind tibiae, .66 in.; anal cerci broken. One i from Bogota, P. 

 K. Uliler. 



