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15. Xiphidium strictum. Sides of head and body, 

 together Avith all the femora and tibiae, green. Summit of the head 

 with a rather broad reddisli-brown longitudinal band, extending from 

 the front extremity of the fastigium to the back of the head, edged 

 narrowly with white, distinctly on the fastigium, indistinctly behind 

 it, and traversed by a faint pale mediodorsal line. Pronotum with a 

 narrow lateral stripe of reddish-brown on either side, bordered exte- 

 riorly and to a slight extent interiorly with whitish, the two stripes 

 parallel, separated from each other by a sufficient space to include 

 the cephalic stripe between them, united by a slender cross line of 

 reddish-brown next the front edge; tegmina exceedingly short, 

 padlike, greenish next the hind edge, the rest striped longitudinally 

 in brown and sordid white; wings reaching when at rest the tip of 

 the tegmina ; tarsi more or less infuscated, spines of tibife blackish. 

 Abdomen dull reddish-brown above with a pale lateral stripe edged 

 beneath more or less distinctly with dark reddish-brown or blackish ; 

 ovipositor excessively long, being longer than the whole body, pale 

 testaceous, tinged near the base with green. 



J^ength of body, 18 mm.; of tegmina, 4.5 mm.; of hind femora, 

 16.5 mm.; of ovipositor, 25 mm. 2 ?, taken July 18, and October 5, 

 by J. Boll in Dallas, Texas. 



16. Xiphidium antipodum. Green, with a broad medio- 

 dorsal very dark reddish-brown stripe on the head and pronotum, 

 sometimes intense only at its outer borders and generally indicated 

 on the abdomen by a lateral blackish stripe. Tegniina testaceous; 

 hind femora tipped at the extreme apex with fuscous, all the tibiEe 

 tinged with testaceous, the tarsi dusky. Vertex moderately broad, 

 much constricted at the front edge of the eyes, greatly narrowing on 

 the face to meet the slender frontal costa. Pronotum with a faint 

 mediodorsal impressed line ; tegmina more (cf) or less (?) than 

 half as long as the abdomen, broadly rounded at the tip, the veins 

 rather prominent, the tympanum of the male unusually large and 

 coarse ; legs rather long. Ovipositor rather slender, fully as long as 

 the abdomen, scarcely upcurved on the tapering apical fourth, deli- 

 cately pointed. 



Length of body, d, 17.5 mm.; ?, 16 mm.; of tegmina, d", 8 mm.; 

 ?, 5 mm.; of hind femora o', 14 mm.; of ovipositor ?, 12 mm.; 1 d, 

 1 9, and several immature. N. Zealand, H. Edwards. 



17. Xiphidium meridionale. Green, with the whole 



