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the tegmina simulate a leaf beginning to decay, the 

 extremity and nervures being brown, the remaining 

 parts yellowish green. The wings are pale brown 

 and transparent, with transverse undulating dusky 

 streaks, each having a large ocellated spot at the ex- 

 tremity, consisting of a black ground with two white 

 crescents, the exterior edge reddish and surmounted 

 by a black streak. 



The remarkable looking insects of this genus, which 

 might at first sight be taken for Lepidoptera, 

 natives of Surinam and Guiana. 



ANOSTOSTOMA AUSTRALASIA. 

 PLATE XIV. 



THE figure referred to represents a very remarkabL 

 apterous insect of this family, from a drawing by Mr, 

 Westwood, taken from the specimen in the collectioi 

 of the Rev. F. W. Hope. It is a native of New 

 Holland, and was first described, a short time since, 

 b^ Mr. Grey, in the Magazine of Natural History. 1 

 It was brought from the interior, 300 miles up t! 

 country. It is almost entirely of a ferruginous colour, 

 the abdomen variegated with yellow ; legs brownish 

 yellow ; length, including the mandibles, two inches 

 and a half. The head is very large ; labrum promi- 

 nent and crescent- shaped; ocelli three, not placed 

 at the base of the ridge between the antennae, (as 

 described by Mr. Grey,) the anterior one being con- 

 siderably in front of it, and the posterior pair at its 



* New Series, vol. I. p. 143. 



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