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joints with narrow pale rings towards the base and at least 

 four broad whitish or green belts beyond ; head and pronotum 

 sulcated on the median line; pronotum longer than broad, 

 green above and black below and on the sides, transverse 

 sulcus placed before the middle, behind it on each side is a 

 broad black dash. Mesonotum brownish green above, with a 

 median bright green line ; sides and under surface black, the 

 former with two longitudinal yellowish lines. Interalary space 

 greenish ; abdomen mahogany-brown, seventh segment 

 reddish, the last three segments varied with green and 

 brown. Abdomen brown beneath, except the operculum, 

 which is green ; cerci brown, rather short and thick ; legs 

 purplish brown, broadly belted with green. Tegmina green, 

 with the usual hump ; extremity truncated, oblique, costa 

 shorter than inner margin. Wings with the costal area o£ a 

 subhyaline rosy grey, the longitudinal nervures bright green ; 

 a purplish-brown costal stripe, narrowly bordered towards 

 the base by yellow on the extreme costal edge, traverses the 

 greater part of the wing. Membranous part of the wing- 

 brownish subhyaline, with a very strong coppery iridescence ; 

 the nervures green towards the base, and most of the trans- 

 verse nervules greenish white. 

 Jlab. Trinidad. 



Genus IGNACIA, Rehn. 

 rseudophasma, Bol. 



Ignacia appendiculata, sp. n. 



Light brown ; antennae with the two basal joints and more 

 or less of several of the succeeding oiks reddish brown, the 

 terminal half of the fourth blackish ; head twice as long as 

 broad, with a black band extending backwards from the 

 antennse, but well within the eyes, over the pro- and. meso- 

 notum ; pronotum shorter than the head, the sides and the 

 sulcations pale ; mesonotum rather longer than the head and 

 pronotum together, and with six long slender filaments rather 

 than spines on the upper surface, black, tipped Avith pale in 

 the male, and wholly pale in the female; the first pair on 

 the front margin nearly obsolete in the male, the second 

 rather further, and the third about the middle ; tegmina 

 brown, with a large, pointed, conical elevation directed 

 towards the base ; behind this the colour is yellowish ; 

 wings with the costal area light brown ; a whitish streak 

 towards the base of the costa, membranous portion greyish 

 subhyaline ; legs long and slender, all the femora clavate 

 towards the extremity, and the front femora much waved. 



