LOCUSTID.E. 15U 



hind tibiie wholly black ; tarsi piceous. Fore wings ferruginous, paler 

 towards the base ; veins tawny. Hind wings cinereous ; veins blackish. 

 Length of the body 16 lines; of the fore wings 51 lines. 



a. Pernainbuco. Presented by — Spooner, Esq. 



Genus 3. DEINACRIDA. 



Anostotoma (Deinacrida) White, Grays Zool. Misc. Pt. 2, 78 ; Dleffen- 

 bach's New Zealand, ii. 280. 



1. Deinacrida heteracantiia. 

 heteracantha, White, Grays Zool. Misc. Pi. 2, 71. Dieffenbaelis N. Zea- 

 land, ii. 2tt0. Zool. Voy. Embus and Terror, xi. 24, pi. 5, f. 1. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Dieffenbach. 



b, c. New Zealand. Piesenled by Dr. Sinclair. 

 d. New Zealand. 



Genus 4. ANOSTOSTOMA, 



Anostostoma, G. R. Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser.2, i. 141. Serv. Hist. Orlh. 

 385 — Sleiiopeluiatus, Burin. 



1. Anostostoma atjstralasi,e 



auslralasise, G. R. Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 2, i. 143, f. 16. Serv. Hist. 

 Orth. 388. Duncan, Nat. Libr. xxxiv. 254, pi. 14. 



a. Australia. 



b. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Strange's collection. 



c. Australia. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



2. Anostosioma fem oralis. 



Mas. Ferruginea, subtilissime punctata ; caput nigricans, prothorace 

 paullo latius, inter antennas subcarinatiim, labro Jlavo ; palpi 

 maxillares nigrivanles, basi testacei ; palpi labiates testacei ; abdomen 

 breve, filis duobus apica/ibus brrvissimis ; pedes nigri, femoribus 

 rufis apice nigr is, femoribus posticis oblique striatis supra serratis, 

 tibiis triseriatim luteo spinosis. 



Male. Ferruginous, very finely punctured. Head shining, blackish, 

 a little broader than the prothorax, slightly ridged between the antenna? ; 

 three yellow dots representing the ocelli ; labrum yellow. Eyes livid. 

 Mandibles tawny. Maxillary palpi blackish ; first and second joints testa- 

 ceous; third, fourth and fifth joints testaceous at the base. Labial palpi 

 testaceous. Antenna; black. Prothorax transverse, with three very slight 

 transverse furrows, of which the first and second are interrupted. Pro- 

 sternum with two spines. Abdomen short, with two apical filiform 

 appendages which are shorter than the cerei. Legs black ; coxa aud 

 femora red, the latter black towards the tips; four anterior coxa? with a 

 stout spine; hind femora serrated above, obliquely ridged on the outer 

 side; tibia? with long stout luteous black-tipped spines which are arranged 

 in three series, those of the hind tibia; more numerous than the others ; four 



