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temora similarly shaped, but armed for the apical three fourths 

 of their leui^th ; tibiae very lotif^ and slender, of uniform width 

 and perfectly straight up to the base of the terminal claw, 

 armed with 5 spines on the outer edge, the basal two thirds 

 of which arc unarmed, and with 11 on the inner, rather less 

 than the basal half of which is unarmed. Four posterior legs 

 very short ; the femora stout, slightly tapering at either end, 

 with a transversely convex rib on each siile Ixitween the upjjer 

 and lower crests, prismatic, with each of the four angles 

 slightly crested ; the two upper crests minutely notched or 

 spinulose here and there, and converging apically to form the 

 strong triangular lobe that projects over the knees ; the two 

 lower ones are each also prolonged into a very sharp spine at 

 their apex ; the outer of them is sim[)ly, rarely, and minutely 

 spinulose, but the inner is furnished with three subtriangular 

 foliaceous lobes ; tibiae and tarsi slender and weak, 



Male unknown. 



Total length 53 millims. ; length of antennas 12 ; height of 

 liead 2*75 ; breadth of head 2*25 ; length of prothorax 15'33, 

 of which the neck is 4, width of prothorax at dilatation 2, at 

 base 1'33; length of meso- and metathorax 9; of abdomen 26, 

 breadth of abdomen 2; length of cerci 3'33, breadth of cerci 1 ; 

 length of fore coxa 8*5, femur 11, tibia (straight portion) 7'5; 

 of intermediate femur 3'25, tibia 5 ; of posterior femur 4*75, 

 tibia 5*25 ; tai"si all subequal, the intermediate ones the 

 shortest. 



Hub. Bangalore, Mysore. Collected by Private Thomas 

 Reedy J, of H.M. 45th Kegiment, from whom I have received 

 a number of interesting insects from the same district. 



Genus SCHIZOCEPHALA, Serville. 

 Subgenus Didymocorypha, nov. 



5oc??/ slender, sublinear. Antennte inserted and constructed 

 ])recisely as in Schizocephala bicornis, but not thickened at 

 the base. Head very narrow and enormously elevated, the 

 lateral or ocular lobes of the vertex being vertically prolonged 

 in the form of two slender gradually tapering cones, which are 

 in contact with one another throughout their whole length, 

 occupying the whole of the vertex, so that the median lobe of 

 this part is not developed and that the grooves bounding its 

 lateral lobes meet u[)()n the occiput at the basal junction of the 

 cones. Ocelli minute and hidden, just as in *S'. bicornis. The 

 face substantially as in this form and in Oxi/opldhalma chaly- 

 bea. Eyes perfectly lateral, but little salient. Prothorax 

 narrow, with its sides subparallel ; its front and hinder mar- 



