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brown line ; fringe brown, with basal ochraceous line : secon- 

 daries pale buff, internal area (excepting the abdominal region) 

 and the outer border cinereous, crossed by parallel undulated 

 brown bands ; two parallel subanal black lines, betAveen which 

 is a brown line ; marginal characters as in primaries : head, 

 palpi, and collar pale reddish browTi ; tegulse and thorax 

 greyish brown ; abdomen pale brown, three dorsal greyish 

 tufts ; two subanal dusky bands, the inner one broad ; anal 

 tuft tipped with brown : wings and body below pale buff, 

 markings only indicated on the apical half of primai-ies and 

 costa of secondaries, the latter covered with hair ; an apical mar- 

 ginal sinuated black line. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Apparently allied to H. Vinsonii of Gu^n^e, but certainly 

 distinct. 



Tineina. 



Genus Laverna. 



Laverna plumijjes^ n. sp. 



Primaries shining brown, irrorated with black ; a subapical 

 black spot ; fringe grey : secondaries sericeous pale brown, 

 the apical area darker ; fringe pale brown : head and thorax 

 olive-brown, abdomen pale brown : wings below shining pale 

 brown : body and legs below shining whitish ; tibiae of second 

 pair of legs with a long terminal pencil of hair-scales between 

 the spines ; tibia? of hind pair densely clothed with long pro- 

 jecting hairs. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



My thanks are due to Lord Walsingham for kindly pointing 

 out the affinity of this species to Laverna phragmitella. 



XLVIII. — Preliminary Notice of new Species of Orthoptera 

 and Hemiptera collected in the Island of Rodriguez by the 

 Naturalists accompanying the Transit-of-Vemis Expedition. 

 By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



Orthoptera. 



Genus Nemobius. 



Nemobius lufeolus, n. sp. 



Stramineous ; vertex of head greyish ; pronotum irrorated 

 with brownish, with a lateral slender ridge and a central de- 

 pressed line ; posterior abdominal segments greyisli ; cerci as 

 long as oviduct, hairy ; oviduct castancous below and at the 

 tip ; tegniiua nearly extending to the end of abdomen, pale 



