280 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



94. Locust grasshopper. Yale's New Zealand, p. 72. 



Polack, i., p. 319. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. 



Dr. Sinclair has Drought from New Zealand two or three species 

 of Locustidse. 



95. Mantis. 



Dr. Sinclair brought the egg-case of a species of Mantis from 

 New Zealand. 



96. Deinacrida (Anostostoma, G. R. Gray}. Hetera- 



cantha. White in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1842, 78. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Drs. Dieffenbach and Sinclair. 



Hind legs nearly twice the length of the insect ; tibiae quadran- 

 gular, broadest behind, the edges armed with spines coming out 

 alternately ; spines very strong and sharp : body brown, beneath 

 yellow : head punctured on the vertex : antennae at least 2J times 

 the length of the insect : thorax punctured, with some small 

 smoothish spaces in the middle ; the lateral margins somewhat 

 thickened. The head is not nearly so broad nor so large as in Anos- 

 tostoma; the mandibles much shorter; the labial palpi have the 

 terminal joint swollen at the end ; when dry it is slightly compressed 

 from shrinking; the maxillary palpi are very long; the three last 

 joints cylindrical, the last longest, gradually clubbed at the end. 



The length of the specimen brought by Dr. Dieffenbach, mea- 

 suring from the forehead to the end of the abdomen, exclusive of 

 appendages, is 2 inches ; from the end of the tarsus of hind leg to 

 end of antenna stretched out this specimen measures at least 

 12J inches. The specimen may be in the larva state. The prae- 

 sternum, as in Anostostoma, with two spines, approximating in the 

 middle ; meso-and meta-sternum deeply grooved behind, with a 

 strong tooth on the sides behind. 



Dr. Andrew Sinclair, since my short description was published 

 in the second part of Mr. Gray's Zoological Miscellany, has 

 brought from New Zealand a specimen of this species, which, 

 with its hind legs and antennae stretched out, is at least 14 inches 

 long ; its head and body, exclusive of appendages, being 2J inches. 

 The specimen is a female ; its ovipositor is rather more than an 

 inch long ; is slightly bent upwards, and compressed through the 

 greater part of its length, the 2 cultelli, forming its principal part, 

 being somewhat angular at the base. Nearly the whole insect is 

 of an ochry-yellow colour, the end of the ovipositor, and the ex- 



