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5. LAUREPA FRONTALIS. 



Mas. Testacea ; caput breve, antice nigricans el carinalum ; prolhorax 

 transversus, antice paullo angustior, utrinque nigricans, lateribus fere 

 rectis ; abdominis dorsum nigro fasciatum ; cerci breves ; a Ite anticce 

 abdomen longe superantes, tympano minima, vence mediastinalis ramis 

 nigricantibus ; alee postica valde longiores. 



Male. Testaceous, slender, shining. Head not elongated, blackish 

 and keeled in front. Eyes very prominent. Antennae tawny. Prothoiax 

 transverse, a little narrower in front, blackish on each side, where it is 

 vertical ; sides nearly straight. Abdomen with black abbreviated dorsal 

 bands. Cerci short. Fore wings extending much beyond the abdomen ; 

 tympanum very small, near the base ; longitudinal veins parallel ; trans- 

 verse sectors regular; subcostal space whitish, with ten or eleven oblique 

 blackish branches of the mediastiual vein. Hind wings extending much 

 beyond the fore wings. Length of the body 8 lines. 



a. N. Australia. Presented by J. E. Elsey, Esq. 



6. LAUREPA UNICOLOR. 



Mas. Fulva ; caput non productum, antice vix carinatum ; palpontm 

 articulus 3ns subsecuriformis ; antenna corpora plus duplo longiores ; 

 prothorax transversus, lateribus vix connexis, cerci abdomine 

 breviores ; tibia posticce vix selulosce, extus quadri spinosce, intus sex- 

 spinosce ; alte antica cinerece, reticulata, abdomen superantes ; al<e 

 posticce longiores. 



Male. Tawny, shining. Head much shorter than the prothorax* 

 slightly prominent between the sockets of the antennae. Eyes piceous* 

 prominent. Third joint of the palpi very slightly securiform, longer than 

 the second. Antennae more than twice the length of the body. Prothorax 

 transverse, not narrower in front; sides very slightly rounded. Cerci much 

 shorter than the abdomen. Legs rather slender ; hind tibiae hardly 

 setulose, with four minute spines on the outer side and with six on the 

 inner side. Fore wings cinereous, extending beyond the abdomen, regu- 

 larly reticulated above and in the subcostal part, where there are eight 

 oblique branches of the mediastinal vein; transverse sectors along the 

 scapular vein pale testaceous. Hind wings extending somewhat beyond 

 the fore wings. Length of the body 7 lines. 



a. Navigator's Island. Presented by the late Duke of Northumberland. 



7. LAUREPA OBSCURELLA. 



Mas. Fulva ; caput breve, antice subcarinatum ; antennce gracillimce, 

 corpore plus duplo longiores ; prothorax sub transversus, antice 

 angustior, lateribus fere rectis ; cerci breves ; pedes sat validi, tibiis 

 posticis utrinque subserratis extus quinque spinosis intus septem- 

 spinosis ; alee anticce abdomen superantes, apices versus reliculatcc, 

 tympano sat mayno ; aloe posticas valde longiores. 



Male. Tawny, slender, shining. Head not elongated, slightly promi- 

 nent between the eyes. Eyes prominent. Palpi slender; third joint 



