264 CATALOGUE OF 



keels slightly defined. Abdomen lanceolate, more than twice the length of 

 the proihorax, with two very incomplete brown stripes. Cerci lanceolate, 

 moderately long. Oviduct hardly curved, a little longer than the abdomen. 

 Legs moderately long and slender; hind femora and four anterior til>ia3 

 with a few very short and slender spines on each side beneath; hind tibia? 

 with four rows of numerous minute spines and with very short apical spurs. 

 Fore wings nearly half the length of the abdomen, with a blackish costal 

 stripe. Length of the body *1\ lines. 



a. Auckland, New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



Country unknown. 



37. DECTICUS FRONTALIS. 



Fcem. Viridis, luteo wrius ; caput prothorace paullo lalius, cornu 

 antico brew porrecto rotundato sulcato, fronte magna, clypeo luteo, 

 labro flavescente albo ; antenna picece, basi pallidce ; prothorax 

 aspere punctatus, carinis lateralibus bene determinates , lateribus 

 pallide luteis subreflexis, margine postico recto ; abdomen e plagis 

 fuscis luteo submarginatis quadrivittatum ; oviductus fulvus, sub- 

 arcuatus, apice niger, corpore vix brevior ; pedes femoribus anticis 

 trispinosis,femoribusposticis libiisque guatuor anterioribus biseriatim 

 spinosis, illis vittis duabus macularibus albidis, tibiis posticis quadri- 

 seriatim spinosis ; alee anticce cinerece, vitta costali alba fusco 

 plagiata, vitta discoidali viridi ; aUe postica diaphance, fasciis 

 plurimis fuscis. 



Female. Green, partly luteous, smooth, shining. Head a little 

 broader than the prothorax, with a little porrect, rounded, furrowed pro- 

 tuberance between the an ten n & ; front large, erect; clypeus luteous; 

 labrum large, yellowish white. Eyes round, slightly prominent. Fourth 

 joint of the maxillary palpi longer than the third ; fifth longer than the 

 fourth. Antenna? piceous ; pale towards the base. Prothorax roughly 

 punctured, with distinctly marked lateral keels ; sides much rounded, pale 

 luteous and slightly reflexed ; hind border straight, hardly elevated. 

 Sternum with two spines on each division. Mesothorax and metathorax 

 blackish. Abdomen with four stripes of brown patches, which are partly 

 bordered with pale luteous. Oviduct tawny, slightly curved upward, black 

 at the tip, nearly as long as the body. Fore coxae with the usual spines ; 

 fore femora with three very minute spines; middle femora unarmed; hind 

 femora with twelve minute spines on one side and with two on the other side, 

 and with a whitish stripe on each side composed of spots ; four exterior tibiae 

 with six spines on each side and with two above; hind tibia? with four rows 

 of spines. Fore wings cinereous, with a green stripe in the disk and with 

 a white costal stripe, the latter including a row of brown patches which are 

 intersected by ramose white veins. Hind wings pellucid, with numerous 

 mostly irregular brown bands which include the black transverse veins; 

 costal veins green. Length of the body 14 lines; expansion of the fore 

 wings 30 lines. 



