442 CATALOGUE OF 



Var? Fcem. Fulvus, teslaceo aut iridescente varius ; frons sub- 

 sulcata ; antenna picea, testaceo fasciatce ; prothorax nigro indeter- 

 minate bivittatus ; oviductus basi piceus, apicem versus ferrugineus ; 

 pedes testacei, nigricante varii ; alee anticce testaceo reticulate, fuivo 

 venosce, nigricante confertim nolatce ; alee posticce nigrce, pallido 

 maculatce. 



Female. Tawny, here and there testaceous or greenish. Front with 

 a very slight longitudinal furrow. Eyes ferruginous, round, prominent. 

 Antenna? piceous, testaceous at the base and with many testaceous bands. 

 Prothorax with two slender irregular black stripes and with two strongly 

 marked transverse impressed lines. Oviduct almost straight, piceous at the 

 base, ferruginous towards the lip, somewhat longer than the abdomen. 

 Legs testaceous, stout, irregularly mottled with blackish ; spines wholly 

 testaceous. Fore wings with numerous blackish marks adjoining the veins, 

 longer by two lines than the hind wings, tapering from the base to the tips ; 

 veins lawny; reticulation pale testaceous; areolets mostly large and 

 regular; scapular vein parallel and approximate to the externo-medial lill 

 near the lip, where it diverges and is ramose. Hind wings black, with 

 very numerous pellucid spots which form irregular bands; space along the 

 exlerior border blackish wilh black-clouded veins ; longitudinal veins tawny. 

 Length of the body 18 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 62 lines. 



a. Para. Presented by R. Graham, Esq. 



3. MEEOXCIDIDS HUMTLIS. 

 Acantlmdis humilis, Serv. Hist. Orth. 455. 

 Brazil. 



4. MERONCIDIUS SPECULARIS. 



Locusta specularis ? Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 38 Acanthodis specularis, Serv. 



Rev. 54 Acanthodis immaculipennis, Serv. Hist. Orth. 453. 

 Brazil. 



Var.? Fcem. Fulvus ; caput antice riridescens, vertice 



carina albida; prothorax subtuberculatus, piceo septemvittatus ; 

 abdominis segmenta piceo fasciata ; oviductus niger, basi fulvus ; alce- 

 anticce albido reticulate?, testaceo venosce, nigro maculatce; alee posticce 

 nigricantes. 



Female. Tawny, rather stout. Head with some irregular longitudinal 

 black streaks on the vertex; keel between the antenna? whitish; fore part 

 greenish. Eyes testaceous, round, prominent. Antenna? brown, whitish 

 at the base beneath. Prothorax thinly and minutely tuberculate, with 

 seven irregular piceous stripes, of which the two inner pair are incomplete. 

 Abdomen wilh piceous bands on the hind borders of the segments. Oviduct 

 black, tawny towards the base, almost straight, as long as the abdomen. 

 Legs stout, partly clouded with piceous; spines whitish towards the lips, 

 which are black; hind femora five-eighths of the length of the fore wings. 

 Fore wings longer by two lines than the hind win^s, tapering from ihe 

 base to the lips, with many black spots adjoining the testaceous veins; 

 reticulation whitish testaceous ; areolets mostly large and regular; scapular 



