454 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Testaceous. Head smooth ; front minutely and very thinly 

 punctured. Antennae piceous, testaceous at the base and wilh several tes- 

 taceous bands. Prothorax finely tuberculate, with two transverse impressed 

 lines and with a much abbreviated longitudinal impressed line. Styles of 

 the subgenital lamina subclavaie. Legs stout; hind femora four-sevenths 

 of the length of ihe fore wings. Fore wings narrow, shorter by two lines 

 than the hind wings, with a few blackish points adjoining the veins, and 

 wilh blackish points along the interior border; areolets large. Hind wings 

 dark cinereous ; longitudinal veins tawny ; transverse veins brown. Length 

 of the body 18 lines ; expansion of the lore wings 42 lines. 

 a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



38. MERONCIDIUS IMMDNIS. 



Mas. Teslaceus, gracilis ; prolhorax vix tuberculatus ; cerci apice valde 

 arcuati ; styli fere lineares, subtus excavati , pedes graciles ; alee 

 antic<s cinerece, angustce, albido reticulaloe, testaceo venosa, tympani 

 margine fusco ; alte poslicce pallide cinerece. 



Male. Testaceous, slender. Head paler in front, where it is very 

 thinly punctured. Eyes tawny, nearly round. Prothorax very slightly 

 tuberculate, with two transverse impressed lines and with an indistinct 

 longitudinal impressed line. Abdominal appendages pilose ; cerci much 

 curved at the tips ; styles of the subgenital lamina nearly linear, concave 

 beneath. Legs slender; spines of the femora black, with red tips and with 

 an intermediate testaceous band ; spines of the tibia3 testaceous, with 

 piceous lips; hind femora a little more than two-thirds of the length of the 

 fore wings. Fore wings cinereous, narrow, longer by one line and a half 

 lhan the hind wings; longitudinal veins testaceous; reticulation whitish; 

 areolets large, regular ; scapular vein and externo-raedial parallel to each 

 other till near the tip, where they are ramose; tympanum partly bordered 

 with brown. Hind wings pale cinereous; veins testaceous. Length of the 

 body 12 lines; expansion of the fore wings 31 lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Miller's collection. 



39. MERONCIDIUS? CRENIFOLIUS. 



Locusta crenifolia, Haan, Verz. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Ind. Bez. Ins. 202, 



pi. 19, f. 6. 

 Borneo. 



Genus 137. CALAMOPTERA. 

 1. CALAMOPTERA IMHOFPIANA. 



Acanthodis (Calamoptera) Imhoffiana, Sauss. Rev. Zoo/. 1861, 130. 

 Mexico. 



Genus 138. DIACANTHODIS. 



Foem. Antenna articulo lo unispinoso. Prothorax margine antico 

 acervalim spinoso, lateribus bispinosis, margine postico confertim spinoso. 

 Oviductus longus. Pedes spinosissimi; femora supra subtusque spinosa. 

 Ala3 aequilongae, abdomine paullo longiores. Alae antics augusta?, lanceo- 

 latae, apice rotundatae. 



