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spines whitish, wilh black tips, longest on the inner side. Pure wings 

 cinereous on half the length fYoni the tips, whitish along the hind border ; 

 disk with a subqnadrate whitish spot, with three exterior oblique abbre- 

 viated whitish bands, and with two more exterior longitudinal whitish 

 streaks which are connected at the base and extend to the tip; veins 

 brown towards the tips. Hind wings pale cinereous; veins black, tawny 

 towards the base. Length of the body 26 lines ; expansion of the fore 

 wings 54 lines. 



The prothorax is shorter than that of C. ranacea. 

 a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



18. CYRTACANTHACRIS VARIEGATA. 



Fcem. Tesiacea ; vertex ferrugineo oblique bistrigatus, anlice sub- 

 hexagonalis ; antenna paltide lulece ; prothorax vittis duabus 

 dorsalibus vitlisque duabus lateralibus subtrigonalibus ferrugineis 

 latissimis ; prosterni spina albida ; tibiae posticce fascia basali 

 dimidioque apicali rufescentibus ; ala> anticce apices versus cinerea, 

 striga coslali brevi lata tineisque subcostalibus nigro areolatis, slriga 

 postica basali fusca, maculis duabus discoidalibus pallido venosis, 

 fasciis quinque exterioribus obliquis indelerminatis ; alee poslicte 

 pallide cinerece. 



Female. Testaceous. Head smooth ; vertex with two lanceolate 

 oblique ferruginous streaks which converge towards the depressed and 

 slightly hexagonal fore part; front thinly punctured, with four keels, the 

 inner pair parallel, very shallow towards the face, the outer pair diverging. 

 Eyes fusiform, with several brown longitudinal lines. Antenna3 pale 

 luteous. Prothorax scabrous, with a dorsal ridge and with the usual four 

 transverse impressed lines ; four very broad ferruginous stripes, the outer 

 pair nearly triangular ; fore border rounded ; sides slightly rounded ; hind 

 border elongated, slightly angular. Prosternal spine whitish, thick, curved, 

 very convex in front, extending a little beyond the fore border of the meso- 

 sternnm. Hind femora shorter than the abdomen. Hind tibiae shorter 

 than the hind femora, reddish for half the length from the tips; a red band 

 near the base; spines white with black tips, longest on the inner side. 

 Fore wings cinereous towards the tips ; veins whitish ; longitudinal veins 

 partly red ; a short broad costal streak and two subcostal lines formed by 

 black areolets ; a brown streak near the hind border proceeding from the 

 base ; two brown pale-veined spots in the disk ; first spot round, near the 

 base ; second more or less elongated ; five exterior oblique abbreviated and 

 interrupted bands with blackish borders ; first band cinereous ; second, 

 third, fourth and fifth pellucid, with testaceous or brownish veins; fourth 

 and fifth much dislocated. Hind wings pale cinereous ; veins reddish, mostly 

 black in the exterior part. Length of the body 39 lines ; expansion of the 

 fore wings 70 lines. 



a, b. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



