ACRIDIDJ:. 571 



Male. Tawny, rather slender. Head and protburax with a testaceous 

 stripe. Head smooth ; fore part of the vertex hexagonal ; a brown lanceo- 

 late streak bordered with yellow on both sides proceeding from each eye to 

 the mouth; front thinly punctured; the four keels blackish-bordered, 

 diverging very slightly towards the face. Eyes ferruginous, elougate- 

 ellipiical. Pro thorax scabrous, wilh four ferruginous stripes; inner stripes 

 broad; outer stripes widening towards the hind border, bordered with 

 yellow on the outer side and partly so on the inner side ; fore border slightly 

 rounded; sides straight; hind border much rounded. Prosternal spine 

 thick, oblique, slightly curved, brownish at the tip, extending a little 

 beyond the fore border of the mesosternum. Hind femora as long as the 

 hind tibiae and as the abdomen ; spines of the hind tibiae whitish, with 

 black tips, longest on the inner side. Fore wings cinereous, a little longer 

 than the body, with many dots which are formed by blackish or brown 

 veins; veins elsewhere whitish testaceous; some of the longitudinal veins 

 blackish or reddish towards the base. Hind wings pellucid ; veins black, 

 pale green towards the base. Length of the body 26 lines ; expansion of 

 the fore wings 60 lines. 



It has most affinity to C. guttulosa, from which the prosternal spine 

 sufficiently distinguishes it. 



a. Australia. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Var. #. Stripes of the prothorax paler, the inner pair with a short 

 black line along the outer side of each. 



b. Moreton Bay. Presented by Gibbons, Esq. 



43. CYRTACANTHACBIS PROXJMA. 



Foein. Fulva ; caput et prothorax vitta testaceaferrugineo submarginata ; 

 prothorax subcarinatua, villis duabus abbreviatis guttisque duabus 

 exltrioribus niyris, lateribus testaceis ; prosterni spina crassa, sub- 

 arcuala, mesosternum altingens ; femora postica et abdomen aqm- 

 longa, ilia nigro bilineula ; alee antiae corpore vix breviores, maculis 

 plurimis fuseescentibus ; alee posticce pallidiores, nigro venosce. 



Female. Tawny. Head and prothorax with a testaceous stripe which 

 is slightly and incompletely ferruginous-bordered. Head smooth; vertex 

 hexagonal in the fore part ; front thinly punctured ; the two inner keels 

 parallel; the two outer diverging towards the face. Eyes ferruginous, 

 elongate-elliptical. Prothorax scabrous mostly testaceous on each side, 

 with two short black stripes in the disk and with two exterior black dols; 

 fore border very slightly rounded; sides straight; hind border much 

 rounded. Prosiernal spine thick, slightly curved, extending to the fore 

 border of the mesosternum. Hind femora with two black lines on the outer 

 side, as long as the abdomen and as the hind tibiae ; spines of the latter 

 wilh black tips. Fore wings cinereous, nearly as long as the body, with 

 several brownish spots ; veins pale testaceous, blackish in the spots. Hind 



