ACBIDIDJ3 623 



Male. Testaceous, moderately stout. Head short, smooth; tip of the 

 vertex convex, finely punctured, tapering to the front between the antennae, 

 where it forms two slight parallel keels, which extend to the face; outer 

 keels nearly parallel ; front punctured. Eyes elliptical, rather flat. Pro- 

 thorax short, widening hindward, thickly punctured, with six broad piceous 

 stripes; keel extremely slight; transverse impressed lines slight; fore 

 border nearly straight ; sides rounded; hind border more rounded. Pro- 

 sternal spine long, slender, oblique, compressed, not extending to the 

 mesosternum. Abdomen with black marks along each side. Hind femora 

 longer than the abdomen, with three black spots on the outer side and with 

 two on the inner side. Fore wings cinereous, as long as the body ; veins 

 testaceous. Hind wings cinereous ; veins black, tawny towards the base 

 and along the interior border. Length of the body 12 lines; expansion of 

 the fore wings 26 lines. 



o. Monte Video. Presented by C. Darwin, Esq. 



ACRTDIUM PANTHEEINUM. 



Luteum, gracile, nigro guttatwm ; fastigium nigro marginatum ; prothorax 

 subscaber, non carinatus, poslice vix latior ; prosterni spina gracilis, 

 acuta ; pedes pallide virides, femoribus luteis nigro guttatis, tibiis 

 quatuor anterioribus nigro fasciatis ; alee anticce diaphana, pallido 

 venosce, corpora paullo breviores. 



Luteous, slender. Head smooth ; tip of the vertex hexagonal, 

 bordered with black ; front with six well defined black-dotted keels, the 

 four inner keels diverging towards the face. Eyes testaceous, elliptical. 

 Prothorax slightly scabrous, irregularly black-dotted, hardly wider hind- 

 ward; keel not apparent; transverse impressed lines well defined; fore 

 border and sides almost straight ; hind border much rounded. Prosternal 

 pine slender, acute. Legs pale green. Femora luteous, black-dotted ; 

 hind femora as long as the abdomen ; four anterior tibia with black 

 bands ; spines of the hind tibiae with black tips. Wings pellucid ; veins 

 pale green or pale testaceous. Fore wings a little shorter than the body. 

 Length of the body 13 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 24 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by J, Taylor, Esq. 



ACRIDIUM? DAMNIFICUM. 



damnificum, Sauss. Rev. Zool. xiii. 164. 

 Tennessee. 



Africa. 



A. Hind wings with a band. 



a. Prothorax spotted. - - moestum. 



b. Prothorax not spotted. - iudecisum. 



B. Hind wings not banded. 



a. Hind wings rosy at the base. 



* Prothorax with one keel. septemfasciatum. 



