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flava; alee posticce diaphanee, apice obscuriores. Var. /3. Capitis 

 vittte exteriores dilalalce ; abdomen rufum, bast nigrum. Var. y. 

 Alee anticce cinerete, nigricante conspersce. 



Male. Black, slender, shining, nearly cylindrical. Head and pro- 

 thorax punctured, with four parallel yellow stripes, of which the outer pair 

 extend along the fore side of the eyes. Tip of the vertex flat, conical ; 

 front and face testaceous; keels slightly marked, diverging towards the 

 face. Eyes piceous, elongate-oval. Antenna? black, slender, testaceous 

 towards the base. Prothorax with the typical structure; fore border, sides 

 and hind border very slightly rounded. Pectus reddish cinereous. Pro- 

 sternal spine testaceous, transverse, very broad, furrowed in the middle. 

 Abdomen and legs testaceous. Middle femora striped with black; hind 

 femora longer than the abdomen, with black tips, and on each side with a 

 black stripe which ends in a black band ; hind tibia? bright red, a little 

 shorter than the hind femora, black and with a white band towards the 

 base, their spines with black tips ; hind tarsi red. Fore wings blackish, 

 much shorter than the body, with a slender yellow stripe near the hind 

 border. Hind wings pellucid-cinereous, darker at the tips; veins black, 

 paler at the base and along the interior border. Var. /3. Outer stripes 

 much dilated on the head. Abdomen red, black towards the base. 

 Var. -y. Fore wings cinereous, with many blackish speckles. Length of 

 the body 14 lines; expansion of the fore wings 22 lines. 



a. Swan River. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



b. Australia. From Mr. Stutchbury's collection. 



c. Australia. From Mr. Darnel's collection. 



d. Australia. 



.36. HETERACRIS CONOLOBATA. 



Mas. Nigricans, sat gracilis, subtus lestacea ; caput el prothorax flavo 

 'bivittata; fastigium conicum; frons testacea; prothorax brevius- 

 culus, vix carinatus, postice sublatescens ; prosterni spina crawa, 

 transversa, brevissima; abdominis dorsum rufescens, vitta maculari 

 nigra ; pedes rufescentes, femoribus posticis nigro bifasciatis ; alee 

 anticce obscure cinerea, corpore breviores, vitta posticajlava. 



Male. Blackish, rather slender, testaceous beneath. Head and pro- 

 thorax with two yellow stripes, which are united on the vertex ; tip of the 

 vertex conical and slightly depressed ; front testaceous, thinly punctured ; 

 keels well defined, diverging towards the face. Eyes livid, short-elliptical. 

 Proihorax rather short, slightly widening hind ward ; keel extremely slight ; 

 transverse impressed lines distinct; fore border slightly curved ; sides and 

 hind border more rounded. Prosternal spine transverse, thick, very short. 

 Abdomen above reddish and with a row of black spots. Legs reddish ; 

 hind femora rather longer than the abdomen, with two angular black bands 

 above and with black tips; hind tibia? somewhat shorter than the hind 

 femora, their spines with black tips. Fore wings dark cinereous, rather 

 shorter than the body, with a slender yellow stripe near the interior border ; 

 veins black. Hind wings diaphanous, slightly cinereous ; veins black, 

 pale towards the base and along the interior border. Length of the body 

 10 lines; expansion of the fore wings 21 lines. 



a. Australia. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



