716 CATALOGUE OF 



wide rotundato ,- prosterni spina robusta, latissima ; femora postica 

 abdomini aquilonga, supra niyro biplagiata, subtus intusque rufa; 

 tibice posticce rufce, basi albida niyro unistriyatcs; alte antica 

 cinerecB, corpore breviores, villa discoidali fusca pallido septem 

 macuiata ,- alee postictc diaphance, apice fuscescenles. 



Female. Tawny, slender, testaceous beneath. Head and prothorax 

 with a black line on each side. Head smooth, slightly elongate; vertex 

 convex, with a guttular black stripe ; lip flat, hexagonal ; front with four 

 slight keels, which diverge towards the face. Eyes elliptical, much rounded 

 on the hind side. Antenna testaceous. Prothorax short, widening hind- 

 ward, with a very slight keel; disk nearly flat; transverse impressed lines 

 strongly marked; fore border nearly straight ; sides slightly rounded; hind 

 border much rounded. Prosternal spine stout, about four times as broad 

 as thick, flat along the tip. Hind femora as long as the abdomen, red 

 beneath and on the inner side, with two black patches above ; hind tibiae 

 bright red, rather shorter than the hind femora, whitish and with a short 

 black streak near the base on the outer side; spines with black tips. Fore 

 wings cinereous, rather shorter than the body, with a brown discoidal stripe 

 which includes seven pellucid spots and in the exterior part is merely 

 represented by brownish veins at intervals. Hind wings pellucid, brownish 

 at the tips; veins black, whitish at the base and along the interior border. 

 Length of the body 9 lines; expansion of the fore wings 17 lines. 



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



b. Australia. Presented by the Haslar Hospital, 

 e. Australia. 



Genus 36. PLATYPHYMA. 



Gryllus, Rossi, Charp. Podisma, Costa Acridium (Podisma), Serv. 

 Platyphyma, Fisch. Orth. Eur. 373. Sauss. Rev. Zool. xiii. 161. 



1. PLATYPHYMA GIORN.E. 



Gryllus Giornae, Rossi, Faun. Etr. ii. 104. Charp. Hor. Ent. 175 Acri- 

 dium (Podisma) Giornae, Serv. Hist. Orth. 6bO Podisma commune, 

 Costa. Faun. R. Nap. 48, pi. 4, f. 6, 7. 



a, b. South France. From Prof. Westwood-'s collection. 



2. PLATYPHYMA CALOPTENOIDES. 



Caloptenoides, Brun. Zool. Bot. Gesch. Wien. xi. 307, pi. 16, f. 24. 

 Servia. 



3. PLATYPHYMA AZTECA. 

 Aztecum, Sauss. Rev. Zool. xiii. 162. 

 Mexico. 



