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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
GATER I. 
Fig. 1. Sardina sagax, 8. Africa, 210 mm. 
Fig. 2. Sardina neopilchardus, New Zealand, 230 mm. 
Pruate II, 
Distribution of Sardina. The mean annual surface-isotherms of 6°, 12°, 
and 20°C. areshown. ///////, S. pilchardus; \\\\NX, 
S, pilchardus sardina; =, S. sagax ; \|\\|\|\\, S. neopilchardus. 
Pyare Loe, 
Diagrams of scales of Sardina. 
Fig. 1. S. pilehardus sardina, Barcelona, 140 mm. . 
Fig. 2. 8. pilchardus, Cornwall, 200 mm. (specimen figured by Day, 
Pode ©1887, pl. xv): 
Fig. 3. 8. pilchardus sardina, Trieste, 140 mm. 
Fig. 4. 8. pilchardus, Santander, 175 mm. 
Fig. 5, 8. pilchardus, Coruna, 160 mm. 
Fig. 6. S. pilchardus, Cornwall, 210 mm. 
Fig. 7. S. pilchardus sardina, Madeira, 180 mm. 
Figs. 8,9. S. pilchardus sardina, Constantinople, 140 mm. 
Figs. 10, 11. S. sagax, Japan, 200 and 190 mm. 
Fig. 12. 8. neopilchardus, Wellington, N.Z., 230 mm. 
Il.—Rhynchotal Notes—LX. By W. L. Disranr. 
HoMmopreRa. 
Fam. Membracida (continued from vol. xvi. p. 330). 
Oxyrhachis tenebrosus. 
Centrotus tenebrosus, Walk. List Hom. ii. p. 628 (1851). 
Hab. Sierra Leone. 
Oxyrhachis lamborni, sp. n. 
Body and legs piceous brown; tibize brownish ochraceous ; 
pronotal carinations paler, more than apical half of posterior 
pronotal process blackish ; membrane subhyaline, the base 
and costal margin brownish ochraceous, remaining vevation 
and a small spot at posterior angle of inner tegminal margin 
piceous ; pronotum thickly finely punctate, centrally carinate, 
the lateral processes broad, obtusely acute, a ie, upwardly 
