76 LIST OF aOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



two broad black stripes ; epistoma partly black ; mouth tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the middle-hips: eyes prominent: feelers 

 black : fore-chest with a black dot near the middle of the hind 

 border of the scutcheon ; furrows blackish ; hind-scutcheon slightly 

 rounded and adorned with a black spot near the base of each fore- 

 wing, armed with a stout tooth pn the middle of each side : scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest adorned with four obconical black stripes, 

 the outer pair with tawny net-work, of which there are some traces 

 in the middle pair ; tlie latter are much shorter than the former, and 

 are succeeded by two large black spots : abdomen obconical, much 

 longer than the chest, adorned above with three rows of black marks, 

 and on the last segment with two short black stripes ; a short black 

 stripe on the under side : oviduct black : legs tawny ; hips spotted 

 with black ; thighs striped with black ; tips of the claws and fore- 

 feet black ; fore-thighs armed with three long black teeth : wings 

 colourless, green along the fore border ; veins green, black at the 

 tips and on the hind borders of the fore-wings ; fore borders of the 

 hind-flaps tinged with brown. Length of the body 8| lines ; of the 

 wings 23 lines. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



C38. DuNDUBiA Melpomene, Fem. 



Nervus transversus lus siibcurvus, suhobliquus, angulum ohtusum 

 fingem, 2o triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us suhcurvus, 

 obliquUrS, augulum valde ohtusum Jingens, li longitudine ; 

 ^us subundatus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens ; 4tis 

 vix undatus subobliqmis, angulum vix acutiim Jingens, 3i lon- 

 gitudine. 



Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds of the length of 

 the first : first cross-vein very slightly curved, very slightly slanting , 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by thrice its length ; 

 second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, as 

 long as the first; third very slightly waved, slanting, forming a very 

 slightly acute angle; fourth hardly waved, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing a hardly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth curved, nearly 

 upright, forming an almost right angle. Body tawny : head nar- 

 rower than the fore-chest ; crown adorned with three united black 

 spots, each of which surrounds one of the eyelets ; face prominent, 

 very convex, adorned in front with two slender black stripes; some 

 of the furrows blackish : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching 

 the hind hips : eyes prominent : feelers black, tawny towards the 

 base : fore-chest narrower before than behind ; scutcheon adorned 



