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angle, parted from the second by very much more than twice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved., upright, forming a hardly ob- 

 tuse angle, a little longer than the first ; third nearly straight, slant- 

 ing, forming an acute angle; fourth nearly straight, forming a 

 slightly aijule angle, much less slanting and a little shorter than the 

 third ; lifth straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle. 

 Body grass-green : disks of the head, of tiie chest and of the abdo- 

 men towards the base more or less tinged with tawny : head very 

 small, much narrower than the fore-chest ; face very convex, rather 

 prominent: mouth pale tawny, reaching the middle-hips: eyes rather 

 prominent: feelers black, pale tawny at the base: fore-chest de- 

 creasing much in breadth from the hind border to the fore border ; 

 sides straight, rounded at the base of the wing ; hind-scutcheon 

 narrow above, much broader on each side: no excavation on the 

 hind border of the scutcheon of the middle-chest: abdomen obconi- 

 cal, tawny beneath, much longer than the chest ; drums green, very 

 small, parted by a broad interval : legs green, tinged with tawny ; 

 feet pitchy : claws black ; fore-thighs armed with three stout tawny 

 teeth whose tips are black : wings colourless, tinged with green at 

 the base; a green stripe with a lawny tinge along two-thirds of the 

 fore border ; veins tawny ; green towards the base, black towards 

 the tips. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a, b. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



(y4. Cephaloxvs rostrata, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus rectus, subobliquus, angulum vix obtusum 

 Jingens, 2o quadruplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us erectus, 

 fere rectus, anyulum oblusum fingens, \o longior ; ^us fere 

 rectus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum finge7is ; 4us rectus, 

 obliquus, angulum rectum fingens, 3o multb brevior. 



Second marginal areolet about five-sixths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein straight, slightly slanting, forming a hardly 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by full four times its length ; 

 second upright, nearly straight, forming an ol'tuse angle, longer 

 than the first; third nearly straight, very slanting, forming an acute 

 angle, joining the base of the fourth marginal areolet ; fourth straight, 

 slanting, forming a right anyle, very much shorter than the third ; 

 fifth very slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a right angle. 

 Body vivid grass-green, tawny beneath, partly clothed with whitish 

 shining down : head small, narrower than the fore-chv=st ; face coni- 

 cal, remarkably prominent, forming a short horn ; mouth tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the middle-hips: feelers tawny: eves rather 



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