Orthoptera. 141 



•wings with testaceous callosities above and beneath. Legs 

 testaceous, with dark rings towards the end of the femora, and 

 obsoletely on the tibiae ; tarsi mostly black. Wings very iridescent 

 hyaline, without markings ; neuration black, except the subcostal 

 nervures and those of the pseudostigmatal space of the fore wings, 

 which are yellowish. 



Described from a single specimen, without special locality. 



This species much resembles M. lethifer, Wlk., from Natal, but 

 has somewhat narrower wings. 



ISOPTERA. 



Family TERMITID^. 



6. Termes, Linn. 



Many specimens of a species allied to T. sarawakensis, Haviland. 

 Abundant everywhere. Nests formed of a dark-brown papier- 

 mache, on stumps, or plastered against trunks of trees. 



Order 9.— ORTHOPTERA. 



By ^Y. F. KiRBT, F.L.S., F.E.S., etc. 



(PLATES XII -XIV.) 



The principal feature of the collection of Orthoptera is in the 

 comparatively large number of Forficulidoe obtained. This, how- 

 ever, is probably more apparent than real, for although in a few 

 countries, such as England and, still more, the United States, the 

 family is very poorly represented, there are probably a very large 

 number of existing species, which only require to be collected, for, 

 as a rule, they are passed over entirely by collectors. 



As regards the other Orthoptera, it is remarkable how many 

 important groups appear to be represented in Christmas Island 

 only by a single conspicuous species, generally peculiar to the 

 island, as far as is at present known. Most of the species in the 

 following list which have been previously described from other 

 countries, are wide-ranging species of Blattidse. Want of sufficient 

 material renders it somewhat doubtful whether other specimens 

 provisionally referred to known species may not ultimately prove 

 to be distinct. 



