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formibus magnis armato; oculis magnis; antennis elongatis, filiformibus; abdominis 
segmento terminali reliquis latiore, medio emarginato, lateribus paulo divergentibus ; 
pedibus modice elongatis, elevato-lineatis, femoribus intermediis supra tibiisque 
infra spina brevi foliacea armatis.—Long. corp. 3" 11" ; anten. 2” 9” ; mesothor. 
11"; metath. 97°"; ped. antic. 3" 1°”, intermed. 2”, post. 2" 10”. 
The insect is almost as slender in body as the L. nematodes (De Haan); but the legs 
are very much shorter, thicker, and more ridged than in that or any of the allied species ; 
the shape of the terminal segment of the abdomen also distinguishes it from these and 
other members of the genus. The ear-shaped cephalic processes resemble those of Lon- 
chodes Taprobane, to which our species also approximates in the form of the legs; it 
differs, however, from the male of Z. Taprobane, as figured by Professor Westwood, in 
the shape of the apical abdominal segment. 
The colour is probably green in life, varied on the legs and antennæ with spots of a 
darker hue. The antennæ are very long, but filiform rather than setaceous in shape. 
The body has a number of small round warts scattered over its surface. The abdomen 
is as narrow as the thorax from the base to the end of the sixth segment; the seventh 
widens from base to apex, and is only half the length of the sixth; the eighth is some- 
what shorter; but the ninth is longer than either of them, and, instead of tapering to the 
end as in the allied species, becomes broader; it is broadly notched in the middle, and 
the two sides are somewhat divergent, with their apices broad and sinuated. The anal 
styles are short and concealed ; the terminal ventral segment reaches the tip of the eighth 
dorsal, and is much smaller. The raised lines of the legs, near the middle of the inter- 
mediate femora above and the tibiæ of the same legs beneath, are expanded into very 
short compressed spines; with this exception the legs are unarmed; the basal joints of 
the tarsi are only moderately elongated, and in the anterior feet are compressed. 
Hab. Ceylon (Nietner). One example, in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
LONCHODES FURCATUS, n. sp. Mas et fem. Cylindricus, granulatus, obseure fuscus ; capite 
oblongo, inter oculos bispinoso ; antennis longis, setaceis, articulo basali complanato ; 
` abdominis segmento terminali furcato. | 
Mas. Minor gracilis; thorace parce granulato; abdomine longitudinaliter elevato- 
lineato, segmento apicali ventrali tumido; pedibus modice elongatis, subeompressis, 
valde elevato-lineatis.—Long. corp. 1" 11" ; anten. 1" 27; mesothor. 6" ; metath. 
44” ; ped. antic. 1” 24”, intermed. 11”, post. 1" 137. (Pl. XLIV. f. 6.) 
Fœm. Major, robustior ; thorace dense acute tuberculato ; abdomine aspere granulato ; 
capitis spinis longis, validis, acutis; femoribus intermediis supra prope basin lobo 
magno foliaceo rotundato.— Long. corp. 3” 5” ; anten. 2" 4”; mesothor. 91^" ; metath. 
61^"; ped. ant, 2” 8”, ped. intermed. 1" 11”, ped. post. 2” 337. (Pl. XLIV. f. 5.) 
This species is readily distinguished by the forked shape of the terminal abdominal 
segment in both sexes. This structure seems to result from the fissure of the apex of the 
segment being very wide, and the sides diverging slightly, each forming a lobe of equal 
breadth from base to apex, with the sides strongly deflexed. The anal styles are short, 
and visible only underneath the entire base of the forked apical segment. The operculum 
