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opake. Legs moderately stout, ridged, and furrowed; anterior legs much elongated, 
the tarsi especially extremely long (73 lines); all the femora with a single row of denti- 
culations at the apex beneath; colour black, speckled with yellowish. 
Hab. Taken by Mr. Wallace in New Guinea. Collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
This species, together with N. capito, N. Palinurus, N. longiceps and probably X. 
Styxius, Westw. (Cat. pl. ix. f. 3), and N. vittata, Serv., are sufficiently distinct from the 
other species of Necroscia, in their short antennæ and enlarged head, to form a separate 
genus. 
NECROSCIA PICTIPES. Fem. Cylindrica, thorace antice angustiore, pallide viridis, capite 
supra lineis duabus nigris; tegminibus intus purpureo marginatis, colore purpureo 
ramum medianum emittente; alarum area costali, postice sanguineo vittata, mem- 
brana lactea roseo vix tincta; pedibus flavidis, femoribus anticis maculis duabus, - 
femoribus intermediis annulo unico tibiisque macula subapicali nigris.—Long. 
corp. 3”; mesothor. 54”; abdom. 1" 5"-L3/" —1" 8”; tegmin. 3"; ale 1" 10”. 
Allied to N. annulipes (Gray), Westwood (Cat. Phasm. p. 150); but greatly differing 
in the colour of the wing-membrane, which is of deep rosy hue in M. annulipes and 
whitish-opake in N. pictipes with scarcely a trace of other colour. In other respects | 
ihe differences are only such as might exist in the opposite sexes of one and the same 
species, our example of N. pictipes being a female, and the specimen described by Mr. 
Westwood a male. N. pictipes is very much stouter (although not longer); and the head 
is oblong-quadrate, scarcely attenuated behind; the two black lines along the crown do 
not extend to the thorax, as they do in N. annulipes, besides being different in other 
respects. The pro- and mesothorax are light-green, with a broad reddish-brown stripe 
down the middle. The tegmina are oblong-quadrate, and their carina is rather strongly 
elevated in the middle; their colour is pale green, with the inner margin broadly purple, 
which colour emits a branch in the middle towards the central elevation. The costal 
pg a of the wings is also light green, with a reddish-purple vitta running very near the 
hind VEN e from base to apex. The legs are moderately short, unarmed pa yellowish; 
the anterior femora have two blackish spots on their inner. side, the anal femoraa - 
blackish ring, and the middle tibiæ a brown spot towards their apex; the hind legs are 
spotless. The abdomen, in its faded state, shows traces of a pale hue is the apical part; 
iE a en Pe pe down the middle, as in N. annulipes; the terminal dorsal 
gment has its apical angles pr N : j : 
E eis mer P E : oe and acute; the genital operculum is unusually — 
Hab. Chantaboun, Cambodia (Mouhot). One example (9). 
Nucroscta VIRIDILINEATA. Mas et fem. Linearis, olivacea, subtus pallide viridis, teg- | 
minibus et alarum area costali viridi-lineatis : pedibus viridibus, tibiis apice nigris; | | 
capite curto, suborbiculari, absque ocellis, oculis valde promidantibts ; thorace - 
eylindrico ; membrana alarum pallide fusca, hyalina.— & long. corp. 1" 10”: anten. 
gr p i ^» 
2 ; mesothor. 31”: abdom. 91" 91” _7, . e 
a -3 abdom. 977428” —1"; tegmin. 2”; ale 1” 4”. 2 long: 
