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antennæ are longer than the body, light brown, pale at the bases of the joints, and 
have a broad yellowish ring before the apex; the basal joint is not greatly thicker than 
the rest. The prothorax is narrower and rather longer than the head, and smooth. The 
mesothorax is roughly granulated above and beneath ; and the sides of the pronotum 
have each two'distinct raised lines. The colour of head, pro-, and mesothorax is through- 
out a clear light bluish green. The metathorax above and the abdomen are of a dingy 
faded brownish hue, but the metathorax beneath is of a light red hue. The abdomen is 
cylindrical and shining, the terminal dorsal segment is truncated at its apex ; the genital 
segments are smooth, and not very prominent; the anal styles short, cylindrical, and 
very obtuse at the apex. The legs are quite simple and of a uniform reddish colour. 
The tegmina are short and truncated at the apex, the prominence in the middle is conical 
and obtuse; they are of a yellowish colour, brown towards their tips, but sometimes 
uniform yellow; the wings are obtuse, smoky hyaline, paler towards the base, and their 
costal area is similarly coloured to the tegmina, i.e. yellowish, with brown tips and 
edges. 
Hab. Islands of Gilolo and Batchian, taken by Mr. A. R. Wallace. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq., three 
examples). 
NECROSCIA CONICIPENNIS. wm. Cylindrica, sordide olivaceo-fusca, granulata ; tegmi- 
nibus et alarum area costali olivaceo-nebulosis, maculis obscurioribus et plagis palli- 
dioribus signatis; eapite quadrato, supra plano, declivi, absque ocellis, oculis valde 
prominentibus, supra fulvo, lateribus olivaceis; antennis setaceis, olivaceis, fulvo mul- 
tiannulatis ; mesothorace cylindrico, (eum prothorace) opaco, granuloso, medio bitu- 
bereulato; abdominis segmentis dorsalibus tribus terminalibus paulo abbreviatis; 
stylis analibus filiformibus, curvatis; operculo haud convexo, apice inciso; tegmi- 
nibus apice late rotundatis, medio valde conico-elevatis; membrana alarum pallide 
fusca, diaphana; pedibus brevibus, pallidis, olivaceo-nebulosis, femoribus tibiisque 
apice obscurioribus.—Long. corp. 2" 8"; anten. 1" 10" ; mesothor. 44” ; abdom. 
1" 24"--81" —1" 6”; tegmin. 3”, ale 1” 11”. 
Resembles N. Larunda, Westw. (Cat. Phasm. pl xxvii. f. 3), in general form and 
colours, but differs greatly in its shorter tegmina, with extraordinarily high and acute 
median elevation. The head is rather short and subquadrate in shape, the erown plane 
(leaving a prominent oceiput) and fulvous, while the rest of the head is dull olivaceous. 
The eyes are very prominent. The antennæ are very slender, and alternately ringed 
with dark olive and fulvous. Tho pro- and mesothorax, and under side of metathorax, 
are rough and opake, but not acutely tubereulate, the mesothorax having only two 
faintly elevated and obtuse tubercles in the middle. The genital operculum reaches the 
dorsal tip of the abdomen, and is of the ordinary oblong shape, with the apex notched in 
themiddle, as in N. Aruana (Westw.), N. Siphylus (Westw.), N. Larunda (Westw.), and 
several other species. The legs are rather short, and variegated with light and dark 
brown and olive-brown, with the tips of the femora and tibiæ ich darker. 
Hab. Sumatra (Wallace). One example (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.). 
