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ovate-cordiform in front), and in the form of the cerci, the margins 

 of the foliaceous terminal joints of which are arcuate. 



Fore tibia? with sixteen or seventeen teeth on the inner and ten on 

 the outer edge. 



Total length 115 millims. ; prothorax 41, of which the neck is 

 10 ; width of prothorax at supracoxal dilatation 10 ; height of head 

 8, breadth of head 1175 ; length of meso- and metanotum taken 

 together 19, of abdomen 53, of cerci 1275; breadth of terminal 

 joint of cerci 2 ; length of fore coxa 22 "5, femur 28, tibia to insertion 

 of tarsus 1 1 ; of intermediate femur 27, tibia 27; posterior femur 33, 

 tibia 38 ; tegmina 42 (or reaching to end of middle third of third 

 abdominal segment) ; breadth of marginal field of tegmina 3 ; length 

 of stigma 675 ; length from base of tegmen to stigma 14 ; length 

 of wings 35. 



Hub. Victoria River, N. Australia. The type in British Museum 

 was "captured on March 10th, 1856, by R. Elsey, Esq., during the 

 exploring expedition under Mr. Gregory." 



Archimantis armata. (Plate XXXVI. figs. 2, 2 a.) 

 A. armata, Wood-Mason, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, 4th ser. 

 vol. xx. p. 76. 



Hab. North Australia (C. French). 



jEthalochroa ashmoliana. 



Yates ashmolianus, Westw. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. 

 p. 272 ; Arcana Entomol. 1843, vol. ii. p. 52 (note f). 



Popal aschmoliana, Saussure, Mel. Orthopt. torn. i. fasc. 3, p. 309. 



JEthalochroa ashmoliana, Wood-Mason, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 April 1877, p. 308, rf ?.. ' 



Arsacia ashmoliana, Stll, Sv. Vet. Akad. Hand. 1877, Bd. iv. 

 no. 10, 75, $ . 



A male (var. simplicipes) from Bombay, in the collection of Mr. 

 F. Moore, differs from the type and from the specimens from Ben- 

 gal (Calcutta and Murshidabad) in not having the crests of the four 

 posterior femora developed into foliaceous lobes at the apex, and in 

 having the upper crest of the four posterior tibiae more developed 

 and with more regularly arcuate margins, and in having the ridge of 

 the posterior lobe of the pronotum more convex longitudinally. 



A gigantic female (var. insignis) in the India (olhn E.-I. Com- 

 pany's) Museum, South Kensington, marked " N. India," has the 

 lobes at the extremities of the four posterior femora more highly but 

 less regularly developed ; this specimen measures : — 



Total length 132 millims., length of prothorax 48, of which the 

 neck is 10, abdomen 61 — as against 115, 40, 95, and 52, the mea- 

 surements of the same parts in the Calcutta specimen of the same 

 sex. 



A female in the collection of Mr. W. B. Farr (though not labelled 

 as to locality, doubtless from Bengal) agrees exactly with the spe- 

 cimens from Calcutta and Murshidabad. 



