1878.] 



MR. A. G BUTLER ON A NEW PHYLLOPTERA. 



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marking pale castaneous ; meso- and metathorax glassy greyish, 

 with two or three opaque whitish spots ; abdomen sordid testaceous, 

 sides of the venter whitish ; pectus and posterior coxae whitish ; 

 anterior femora with the upper or interior surface castaneous at the 

 proximal end, otherwise greyish, spotted with cream-colour, with 

 two small tuberculose castaneous dots and a short longitudinal black 

 dash, three black denticles along the supero-interior margin, inferior 

 or exterior surface deeply grooved, paler, the distal half sordid 

 whitish, with an irregular longitudinal brown dash ; tibiae with the 

 proximal half whitish, expanded, compressed, and marked on each 

 side by two deep pyriform impressed spots, distal half cylindrical, 

 castaneous in the centre and black at the extremities, interior 

 margin with three fine spinules ; tarsi black, the terminal joint 



Phylloptera scgonoides. 



castaneous, with black claws : middle pair of legs longer than the 

 anterior pair, the tibiae yellowish, banded with black across the 

 centre and at each end, without the impressed markings of the 

 anterior pair : posterior legs with the femora compressed, tawny, 

 with an external longitudinal blackish lateral streak, inferior margin 

 deeply grooved, its exterior edge with four short black denticles ; 

 tibiae above flattened, slaty grey, with the distal end and a lateral 

 series of triangular spots cream-coloured, twelve black denticles 

 along the inner and eight along the outer margin, otherwise casta- 

 neous, subcylindrical, with about eleven delicate little spinules along 

 the inferior margin ; tarsi as in the other legs. Length of the body 

 23 millims., of the tegmina 91 millims., of the wings 96 millims. 



This species much resembles the New-World genus Segona, but 

 differs markedly in the structure of the anterior pair of legs. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1878, No. XLII. 



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