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and slightly inclining to ferruginous at the borders, about 2 
as long astheabdomen. Front legs with a row of short spines 
beneath on the outer half; middle and hind legs with not 
numerous, but longer spines on their whole length. 
flab. Queensland. 
I place this species provisionally in the American genus 
Pelmatosilpha, to which it has most resemblance. 
Genus DEROPELTIS, Burm. 
Deropeltis Saussuret, n. n. 
| Deropeléis longipennis, Sauss. Mém. Soc. Genéve, xxiii. p. 117 (1873). 
This species is allied to D. albilatera, Stal (= Wahlbergi, 
Sauss., nec Stal). Ischnoptera longipennis, Walk. Cat. Blatt. 
B. M. p. 167. n. 29 (1868), appears to be synonymous with 
D., brevicollis, Serv. 
PancHLORINA. 
Genus RuyparosiA, Karsch. 
Rhyparobia rufipes, sp. 0. 
Exp. al. 63 millim.; long. corp. 38 millim. 
Female.—Head black above, with two pale lines running 
downwards to a transverse pale band, below which a large 
blackish patch fills up the centre of the face as far as the 
lower border of the clypeus; pronotum black, with a narrow 
pale yellow border running all round. Abdomen yellowish 
at the base and blackish towards the extremity, except at the 
sutures. Under surface black, with pale yellow sutures; 
abdomen with a broad, central, interrupted, reddish band, and 
with curved, pale yellow, comma-like lateral markings. Legs 
red, spines tipped with black. Tegmina subparallel, about 
twice as long as broad, shorter than the abdomen, and obtusely 
rounded at the ends; greenish grey, with small, scattered, 
pale yellow dots. Wings broad, rather shorter than the 
tegmina; costal area purplish brown, with a few yellow spots 
towards the extremity ; the rest of the wing brownish hyaline. 
Hab. Sierra Leone. 
Allied to &. thoracica, Kirb. 
Rhyparobia pallescens, sp. n. 
Long. corp. cum tegm. 40 millim. ue 
Female. — Head, pronotum, and tegmina light shining 
yellowish grey; ocellar spots pale yellow, mouth-parts in- 
