76 PROF. P, U. UHIER — ENTJMEUATION OF THE [Jan. 15, 



highly polished, convex in the middle, transversely impressed at 

 base, black with a yeUow tip and a broad yellow band across the 

 middle ; front yellow, oblique, convex, polished, separated from 

 the clypeus by a deep suture, the clypeus short, tumidly convex, 

 pale testaceous, the rostrum also testaceous, stout, reaching to the 

 middle coxae. Prouotum hardly longer than the head, transverse, 

 moderately convex, the lateral margins a little oblique, curved, the 

 anterior margin bluntly curved and carried nearly balf the length 

 of the eyes into the base of the head ; the colour black with a 

 broad Imiate yellow band behind the anterior submargin, the 

 posterior margin feebly sinuated. Scutellum equilaterally trian- 

 gular, subaciiminate, bordered with yellow. Legs pale testaceous ; 

 the spines, tip of tibia}, and end of tarsi bi'own. Wing-covers 

 with three long yellow stripes, besides a cuneiform spot near the 

 tip, outside of A\hich is a transverse curved large spot, and the 

 superior apex broadly and ol)liquely covered "\^ith yellow, which 

 spreads from the costal area ; the costal margin reddish ; veins 

 slender, forming few and large areoles near the tip. Abdomen 

 strongly tapering ; tergum bright red, sometimes fulvous at tip ; 

 the last ventral segment hardly longer than the preceding one, 

 hardly sinuated ; inferior genital valves uniting to form a long 

 cornute appendage, coarsely punctate, set with stiif bristles, and 

 cur^ ed down on the acute tip. 



Length to end of abdomen 5^-6 mm. ; width of pronotum 



mm. 



Six specimens of this showy species Mere secured near Kings- 

 town and on both sides of the island. The specific name was 

 suggested by the rod-like pack of stripes on the wing-covers. 

 These organs are blunter than in the preceding species, and the 

 wings are smoky brownish, paler on the anterior margin, and the 

 veins are darker. 



Tettigoxia (Diedeocephala) sagittifeka, sp. nov. 



Form of D. flavkeps, Biley, sage-green above, pale gi'eenish 

 yellow beneath. Vertex with the sides a little rounded, the apex 

 triangular, with, the immediate tip a very little blunt ; colour pale 

 orange, with an irregular whitish spot around the black ocelli con- 

 nected with an oblique stripe running forward to meet its fellow 

 at the apex of the arrow-shaped black spot on the tip of vertex ; 

 base with a pair of small ^^hite spots on the middle, space near the 

 antero-lateral border with three small spots, and the supra-antennal 

 plate also white ; front oblique and convex, dusky, dotted with 

 pale yellow, the very summit smooth whitish ; clypeus small, 

 convex, pale testaceous ; the rostrum reaching to the middle coxae, 

 brown at tip. Pronotum shorter than wide, bean-shaped, a broad 

 lobate pale spot in front on each side, connected in the middle by 

 a band of the same colour, and carrying a line of dark brown dots 

 near the anterior border, the posterior border a little emarginate 

 in the middle ; the surface closely rugulose. Scutellum yellow, 

 with a black spot at each Imsal angle; and sometimes two minute 



