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posticffi spinis terminalibus 4 annatoe. Plantulrc libcrffi bvcvissimoB, infevfc, prinio 

 segmento tarsorum niulto breviores. Lamina subgenitalis subtus truncata, baud 

 sulcata. Abdomen fuscum. Lobi niesosterni in spinas, nietasterni triangnlariter 

 producti. Ovipositor elongatus, rectus, apicem versus decurvus, apice ipso oblique 

 truneatus. ? . ( <? ignotus.) Ta)ii(I : corporis, 54mm.; pronoti, 14-5mm.; elytroruni, 

 12mm.; femorum posticorum, 36mm.; ovipositoris, 3.5mm. 



Patria. China, at Leu-kung-tao, in Wei-hai-wei, November 6th, 



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This magnificent species was taken by Lieutenant T. B. Fletcher, 

 of her Majesty's ship " Centurion," to whom I am indebted for 

 many interesting Orthoptera from Wei-hai-wei, Korea, and Japan, and 

 it is with a real pleasure that I dedicate this species to him. It cannot 

 be mistaken for any known form, and will later have to be removed to a 

 new genus. It differs from DramaihiKa, Stein., in many points. The 

 head is larger and more produced, the pronotum is considerably longer ; 

 the presence of the central keel on the pronotum, the absence of the 

 humeral angle of the lateral lobes, the anterior tibiiv with four, and 

 not three, spines in front on the upper margin, and the form of the 

 subgenital lamina in the ? , all tend to distinguish it. Also the lobes 

 of the mesosternum are not merely triangular as in Dn/uHuhisa, but 

 are produced into long spines. The metasternal lobes are triangular. 

 It is however, not satisfactory to establish a new genus upon a soli- 

 tary 'female. The very short plantulae, and the spiny femora show 

 that it is to the Vnimadnm group that it is most closely related. 

 It is the largest species of the genus, which contains the giants of the 

 aroup and I hope to receive further specimens, for Mr. Fletcher writes 

 about it, in litt., that it "was fairly common at the begmmng of 

 November on Leu-kung-tao, and was to be found amongst long grass, 

 in which it jumps about with long clumsy hops. Its mandibles are 

 immensely powerful, and will shear through a piece of stout paper like 

 a punch." 



Local Orthoptera in 1899.— In the early part of September last 

 I took five Kctobia livuht, Fabr., from oak and two fronr Scotch fir in 

 the open part of Broadwater Forest, near Tunbridge Wells. A tew 

 davs before that I obtained four examples of Mrmmnia varuiw, l^abr., 

 from oak at Theydon Bois, and on the 23rd of the same month a living 

 specimen of Vcriplmxrta (w.traUmae, Fabr., which a greengrocer found 

 in some fruit that came from the Canary Islands, was given to me. 1 

 am of opinion that the insect got into the fruit from the ship Some 

 time agionapatch of sugar (for moths) at ^'^^"^^ [^"^^ 

 specimen of K. la,r>nk-a, Fabr.-F. Milton, 7, Chilton Sti^et, 

 Betlinal Green, London, E. .Y..v.^.. 9t/,, 1899. [It is interes ing 

 to note Mr. Milton's capture of K. lapponica labr., at sugar. Ihi. s 

 an addition to the list of our Orthoptera that can be taken in this 



'""TRTH^PTErA'^T CaNNES-MaRCH AND ApRIL 1899.-1 pickcd Up a 



few grasshoppers at Cannes last spring. They were only such as came 

 in my way, and it does not at all disappoint me that Mr. j^-^^^^ 

 that '' none of them are particularly rare." He tells me that the> n- 

 lude rntir hipnnrtau,., L., T. s,d>,dat„s, L., T ;/.7'™;.s, Bris Acrot^flus 

 insnin-icus, Scop., I':pacrnma tludassina, De Geer lM-fn,t!ilus danin.s 

 L., ArrUhnn UJi.nn, L., and a very young larva oi Pyr;,o>norj,ha 



