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a little behind the middle a rounded angle. Legs slender ; four anterior 

 femora bidentate beneath ; hind tibiae with very short spines. Length of 

 the body 5£ lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Genus 8. HYMENOTES. 

 Hymenotes, Westw. Mag. Nat. Hist. iii. 493. 



1. Hymenotes triangularis. 



triangularis, Westw. Mag. Nat. Hist. iii. 493, pi. 67, f. 3. 



a, b. Philippine Isles. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 

 c. ' ? From Mr. Argent's collection. 



2. Hymenotes platycorys. 



platycorys, Westw. Mag. Nat. Hist. iii. 



o, b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



c, d. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



e. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Salmon's collection. 



/. Dix Cove, West Africa. From Major Parry's collection. 



g. West Africa. From Mr. Vigors' collection. 



3. Hymenotes arcuata. 



Acridium (Hymenotes) arcuatum, Haan, Verz. Gesch. Ned. Ind. Bez. Ins. 

 166, pi. 22, f. 8. 



New Guinea. 



a. My sol. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



b. Aru Islands. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Genus 9. OPHIOTETTIX. 



Fcem. Corpus gracile, laeve, longi-fusiforrae, apterum. Caput longis- 

 simum, oblique ascendens, fere cylindricum, prothoracem longe superans. 

 Oculi valde prominuli. Antennae longissimse, gracillimae, 12-articulatae ? ; 

 articuli quatuor apicales dilatati. Prothorax subtricarinatus, poslice 

 lanceolatus, abdominis apicem attingens. Pedes longi, graciles. 



Female. Body slender, smooth, elongate-fusiform, wingless. Head 

 very long, obliquely ascending, rising much higher than the prothorax, 

 forming a nearly cylindrical horn, which bears on its tip the very prominent 

 eyes. Antenna? 12-jointed?, very long and slender; ninth and tenth 

 joints dilated and lanceolate above; eleventh and twelfth slightly dilated. 

 Prothorax with the usual transverse impressed lines and with three very 

 slight keels; hind part lanceolate, extending to the tip of the abdomen, 

 Legs long, slender. 



