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XlPHIDIUM HASTATUM. 



Locusta hastata, Charp. Hor. Ent. 113 — Xiphidium hastatum, Fieber, 

 Lotos, iii. 170 ; iv. 223. Watt. Disq. Orth. ii. 3. 



Hungary. Servia. 



o, b. Bulgaria. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



Xiphidium brevipennis. 

 c, b. Massachusetts. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



Xiphidium attenuatum. 



attenuatum, Scudder, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. 305. 



Illinois. 



Xiphidium hecticum. 



hecticum. Gerst. Arch. Naturgesch. xxxv. 214. 



Zanzibar. 



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Xiphidium Sinense. 



Mas. Pallide testaceum, vitta fusca antice atlenuata; prothorax sub- 

 punctatus; ala postica diaphana?, costa apice teslaceo strigata. 



Male. Pale testaceous, smooth, shining. Head and prothorax with 

 a broad brown stripe, which tapers from the hind border of the prothorax 

 to the tip of the vertex. Eyes brown, nearly round, rather large and pro- 

 minent. Disk of the prothorax thinly and very minutely punctured. Hind 

 femora rather shorter than the body ; hind tibiae as long as the hind femora, 

 with very minute spines. Fore wings longer than the body. Hind wings 

 pellucid, very little longer than the fore wings; costa with a pale testaceous 

 apical streak. Length of the body 7 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 

 17 lines. 



o. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 

 b. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 



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 Meconema memdionalis. 

 meridionale, Costa, Fauna del Regno di Napoli. 

 Naples. 



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 Locusta caudata. 

 a — c. Vienna. From M. Brunner de Wattenwyl's collection. 



