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connecting them; a similar spot at lower ends of meso- and metanotum, and 
one at the lower end of every joint (sternites) of abdomen, these latter are 
reddish ; prothorax 8 lines long, plain ; mesothorax 8 lines long with a few 
scattered small green points and two larger ones (small spines) on the 
mesonotum; metathorax 7 lines long and (with mesothorax) broadest at- 
the lower end. 
Legs long, rather slender, triangular, striated ; strie pinkish-brown ; 2 
small spines at lower ends of tibie ; tarsi very pubescent, tibie slightly so, 
also the anterior femora between spines ; ungues large, divergent, glabrous, 
piceous : anterior pair, femora much shorter than tibie, and deeply excised 
at upper end for more than 2 lines; 5 coloured distant spines on lower 
outer margin, the upper outer margin sinuate and uneven, with a tubercle 
on each side under coxe ; coxs large, stout, brownish, wrinkled: middle 
and posterior pairs with 4 small brown spines at lower end of femora. 
Ovipositor large, rounded and slightly pubescent; anal appendages thin at 
tips pubescent. 
The eggs of this insect are peculiar and worthy of a full notice. They 
somewhat resemble the seeds of a flowering garden-pea ; being slightly sub- 
4-angled in compressed parallelograms 2 lines long and 1 line broad, of a 
reddish-grey or light chocolate colour, a transverse section being linear- 
elliptic; their ends truncate with margins produced and rough, one end 
convex and one end umbonate with a little produced central boss or blunt 
mucro; the shell is crustaceous, slightly hardish, roughish, and much 
furrowed irregularly with impressed angular markings rather prettily dis- 
posed ; one of the lateral edges is smooth, produced a little and thickened, 
having near the narrower end of the egg a large ovate depression with a 
raised little seam around it, resembling also the hilum of a leguminous seed: 
nine eggs weigh two grains. 
À female, that I kept alive for some time under glass, laid 54 eggs in a 
fortnight, in the latter half of June; this she did by merely dropping them, 
without moving or showing any solicitude. She lived for three weeks, 
feeding on the bark of the young branches of arbor-vitæ (Thuja occidentalis), 
whieh she greedily ate, gnawing it off all round very cleanly. The fæces 
were plentiful and regularly formed in small narrow cylindrical brownish 
roughish rolls, 14 lines long, somewhat resembling the withered tips of the 
branchlets of the shrub on which she lived. 
Hab. At Pourerere, E. Coast, near Blackhead, County of Waipawa ; 
1884: Mr. Wm. Scott. 
Obs. I. I have subsequently (two months later) received from Mr. Scott | 
another living specimen of this insect, also a female, and precisely agreeing 
with the former one received from him. This second specimen, however, 
