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of anterior tarsi longer than those of the two posterior pairs: middle and 
posterior pairs, femora four-angled, narrow above broad and flat below with | 
spines on all four edges ; of the middle pair the femora and tibi; are of equal 
length, 7 lines long, with an elevated spine on the outer edge of the tibis at the 
upper end: posterior pair, femora and tibi: also of equal length, 8 lines long. 
Hab. Seventy-mile Bush, near Norsewood, County Waipawa; 1883: 
W.C. 
Obs. I may also note that this specimen had lost its anterior left leg, 
and that a new one was growing to replace it. This new leg is very small 
and slim, less than 1 inch in total length, but agreeing in all minute par- 
ticulars with the right one, save that its more salient points were not fully 
developed. I suspect this loss of limb is a matter of rather common 
occurrence among the Bacilli,—from the great length of their slender legs, 
their habitat among the green leaves of trees in the exposed windy 
branchlets, and their known fighting and cannibal propensities. I have 
already noticed an instance of similar mutilation, in my description of 
B. sylvaticus (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xiv., p. 278). 
Section SarTATORIA. 
Family Locustm. 
Genus Deinacrida. 
Deinacrida armiger, sp. nov. 
Male: Whole insect smooth and shining and variously coloured. 
Head large, oblique, broadly ovate, 1 inch long, rather wider than pro- 
thorax, bright dark red-brown, vertex much convex ; eyes prominent sub- 
pyriform; antenne setaceous, 82 inches long, light brown, finely and 
densely pubescent; a lighter-coloured ridge between eyes and antenne 
with a linear oval centre; clypeus black with a narrow white lower margin 
bearing two dark longitudinal streaks; gene rugose, protuberant, black ; 
labrum large, emarginate, brown; palpi light tawny, largely clavate, tips 
sub-globular, whitish, pubescent; mandibles large, black and toothed, 
sub-rugulose, the left mandible larger and overlapping. Thorax: pro- 
thorax 4 lines wide, concave, sub-rugulose, whitish with a slightly reddish 
tinge, and blackish markings resembling a shield and its two supporters, 
and with narrow black anterior and posterior margins, side-margins slightly 
reflexed ; mesothorax 2 lines wide, reddish-brown, with two minute black 
markings and a black dot on each side; metathorax 1 line wide, of a similar 
colour and two black dots; sternum of thorax, coxæ, and femora below, 
light fulvous-red. Abdomen thick, convex, compressed, 13 lines long, 
much arched at second and third segments, light reddish-brown, irrorated, 
with blackish bands on lower margins of segments, and a reddish-pink hue 
on the lighter-coloured parts; anal appendages greyish, pubescent. Legs: 
