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widest in the middle and decurrent centrally beginning at the mesonotum ; 
sides of abdomen deep black-brown ; ventral segments throughout blotched 
with black-brown in three irregular and wide longitudinal lines; posterior 
tibie, tarsi, and spines, with the ovipositor, piceous; tibie quadrangular, 
anterior pair with ten spines in two inner rows; middle pair, fourteen spines 
in three rows ; and posterior pair with seventeen spines in four rows (three 
of them albneantely bearing five spines each), the outer row being very long 
and acute, increasing in length downwards, the lowest spine at the base of 
tibia 4 lines long; femora, anterior, and middle pairs smooth and spineless; 
posterior pair each having two longitudinal rows of spines, eight in a row, on 
the inner side, regularly marked on the outside with transverse wavy light 
lines; core each armed with a single spine, those of anterior pair long and 
sharp, of posterior short and very obtuse; four joints of tarsi cushioned, 
each with a prominent broad transverse pad, besides pulvilli; last joint of 
tarsi the longest; terminal spines, or hooks, of tarsi large, long, and faleate; 
ovipositor curved upwards, blades slightly concave, thin, and elliptical at 
apex ; four long stout acute spines above, two on each side of anus; pos- 
terior femur 14 inch long, tibia 2 inches long, tarsus 1 inch long; maxillary 
palpi stout, long, and largely clavate; labrum very broad and obtuse; eyes 
broadly elliptic and very prominent; antenne light reddish-brown, annulate, 
74 inches long, distant at base; rings of horns smaller and finer than in 
the much smaller species (infra) H. spelunca: size, body without appendages 
4 inches long, and very bulky. 
Hab.—In a small low wood behind Paihia, Bay of Islands; 1839. | 
This species is bigger every way than H. hetaracantha, with which 
species, however, it has close affinity. It is also — more spiny, and 
differs greatly in colour, ete. It is a very fine and h me insect. ; 
It has a little semi-public history, which may be here very briefly — 
It has been seen and admired by Dr. Dieffenbach, Dr. Sir Joseph Hooker 
(and the other officers of that Antarctic expedition), Dr. Sinclair, Lny 
Franklin, the several early French and American naturalists who had 
Visited New Zealand, etc., etc. 
It was long supposed (from the publication of Dr. Dieffenbach’s work on 
New Zealand in 1843) to be identical with Deinacrida. heteracantha of that 
— (vol. ii., p. 180), and, if so, should have been the type (being the old 
Specimen) ; but a close examination of late years served to show 
their respective and great differences. This specimen remained packed up 
in the box in which it was brought « a of Islands, from 
1843 to 1864! It was, however, 
