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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 (stemites) of abdomen, these latter are 

 reddish ; prothorax 3 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 ; striae pinkish-brown ; 2 

 small spines at lower ends of tibiae ; tarsi very pubescent, tibiae slightly so, 

 also the anterior femora between spines ; ungues large, divergent, glabrous, 

 piceous : anterior pair, femora much shorter than tibiae, 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 coxae ; coxae 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. 



A 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- vitae (Thuja occidentalis), 

 which she greedily ate, gnawing it off all round very cleanly. The faeces 

 were plentiful and regularly formed in small narrow cylindrical brownish 

 roughish rolls, 1^- 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, 



