912 INSECTA. 



Order OETHOPTEEA. 



Bacteria, sp. ? 



Mantis, sp. ? 

 Mantis, sp. ? 



-Familj—MANTIBJ^. 



¥simi\Y—GBYLLIDJb\ 



Gryllotalpa vuLaARis, Geoffr., Ins. Par., i, p. 387, pi. vii, fig. 1. 

 Gryllus consimilis. Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., i, p. 41. 



Ysimilj—LOCUSTID^. 

 Phaneroptera diversa, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., ii, p. 346. 



¥iimi\j-ACBIDIII^. 



Pyrgomorpha crenulata, Pabr., Ent. Syst., ii, p. 28 ; Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt., 

 B. M., iii, p. 497. 



Opomala tenebrosa. Walker. 



Opomala tenebrosa, Walker, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 246. 



Female. — Piceous or ferruginous, slender, slightly compressed. Head and pro- 

 thorax with a very slight middle keel, and with a few very slight longitudinal ridges. 

 Tip of the vertex flat, short-conical ; front tawny, oblique, speckled with black 

 with four well-defined diverging keels ; inner keels united near the tip of the vertex. 

 Antennae flat, lanceolate, about twice the length of the head. Pro thorax with a 

 very slight keel on each side ; fore border hardly rounded ; hind border slightly 

 rounded. Hind femora as long as the abdomen. Hind tibise a little shorter than 

 the hind femora ; spines stout, of equal size. Pore-wings with irregular and very 

 minute areolets ; those towards the tips larger, elongated, and regular. Hind- wings 

 cinereous hyaline, blackish at the tips ; veins black, pale green or pale yellow at the 

 base and along the interior border. 



Length of the body 14 lines ; expansion of the fore- wings 24 lines. 



Phymateus miliaris, Linn., S. N., ii, p. 700; Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt., B M 

 iii, p. 539. 



Cyrtacanthacris ferrina. Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt., B. M., iii, p. 568. 



