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doubt belongs to the same species, as also in all probability do the specimens 

 from New Granada named Gh. strumaria by Stal. 



Eeemophila aeabica. 

 Raussure, Mel. Orthopt. 3 me fasc. Suppl. 1871, p. 378, ? , from Djeddah. 



For the first specimen of an Eremophila from the desert country 

 on the north-western frontier of India, I am indebted to Mr. Francis 

 Fedden, of the Geological Survey, who obtained it in Western Sind. It is a 

 female, and it differs from de Saussure's description of the above species 

 only in having five instead of four spines on the outer edge of the fore 

 tibisB. I have recently received from Mr. Murray of the Karachi Museum 

 three females and two males of the same species, which exhibit a consider- 

 able amount of variation in size, in the roughness of the integument, and 

 in the number of spines on the outer edge of the fore tibiae, two specimens 

 having only four and another only three developed on one tibia but the 

 usual number on the other in each case. A male taken some years ago in 

 the Suliman Eange, and presented to me with some other insects, by 

 Professor V. Ball, differs from the Sind specimens in having the band on 

 the underside of the tegmina broader and 14 teeth instead of 13 on the 

 inner side of the fore tibiae. 



The four posterior legs, of which de Saussure makes no mention in his 

 description, and which may have been wanting in his type specimen, are 

 all annulated with brown and roughened with spiniform granules on tho 

 upperside in the Indian specimens. 



No species of this remarkable desert genus has before been recorded 

 from any place further to the eastward than Djeddah in Arabia. 



Taeachodes insidiator, n. sp. 



<?. Body and appendages brown of the colour of a dead and decayed 

 leaf. Antennae rather coarsely setaceous. Pronotum with a polished 

 conical spine on each side at the junction of the anterior with the lateral 

 margin, which is obsoletely denticulated as far back as the level of the 

 supracoxal groove. 



Organs of flight extending by about 1/6 of their length beyond the 

 extremity of the abdomen, not quite perfectly hyaline, being just per- 

 ceptibly milky, with the veins and veinlets horn-coloured, short-streaked or 

 annulated with darker in the anterior area of both pairs, though much less 

 distinctly so in the wings than in the tegmina, the latter semiopaque 

 horny anteriorly, as also are the former in a less degree ; the stigma of 

 the latter long and linear, pale whity-brown, almost colourless. 



Legs obsoletely and rarely punctated and mottled with darker, and 

 only moderately pubescent. The anterior ones marked with darker-brown 

 (? red in the living insect) on the inner surface, the smooth-crested coxa 



