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Costa pale ; cubitus faintly greenish ; stigma pale, dusky medianly, margin darker. 

 The abdomen, in addition to the dorsal markings, has a lateral row of 6 dusky spots, 

 4 in front of and 1 at base of and 1 behind the cornicles." — {F. G. Willcocks). 



Colour of spirit specimens pale yellowish to greyish brown with dark markings. 

 Head broad and very large, flattened in front, with two small median prominences 

 and shghtly raised against the base of the antennae ; sides long, straight, shghtly 



Fig. 27. SaltusapJds scirpus, sp. ii., alate $; 

 Bj cornicle ; C, body hairs. 



diverging, with a few sickle-shaped thick hairs. Eyes large and prominent, placed 

 far back. Pro thorax pale, broad ; mesothorax dark brown, longer than the pro- 

 thorax ; meta thorax brown, shorter than the two former segments. Abdomen 

 somewhat pointed, about the width of the thorax, with small dark lateral spots and 



Fig. 28. SaltusapTiis scirpus, 



sp. n. ; cephalic and pronotal 



markings ; (a) side view of 



head. 



pale brown transverse bars ; two near, but in front of, the cornicles. Cornicles 

 small and dark, cup-shaped and ornamented with minute Hues of specks. Legs 

 rather short, pale, darkened at the apices of the femora and tibiae, and with dark 

 tarsi ; the fore and mid femora thick ; the second pair of legs far behind the first ; 



