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Christmas Island^ 



Twenty-three species, obtained by Mr. Andrews, are enumerated 

 in the following list, of wMch. seven are described as new. Of the 

 remaining species, at least seven appear to be peculiar to the island. 

 I have reprinted the descriptions of these from my previous paper. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



JFOEFICULID^. 



Lahidura, Leach. 



nigricornis, Kirb. 

 Tlatylahia, Dohrn. 



dimidiata, Dohrn. 

 jinisolahis, Fieb. 



stali, Dohrn. 

 Labia, Leach. 



Murrayi, sp.n. 



incerta, sp.n. 



indistincta, sp.n, 



subarmata, sp.n. 

 Anechura, Scudd. 



sp. 



^LATTID^. 



Temnopteryx, Brunn. 



fulva, Brunn. 

 Phyllodromia, Serv. 



supellectilium, Serv. 

 Feriplanata, Burm. 



americana, L. 

 Leucophcea, Brunn. 



surinamensis, L. 

 Panesthia, Serv. 



javanica, Serv. 



jMantid^. 



Sierodula, Burm. 

 dispar, sp.n. 



Phasmid^. 



CUtumnus, Stal. 

 stilpnoides, Kirb. 



Geyllii)^. 



Ectadoderus, Guer. 

 flavipalpis, sp.n. 



Gryllacrid^. 



Gryllacris, Serv. 

 rufovaria, Kirb. 



CONOCEPHALTD^. 



Pseudorhynchus, Serv. 

 lessonii, Serv. 



LlSTEOCELID^. 



Phisis, Stal. 

 luteri, Kirb. 



Phaneropterid^ . 

 Psyra, Stal. 

 pomona, sp.n. 



LOCUSTID^. 



Oxya, Serv. 



orientalis, Kirb. 

 Cyrtacanthacris, Walk. 



dtsparilis, Kirb. 

 Epacromia, Fisch. 



rufostriata, Kirb. 



Family POBFICrLID^. 



1. Labidura nigricornis, Kirb. : P.Z.S., 1888, p. 546. 

 (PL XII, Pig. 2 S, Fig. 3 ?.) 



"Long. Corp. 18-20 mm. 



"Black, head smooth, not much raised, broad behind, and narrowed 

 and enlarged in front ; lower mouth-parts sometimes testaceous ; 

 antennae seventeen -jointed, sometimes inclined to pitchy beneath, 

 but with none of the joints white or yellow ; pronotum smooth in 



