Orthoptera. 149 



Taken on leaves on a tall tree-top, October 9tli (Lister) ; Forest, 

 East Coast, September, 1897. 



Three specimens, a male and two females. (Andrews.) 

 Also two larval forms, from Plying Eisb Cove, August, 1897. 

 They are in spirit, and the present colours are as follows : — The 

 larger specimen has the head and thorax light rufo - testaceous 

 ■above, with the lower mouth-parts, and three spots between the 

 eyes, whitish ; of these, the middle spot is rather long, and is 

 deeply concave above, ending in a point on each side ; the lateral 

 spots are nearly round, and each contains two black dots. The 

 short wing-cases are black, and the back of the abdomen dark 

 reddish-brown ; the under-surface of the body and legs are white, 

 the coxae and trochanters being marked with pale reddish ; the 

 knees (except for a white spot on the hind tibiae just in the joint) 

 and the spines are black ; the four front tibiae and their spines are 

 reddish brown. The smaller specimen differs in being black above, 

 except the three spots and the labrum and labium, which are 

 white. In both specimens the middle of the abdomen is banded 

 with black beneath. 



Family COjSTOCEPHALID^. 

 18. Pseudorhynchus lessonii. 



-Fseudorhynchus lessonii, Serv. : Ins. Orth., p. 511 (1839). 

 Conocephalus alienuSy Wlk. : Cat. Derm. Salt., ii, p. 324, n. 14 (1869). 



Flying Fish Cove, August, 1897. 



Three male specimens. Originally described from Java. 



Family LISTROCELID^. 

 19. Phisis listeri. (PL XIII, Fig. 6.) 



Thuis listeri, Kirb. : P.Z.S., 1888, p. 547. 



"Long. Corp. 15mm. 



" Male. — Pale green ; head and pronotum darker, with two 

 conspicuous yellow lines, slightly convergent, running from the 

 back of the eyes to the base of the pronotum ; suture of the 

 tegmina yellowish, and the antennae, legs, and under-surface of 

 body likewise inclining to yellow; four front femora and tibise 

 armed with long slender spines ; hind femora considerably 

 thickened before the middle ; hind femora and tibiae with very 

 numerous short spines. 



** Three specimens, two immature (Lister). The adult specimen 

 above described shows only three spines on the intermediate 

 femora, but one of the others has four, showing that this is not 

 a constant character. One of the immature specimens bears 



