150 C/mstmas Island. 



a label : ' Christmas Island, October 3. Colour grass-green.' The 

 colour is now much mixed with yellow. 



'' Allied to P.pectinata, Guer., but considerably smaller than any 

 of our specimens of that species." 



One specimen, East Coast, September, 1897, (Andrews.) 



Family PHA]S"EIiOPTERID^. 



20. Psyra pomona, sp.n. 



Long. corp. (absque ovip.) 26 mm.; cum ovip. 35 mm.; exp. 

 tegm. 93 mm. ; lat. tegm. 1 1 mm. 



Female. — Body testaceous, more or less tinged with green (doubt- 

 less greener when alive) ; head whitish, almost ivory-white under the 

 eyes and on the labrum ; last joint of palpi green; antennae green, 

 becoming brown towards the extremity ; scape testaceous. Thorax 

 with the hinder third dark green, edged behind by a lighter carina, 

 and in front, in the middle, somewhat blackish. Ovipositor green, 

 about twice as long as the thorax, upcurved, and reddish brown 

 on the upper and lower edges, towards the extremity, which are 

 crenulated. Legs pubescent, with slender green spines, tipped 

 with blackish. Tegmina unicolorous, bright apple -green; wings 

 greenish hyaline, with green nervures, and tipped with green. 



Two females came to lamp at night ; Elying Fish Cove. 



Allied to P. emis, De Haan, but the antennae are not banded, 

 the tegmina are not spotted, and there are no dark markings on the 

 legs, except that there is a darker green spot at the base of the 

 front tibiae. It is evident that Brunner's descriptions of the species, 

 of this genus are taken from more or less discoloured specimens. 



Family LOCUSTID^. 



21. Oxya orientalis. 

 (PL XIII, Fig. 1, dark form ; PI. XIV, Fig. 2, typical form.) 



Frimma{?) orientalis, Kirb. : P.Z.S., 1888, p. 549. 



" (J Exp. al. 44 mm. ; long. corp. 26 mm. 



** Grass-green; antennae about twice as long as the head and 

 pronotum, yellowish (faded?), the tips brownish; tips of mandibles 

 and palpi dark green ; vertex with four dusky lines approximating 

 in front ; the inner ones much nearer together than the space 

 between these and the others, the transverse grooves on the pro- 

 notum black, the first shorter than the others, and ending in a dusky 

 spot on each side, behind which is another dusky spot (between 

 the second and third grooves) ; the second groove is angulated 

 forwards at its extremities, ending in blackish spots ; before the 

 first groove runs a transverse reddish line, only distinct on the 



