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sides. Abdomen blackish above, green on the sides and beneath ; 

 a large dark-green spot beneath, towards the extremity of the 

 eighth segment. Tegmina green, with many of the longitudinal 

 nervures yellowish; the intermediate spaces inclining to hyaline 

 beyond the middle. Wings smoky hyaline, with brown nervures ; 

 costal nervure yellow, and the nervures at the base and along the 

 inner margin grass-green. Spines short, tipped with black, as 

 well as the claws." 



" Flew into light in tent (October 9th)." (Lister.) 

 Seven specimens : from Flying Fish Cove, October, 1897, and 

 February, 1898 ; and East Coast, January, 1897. Common on 

 herbage, especially near coast. The same remark applies to the 

 two following species. (Andrews.) 



These specimens apparently represent a duller form of the species 

 than the type. Mr. Andrews informs me that they were brownish 

 green when alive ; they are now testaceous brown, with only the 

 tips of the spines of the hind tibiee black. The two females are 

 larger and darker than the males, expanding 55-60 mm. They 

 have some obscure brown markings on the back of the thorax, and 

 the middle of the tegmina is longitudinally varied with light brown 

 and yellowish for the basal third, and with light brown and pale 

 testaceous beyond. The abdomen is black at the base for two- 

 thirds of its length, and the hind femora are marked with two 

 large brown patches, interrupted by the striae on the outside, one 

 near the middle, and the other towards the extremity. 



22. Cyrtacanthacris disparilis. 



Cyrtacanthacris disparilis^ Kirb. : P.Z. S., 1888, p. 549. 

 C.fusilinea, Kirb. {nee Wlk.), I.e., 1888. 



* ' Exp. al. ^ 90 mm. ,5115 mm. ; long. corp. (^54 mm. , ^ ^^ i^°i- 

 '■^ Male. — Head and body yellow, inclining to reddish above; 

 antennae with the first two joints yellow, the remainder black 

 above, beneath pitchy or yellowish ; tegmina longer than the 

 abdomen, yellow ; the longitudinal veins darker ; towards the tip 

 the membrane becomes nearly hyaline, and many of the nervures 

 are brown. Wings smoky hyaline, the nervures towards the base 

 and costa yellow, the remainder brown ; the nervures immediately 

 at the base incline to reddish. Legs yellow, darker above ; tarsi 

 inclining to reddish, the joints sometimes marked with green; 

 claws black at the tips ; hind femora with three carinae above, 

 with short and distant serrations; these and the lower lateral 

 carina are irregularly marked with black ; the intermediate space 

 above is slightly reddish, more so at two points than in others, 

 which gives the appearance of two interrupted lines. Sutures of 

 the knee-joint black. Hind tibiae with a green spot at the base 

 above, otherwise dull green ; the under-surface yellow. Spines 

 yellow, tipped with black ; hind tarsi yellowish or reddish. 



