1875.] 457 [Scudder. 



11. Stalia foliata. (Figs 3-5.) Obscure yellowish-brown, the 

 antennas beyond the base blackish, the foliations of the legs, the teg- 

 mina and portions of the wings exposed when at rest, of the colour of 

 a dried leaf; lower edge of the pronotum and sides of the meso- and 

 metathorax yellowish; all the femora, excepting the expansions 

 alluded to, brownish-yellow dotted with brown ; the middle smaller 

 portion of the fore and middle tibia? paler than the rest of the joint; 

 tarsi dusky; all the spines black-tipped; under surface and proster- 

 nal thorns yellowish ; wings surpassing the tegmina by four millime- 

 tres, the parts not exposed deep black. Abdomen blackish; ovipos- 

 itor not half the length of the abdomen, profusely rugulose, dark 

 yellowish-brown. 



Length of body, 55.5 mm. ; of tegmina, 35.5 mm. ; of hind femora, 

 44.5 mm.; of hind tibiae, 53.5 mm.; of ovipositor, 14.5 mm.; greatest 

 breadth of ovipositor, 5.75 mm.; of fore femoral foliation, 8.5 mm.; 

 of fore tibial foliation, 5.5 mm. 1 ?, Old Calabar; received from 

 Andrew Murray, Esq. 



Lirometopum {Xipuq, [i(twtzov) nov. gen. 



Body exceedingly stout and heavy. Head large and very short, the 

 entire front completely appressed, declivant, forming less than a right 

 angle with the sides and summit of the head, the trituberculate vertex, 

 the basal antennal joints, eyes and tubercles below them all forming 

 a part of the separating ridge ; vertex with a pair of blunt lateral 

 basal tubercles larger than itself, each much larger than and sur- 

 passing the basal antennal joint, the minute bidentate apex of the 

 vertex lying between and not surpassing them; the globose prominent 

 eyes are thus separated by a space equal to half the entire breadth of 

 the expanded front, which is itself broader than the pronotum ; an- 

 tennas slender, longer than the body ; mandibles compressed in front 

 with sharp lateral edges. Prosternum unarmed ; pronotum well 

 arched transversely without lateral carinas, the front edge broadly 

 convex, the angle of the posterior humeral sinus large, the posterior 

 border of the upper surface almost straight; legs short, stout, thick ; 

 all the femora spined beneath, the fore and middle femora of about 

 equal length; the third tarsal joint prominently bilobed, each lobe 

 produced apically to a sharp angle ; tegmina longer than the body, 

 ovate lanceolate, compact ; wings not surpassing the tegmina. Ovi- 

 positor stout, moderately broad, long and straight. 



