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CATALOGUE OF ORTHOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



behind the eyes. The antennae are rather thick, with 

 about fifty-six short joints. The mesothorax is long, with 

 about a dozen small black conical spines disposed in irre- 

 gular rows along two-thirds of the anferior length. The 

 tegmina are elongate ovate, not strongly angulated before 

 the middle ; they are of an elegant yellow colour, with five 

 bright green longitudinal streaks along the chief veins. 

 The wings are opake white, with a delicate pinkish tint, 

 especially towards the anal margin ; the longitudinal veins 

 almost colourless ; the costal area is coloured in the same 

 manner as the tegmina, the chief vein being furcate at the 

 distance of about half an inch from the base. The abdo- 

 men is very long and cylindrical, slightly widened at the 

 base ; the three terminal segments widened, the extremity 

 rather angularly emarginate in the middle ; the three ter- 

 minal ventral segments moderately swollen, not extending 

 beyond the eighth dorsal segment ; the anal styles extend- 

 ing backwards, and forming a small forceps. The legs are 

 short and rather thick, especially the four posterior femora, 

 which are spined beneath ; the basal joint of the tarsi is 

 about as long as the three following joints. 



Plate XVIII. Fig. 6. The male, of the natural size. 6 a. 

 The front part of the body seen sideways. 6 b. The termi- 

 nal segments of the body seen sideways. 



2. (219.) Haplopus Cytherea, Westw. 

 Plate XVIII. fig. 5, male. 



Valde elongatus, cylindricus, lutescens ; capite valde 

 convexo, vertice bispinoso (spina recta majori) ; prothorace 

 bi-, mesothoraee 6-7-spinoso ; tegminibus fuscis albido ma- 

 culatis ; alis puniceo-albis, venis omnibus fuscis, area costali 

 fusca albido maculata, basi nigra ; pedibus viridibus ; fe- 

 moribus quatuor posticis subtus spinosis (mas). 



Long. corp. unc. 4 ; cap. lin. 2| ; anten. unc. 21 ; proth. 

 lin. 2 ; mesoth. lin. 9 ; metath. lin. 7 ; abdom. lin. 22 + 

 lin. 6 = lin. 28 ; tegm. lin. 6 ; alar, expans. unc. 4^. 



Ilab. In insula " St. Domingo," Haiti. In Mus. Saun- 

 ders et Hopeiano Oxoniae (olim nostr.). 



This species is very closely allied to H. Evadne, but is 

 at ouce distinguished by its longer limbs, narrower wings, 

 and peculiar coloration. The head is very convex, and 

 armed on the top of the crown with two acute conical points, 

 black at the tip, the right one being the larger ; the sides 

 of the head are whitish. The antennae are very long, 

 rather thick, composed of about sixty short joints. The 

 prothorax is armed with two small spines near its anterior 

 margin. The mesothorax is slender and cylindrical, armed 

 with six or seven spines placed in two rows irregularly. The 

 tegmina are elongate ovate, brown, glossy, with a strongly 



raised conical tubercle near the base ; the outer margin and 

 two elongated patches beyond the middle are white. The 

 wings are opake white, slightly tinged throughout with 

 pink, the whole of the veins being dusky coloured ; the 

 costal area is pale brown, with a number of small elongated 

 whitish patches; the base is black. The mesosternum is 

 armed with six small spines arranged in two longitudinal 

 series, and the metasternum with two pairs of similar but 

 rather larger spines ; the sides of the latter are marked with 

 a narrow fulvous stripe. The abdomen is long, slender and 

 cylindrical ; the terminal segments white at the sides, and 

 scarcely dilated ; the three ventral segments short, not ex- 

 tending to the extremity of the eighth dorsal segment, and 

 but little swollen, and the anal styles are rather thick and 

 obtuse at the tips. The coxae of all the legs are fulvous, 

 the legs themselves green, moderately long and slender, 

 with the four posterior femora armed beneath with a few 

 small spines. 



Plate XVIII. Fig. 5. The male, of the natural size. 5 a. 

 The anterior part of the body seen sideways. 5 b. The ter- 

 minal segments seen sideways. 



3. (220.) Haplopus Jamaicensis. 



Elongatus, gracilis, viridis ; tegminibus viridi-striatis, 

 margine antico flavo ; antennis fuscis ; mesothoraee antice 

 bispinoso, spinis saepe bifidis, nigris ; alis pallide puniceis, 

 area costali viridi ; pedibus viridibus, articulationibus flaves- 

 centibus ; femoribus spinosis, spinis anticorum minoribus 

 (mas). 



Long. corp. unc. 3J ; expans. alar. unc. 3, lin. 7. 



Mantis Jamaicensis, Drury, Exot. Ins. ii. pi. 49. f. 1. 



Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii. p. 15; Ent. Syst. Suppl. 

 p. 188 (Phasma J.) (exclus. Syn. Stoll, ii. f. 20, 21, 

 = Cyph. viridana). 

 Olivier, Enc. Meth. vii. 634 (Mantis J.). 

 Lepeletier et Serv. Enc. Mith. x. p. 101 (Phasma J.) ; 



ibid. p. 445 (Cyphocrana J.). 

 Gray, Syn. Phasm. p. 38 (Platycrana J.). 

 Phasma edule, var. /3, pars, Lichtenstein, Linn. Tr. vi. 13. 

 Hub. In India occidentali; Jamaica. Mus. Hopeiano 

 Oxoniae et B.M. 



Neither Drury nor Fabricius mention the two mesotho- 

 racic spines (indeed Fabricius says that the character of 

 the thorax constitutes the chief difference between this spe- 

 cies and H. bispinosus). Drury' s figure, however, clearly 

 exhibits the two erect black spines in front of the meso- 

 thorax. According to his figure, the head is also desti- 

 tute of the two tubercles, which are likewise unnoticed by 

 Fabricius, who expressly describes them in H. bispinosus. 

 Another character apparently distinguishing H. Jamaicensis 

 from the latter species, are the green stripes of the teg- 



