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diverging towards the face. Antennae, not longer tlian tlie bead and 
the thorax together. Prothorax with three slight keels; lateral 
keels interrupted and oblique ; hind border angular in the middle. 
Femora and four anterior tibia; with some black marks. Hind tibbe 
pale luteous, shorter than the hind femora. Wings much shorter 
than the abdomen. Forewings with some rows of indistinct brown 
dots. Length of the body eight lines.” 
Stenobothrus, Fisch. 
*S. viridipes, Walk. — -A medium-sized Grasshopper, having a 
light brown body and green legs. It ■ is abundant on the high 
central ridge and adjacent slopes, at altitudes of two to three 
thousand feet above the sea. Mr. Walker gives the following 
description of it : — “ Male testaceous. Plead slightly ascending ; 
front mostly or wholly black. Antennae black, as long as the body. 
Prothorax mostly overspread with black, this hue including some 
variable testaceous marks on each side ; lateral keels slightly inclined 
inward. Legs green ; tarsi tawny ; hind femora vivid green ; hind 
tibiae pilose, with black spines. Forewings cinereous. Length of 
the body six to six and a half lines. This and the following species 
are distinguished from the Stenobothri previously described by their 
long antennae.” 
*S. annulicornis, Walk. — One of the dark black-and-brown 
Grasshoppers which are common in the Island, and of which Mi-. 
Walker gives the following description : — “ Male black. Head and 
prothorax with a broad testaceous stripe on each side. Head with 
a transverse testaceous mark on the hind border above ; a fusiform 
furrow between the eyes ; front with a testaceous spot and with two 
anterior testaceous bands, the second rounded on the foreside and 
abbreviated. Antennae black, somewhat shorter tlian the body ; 
each joint with a testaceous band. Prothorax with some testaceous 
patches on each side, and with a testaceous dentate band on the 
hind border; lateral keels partly testaceous, slightly curved inward. 
Abdomen testaceous beneath. Four anterior femora with black dots. 
Hind femora with black patches on the outer side. Wings some- 
what shorter than the body. Fore wings blackish, this hue including 
several small testaceous marks ; a broad cinereous streak along tlie 
outer part of the costa ; a row of black dots in the disk. Length of 
the body nine lines.” 
