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Show 76 PEOF. P. E. UHLER ENUMERATION OF THE [Jan. 15, highly polished, convex in the middle, transversely impressed at base, black with a yellow tip and a broad yellow band across the middle ; front yellow, oblique, convex, polished, separated from the clypeus by a deep suture, the clypeus short, tumidly convex, pale testaceous, the rostrum also testaceous, stout, reaching to the middle coxse. Pronotum hardly longer than the head, transverse, moderately convex, the lateral margins a little oblique, curved, the anterior margin bluntly curved and carried nearly half the length of the eyes into the base of the head; the colour black with a broad lunate yellow band behind the anterior submargin, the posterior margin feebly sinuated. Scutellum equilaterally triangular, subacuminate, bordered with yellow. Legs pale testaceous ; the spines, tip of tibia?, and end of tarsi brown. Wing-covers with three long yellow stripes, besides a cuneiform spot near the tip, outside of which is a transverse curved large spot, and the superior apex broadly and obliquely covered with yellow, which spreads from the costal area; the costal margin reddish ; veins slender, forming few and large areoles near the tip. Abdomen strongly tapering ; tergum bright red, sometimes fulvous at tip ; the last ventral segment hardly longer than the preceding one, hardly sinuated; inferior genital valves uniting to form a long cornute appendage, coarsely punctate, set with stiff bristles, and curved down on the acute tip. Length to end of abdomen 5i-6 m m . ; width of pronotum mm. Six specimens of this showy species were secured near Kingstown and on both sides of the island. The specific name was suggested by the rod-like pack of stripes on the wing-covers. These organs are blunter than in the preceding species, and the wings are smoky brownish, paler on the anterior margin, and the veins are darker. TETTIGONIA (DIEDEOCEPHALA) SAGITTIFEBA, sp. nov. Form of D. jlaviceps, Riley, sage-green above, pale greenish yellow beneath. Vertex with the sides a little rounded, the apex triangular, with the immediate tip a very little blunt; colour pale orange, with an irregular whitish spot around the black ocelli connected with an oblique stripe running forward to meet its fellow at the apex of the arrow-shaped black spot on the tip of vertex ; base with a pair of small white spots on the middle, space near the antero-lateral border with three small spots, and the supra-antennal plate also white ; front oblique and convex, dusky, dotted with pale yellow, the very summit smooth whitish; clypeus small, convex, pale testaceous ; the rostrum reaching to the middle coxa? brown at tip. Pronotum shorter than wide, bean-shaped, a broad lobate pale spot in front on each side, connected in the middle by a band of the same colour, and carrying a line of dark brown dots near the anterior border, the posterior border a little emarginate in the middle ; the surface closely rugulose. Scutellum yellow with a black spot at each basal angle, and sometimes two minute |
