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254 the tegmina simulate a leaf beginning to decay, the extremity and nervures being brown, the remaining parts yellowish green. The wings are pale brown and transparent, with transverse undulating dusky streaks, each having a large ocellated spot at the extremity, consisting of a black ground with two white crescents, the exterior edge reddish and surmounted by a black streak. The remarkable looking insects of this genus, which might at first sight be taken for Lepidoptera, are natives of Surinam and Guiana.

ANOSTOSTOMA AUSTRALASIA. XIV. figure referred to represents a very remarkable apterous insect of this family, from a drawing by Mr. Westwood, taken from the specimen in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. It is a native of New Holland, and was first described, a short time since, by Mr. Grey, in the Magazine of Natural History. It was brought from the interior, 300 miles up the country. It is almost entirely of a ferruginous colour, the abdomen variegated with yellow; legs brownish yellow; length, including the mandibles, two inches and a half. The head is very large; labrum prominent and crescent-shaped; ocelli three, not placed at the base of the ridge between the antennæ, (as described by Mr. Grey,) the anterior one being considerably in front of it, and the posterior pair at its