This specimen differs from the others, according to Burr, in the slight development of the keels on the penultimate. The female differs from the male in the flight organs, but moderately above the tip of the abdomen. The female's tegmins are very round concave, but the male's are rounded.
This one is in very poor condition, the antennae and front and middle legs are missing, and the tip of the abdomen is partially broken off. Tegmina exceeding tip of abdomen; discoid sectors four or five in number and longitudinal; costal veins not clavate, about ten and very long. Wings with a very small triangular apical area; the ulnar vein is branched, all branches are directed towards the tip of the wing.
Dorsal wings very little beyond tips of tegmina; ulnar vein with two branches, both directed to tip of wing; costal veins nine or ten and barely clavate.
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Two females, Tjibodas, Mount Gede, September (4,000 feet elevation); two females, one female nymph, same locality, April 20, alti-. The two specimens recorded here agree very well with published descriptions except that the color appears to be more uniformly brownish. The occurrence of regenerated antennae in these long-horned insects, which are less than the natural length of these organs, together with the very general imperfect condition of the antennae, makes the differentiation of the subfamily Pachymorphinae (=Clitumninae of Brunner and Redtenbacher) very difficult Phasma- { Bacteria. ) nematodes DeHaan, Temminck, Verhandel., Orth., 1842, p.
This specimen, which runs out to the above species at Redtenbacher's key, agrees very well with the description except that the antennae are not darker than the rest of the colour. One of the adult females recorded above has the expansion of the front femur with the entire edges, mostly orally, a variation against gelonus Gray; otherwise it seems typical of pulchrifolium. Head with a pair of sharp spines at the apex between the eyes connected by a slightly elevated ridge; on the back, outermost part of the dorsal surface of the head, there is a transverse row of four tubercles, the middle two the larger and spread over the sides of the head.
Antennae extending posteriorly to about the extremity of the second segment of the abdomen and con-. 34;20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM * vol.71 consisting of about thirty distinct segments, most of which are oblong. Pronotum above moderately furnished with rather large but low tubercles; meso- and metanotum nearly smooth, the former with a few shallowly spreading tubercles; middle segment poorly defined, about one-third as long as metatarsal.
Legs rather short, especially the basally curved anterior femora which are not longer than the mesothorax; the legs are unarmed, except that the femora have a pair of sharp triangular teeth near the apex on the posterior margin below; tibiae about equal to their respective femora except the anteriorones which are a little longer; the anterior femora are very slightly wavy dorsally. Abdomen moderately slender, the basal four segments not of equal length, each about three times as long as wide; fifth segment bit. Second segment of abdomen about one and a half times as long as wide; ninth segment broadly and shortly notched apically, the lateral angles triangular and projecting posteriorly; supra-anal plate distinct, triangular, the tip pointed and the dorsal surface mesially raised to a rather high longitudinal carina; opercuUmi a little.
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Kirby placed Bolivar's saginatus as a synonym of this species, in which he was apparently justified, the only tangible difference apparent between these Javanese specimens and those deter-. A very heavy form apparently related to Hancock's rohustus, but having the hind metatarsus considerably longer than the apical segment of the tarsus, in this respect agreeing with BoUvar's macropterous miliarius, is. The present specimens have the posterior ocellus situated at a point almost or quite below the middle of the eyes, not flush with the antero-ventral border of the eyes as stated in the description of parvus, thus showing a specific difference.
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The lanceolate supra-anal plate of the immature forms of this species is indeed a remarkable development.
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Nine male and twenty-three female adults and one male and four female nymphs, then nymphs and seven of the adults from Buitenzorg. The valves of the ovipositor are fairly slender and the edges have some dull serrations. One male and two females from the above lot from Buitenzorg were collected in spirits and were therefore shrunken and lost.
This series, though of rather miiform size, varies greatly in colour; one extremity uniformly wood-brown, the other with a conspicuous yellowish or yellow-green line extending from the fastigium of the vertex along the whole length of the pronotal disc and along the anal region of the tegmina almost to the tip. The collection contains a single specimen of Burmeister's typical nigricornis, a male taken in Singapore. All these specimens have red colored underwings, except the male from Soekaboemi, which has translucent to the base; this person.
Apart from colour, there is definite structural variation visible in material referred to this species, such as the shape of the prosternal spine, the cerci of the males, the supra-anal plate of the same sex, etc. Thirteen males, eight females, Buitenzorg in March; four males, four females, Mount Salak; one male, Pelaboean Ratoe. However, some adult-looking specimens are definitely smaller than the size usually given for this species.
One male and three females from Mount Salak, undated, and two females from Buitenzorg in March and April.
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This differs mainly from the typical munda from the Moluccas in that the antennae with the widely spaced black bands are present only on the apical half of their length instead of their entire length, and in having the posterior edge of the pronotal disc distinctly marginalized, a condition barely shown in typical form. the vitreous oval of the tegmina auditory organ is also slightly less elongated in the Javan form. The type of Lesina Walker is that author's type lutescens;. type of this species was randomly examined a few years ago in However, there is no indication of such immaturity. is to be found in his description, and this is not a unique instance of this kind of deceptive element in the works of that most careless writer.
According to the rules of nomenclature, specifically covered by paragraph 96 of the Entomological Code and opinion 65 of the International Commission on Nomenclature, this species should be retained as a genotype regardless of the erroneous designation. Thus the species listed by Kirby'^ in the genus Cleandrus will be transferred to Pseudopkyllus, and for the species Hsted by him '* . under Pseudophyllus the genus Chloracris of Pictet and Saussure is revived. Two of these females are what can be considered typical forms, with a tegmina of only 25 mm. wide in the middle, the others have a significantly wider tegmina, 30 in the male and 35 in the female.
Four females and two female nymphs from Buitenzorg in March and one female from Berg Salak, 15 May. The basal folds of the ovipositor are black on their dorsal fourth, the only character which conflicts with Brunner's description of venosa, in this particular tendency towards emarginata and signata, with whose descriptions it however agrees no better than with that of venosa not. De Haan of East India, deriving the recognition of errors in the habitat of cornea.
In view of the above facts, Dohrn places the genus Stihara of Brunner as a synonym of Sympaestria, and describes one new species, longipes from Java. The oviduct is strongly bent upwards and the dorsal margin is finely toothed on the parietal half or slightly more so and for a much shorter distance on the lower margin; jagged parts of the edges are darker than the rest of the surface. There is apparently an error in Brunners original measurements of the male, as he gives a length of pronotum of only 9 mm.
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The more robust form, the more pubescent body and femurs and the greater number of spines on the posterior tibiae lead to the determination of these specimens to pulvillatus instead of angustus. A female and two nymphs from Depok in June; a female from Pelaboean Ratoe undated; a nymph of the Megamendg Mountains (elevation 4,800 feet). These specimens are somewhat darker than typical, but evidently represent one of the many color phases in which this variable species is known to occur.
In this long-winged specimen the tegmina is definitely longer than the macropterous specimens described by Bolivar, namely 6 mm.
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Fully developed flight organs; tegmina exceeding abdomen but falling somewhat short of tip of hind thigh, generally yellow-brown, marked dorsally by two black triangular spots and several short transverse bars of same color and costal area stuffed with fusco; caudal wings, colored around tegmina, folded extensions show dark spots, costal area dark. The unarmed hind tibiae and the shape of the pronotum of this remarkable cricket are apparently as conspicuous in the nymph as in the adult. The extremely long and slender hind metatarsus, which is about three times longer than the combined length of the other two tarsal segments, is a prominent feature of this small nymph.
Description, female (same unlinoivn).— Antennae yellowish, basal. darker, second segment black; the front part of the head is thin, the eyes are light and the nape and the rest of the head are yellow. The abdomen is black, except for the cerci, subgenital plate and part of the anterior abdominal segment, which are yellow; ovipositor rather thin, bent strongly upwards and yellowish basally, slightly darker at apex. Measurements.—Length, body without ovipositor, 5 mm; pro-notum, 9mm.; femur, 3mm.; posterior femora, 5 mm.; ovipositor, 2 mm.
AET.3 ORTHITOPTEROID INSECTS FROM JAVA CAUDELT^ 41 pronotum uniformly black on both disc and lateral lobes; this-. It is likely that one or both of the forms described above are merely color phases of other species. The most obvious difference between this variety and the typical ritsemae is the somewhat broader shape and the very indistinct maculation of the teg-.
