as all the remaining joints together; first joint of four hinder legs about as long as the terminal joint, the second and third being each about twice as long as the fourth, which is the shortest.
Dimensions.
| millim. | |
| Long. corporis | 100 |
| Long.„ antennarum | 18 |
| Long.„ capitis | 6 |
| Long.„ pronoti | 5 |
| Long.„ mesonoti | 22 |
| Long.„ metanoti, cum segmento medio | 17 |
| Long.„ segmenti medii | 4 |
| Long.„ segmenti„terminali | 9 |
| Long.„ femorum anticorum | 24 |
| Long.„ femorum„ mediorum | 19 |
| Long.„ femorum„ posteriorum | 22 |
| Long.„ tibiarum anticarum | 26 |
| Long.„ tibiarum„ mediarum | 15 |
| Long.„ tibiarum„ posteriarum | 22 |
In many particulars this species agrees with the description of Bacillus Buchholzi, Gerstaecker, from the Cameroons (Mitth. naturw. Ver. Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen, xiv. p. 99, 1883), but it is much larger, and the structure of the abdomen appears to be very dissimilar in the two insects.
Family Achetidæ.
Subfamily Gryllotalipinæ.
Gryllotalpa africana.
- Gryllotalpa africana, Palisot de Beauvois, Ins. Afr. Amér. p. 229, Orth. pl. iii, c. fig, 6 (1805?).
An abundant species throughout the warmer parts of the world.
Family Phasgonuridæ.
Subfamily Hetrodinæ.
Cosmoderus Kingsleyæ, sp. n.
Long. 21-25 millim.
Rufo-testaceous, abdomen inclining to cupreous, especially in the female; face yellowish, slightly varied with red, and with a black spot on each side at the base of the clypeus;
