Descriptions of New or Little -known Orthoptera. 



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XlPHIDION PARVULUM, 11. Sp. 



(Text-fig. 8.) 



$ .- Allied to X. restiorum. Lighter in colour, and with the tegmina 

 slightly longer, since they reach the base of the third segment. The 

 main difference is, however, in the shape of the cerci, which are 

 patelliform, short, but more flattened outwardly and very slightly 

 dentate at the base, while the inner spine or process is long, very much 

 curved, and is set on the inner side of the base (fig. 8, view from 

 above) ; the supra-anal lamina does not project in the centre 

 Anterior tibiae with a double row of six spines. 



From above. 



From below. 



FIG. 8. Xiphidion parvulum. 



Length of body 10 mm.; of prouotum 2 mrn. ; of tegmiua 3 mm.; 

 of hind femur 5^ mm. 



Hob. Cape Province (Cape Town), J. C. Bridwell ; L. Periuguey. 



XIPHIDION BECHUANENSE, n. sp. 



? . Light straw-colour with a median bronze baud starting from the 

 point of the fastigium reaching the base of the pronotum, continued 

 on the median dorsal part of the abdomen right to the apex, and edged 

 on each side by a yellowish-white narrower band ; fastigium com- 

 pressed but blunt at apex ; antennae darker than the body or legs ; 

 tegmina reaching only the apical margin of the first abdominal 

 segment ; anal segment ampliate rounded laterally, sub-truncate at 

 apex and a little emarginate in the centre, cerci robust, short, curving 

 inwards, and truncate at apex ; the tooth of the right longer than that 

 of the left, both somewhat short ; sub-genital plate deeply arcuate 

 emarginate. Anterior tibiae with a double row of five spines. 



Length of body 12 mm.; of pronotum 2| mm.; of tegmina 2 mm.; 

 of hind femur and tibiae 11 mm. respectively. 



Hub. Bechuanaland, H. M. Oakley. 



