NOTES OX AFRICAN ORTHOPTERA OF THE FAMILIES 

 l^LWTID.E AND PIIASMID.E IN THE UNITED STATES 

 NATIONAL AIUSEmi, ^YlTIl DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 

 SPECIES. 



By James A. G. Reiin, 



Of llic Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Tho following paper is based on a portion of a series of African 

 Orthoptera turned over to me for study several 3'ears ago by the 

 late Dr. W. II. Ashmead, assistant curator of insects in the United 

 States National j\Iuseuni. My delay in bringing out this report has 

 not been without its advantages, as the Berlin Museum recently 

 placed in my hands for study its entire unworked series of material 

 of the i)resent families from central Africa, thus enabling me to 

 secure a much more satisfactory knowledge of the subject. 



At a later date it is my intent to bring together all the records 

 which I have published relating to the series from Liberia and Luebo, 

 Kongo, regions of the greatest interest faunistically, but for the 

 present it seems best to make this report cover aU the African mate- 

 rial in the United States National Museum collection belonging to 

 the two groups here considered. 



For the opportunity to study this collection my thanks are due 

 tlie authorities of the National Museum. 



FamUy ]VLiNTIDyE. 



Siil>raiiiily ORTHODKRIlSr^zE. 

 Genus THEOPOMPA Stal. 



THEOPOMPA NEBULOSA Bolivar. 



1908. Theopompa nebulosa Bolivau, Mem. R. Soc. Espan. Hist. Xat.,vol. 1, 

 p. 458, pi. 11, fig. 2. [Kamerun.] 



Luebo, Kongo. (D. W. Snyder.) One female. 



This specimen fully agrees \nth the original description except 

 for the subconfluent character of the two proximal blackish macula- 

 tions on the internal face of the cephalic femora, the sidcus alone 

 dividing them. 



The range of the species is considerably extended by this record. 



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