II. ORTHOPTERA FROM AFRICA, BEING A REPORT 



UPON SOME SALTATORIA MAINLY FROM 



CAMEROON CONTAINED IN THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



By Lawrence Bruner. 



The present article is based on two major and two or three minor 

 collections and odd specimens of orthopteroid insects which have 

 come into the possession of the Carnegie Museum during the past four 

 or five years. There are, all told, three hundred and eighty-two 

 specimens.* The species are divided among the suborders as follows: 

 Locnstoidea, fortj-eight; Achetoidea, sixteen; and Tcttigonoidea, 

 forty-one; or approximately one hundred and five. Nine of these 

 species appear to be new, and are thus characterized in this paper, 

 while "a few of the Achetoidea have been reserved for further study. 



While the Orthoptera, as well as several other groups of insects, 

 occurring in the general region, from which most of the material now 

 being studied has come, have been quite extensively collected and 

 worked over by entomologists, so far as certain isolated localities are 

 concerned, no doubt there remain many other species, both common 

 and rare, to be added. In fact, it is the opinion of the writer that 

 tropical Africa as a whole is practically terra incognita, so far as its 

 insect-fauna is concerned. 



Family TETRIGID.^. 



The grouse-locusts comprise a very interesting group, and are widely 

 distributed over the surface of the earth. Of course they are most 

 numerously represented in the warmer and more humid regions, where 

 they abound in forests, jungles, swamps, or mountain slopes; in open 



* Note: It is proper to observe that not all of the representatives of certain of 

 the commoner species of African Saltatorial Orthoptera were sent to Dr. Bruner, 

 at the time the insects were submitted to him for study. In some cases where 

 the species was represented by scores of specimens it was thought hardly worth 

 while to burden him with the care of all of them. — VV. J. Holland. 



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