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e. General color rufous or rufo-testaceous (British East 



Africa) rufescens (KirbjO • 



ee. General color greenish-yellow or yellowish-green. 



/. Moderately robust (West Africa) . . . .duria (Karsch). 



ff. Rather slender (East Africa) insipida (Karsch). 



dd. Antennae filiform, or with the basal joints but little flattened. 

 e. Antennal joints a little flattened at base. Body some- 

 what robust. Griseo-testaceous (British East Africa). 



elegans (Karny). 

 ee. Antenna filiform. Body slender. Flavo-testaceous (Su- 

 dan) pharaonis (Karny). 



10. Rodunia duria (Karsch). 



Duronia duria K.arsch, Stettin. Ent. Zeitschr., LVII, p. 252 (1906). 

 Rodunia duria Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., Ill, p. 140 (1910). 



Five males and three females of a small greenish grasshopper from 

 Batanga, are referred to Duronia duria Karsch. They were collected 

 by F. H. Hope, in April and May, 1914. C. M. Ace. No. 5293. 



1 1 . Rodunia pharaonis (Karny) ? 



Phlceoba pharaonis Karny, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien., Math. -Nat. Klasse, CXVI, 



pt. i, p. 103, pi. 3. fig- 52 (1907)- 

 Rodunia pharaonis Kirby, Syn. Cat. Crth., Ill, p. 140 (1910). 



A second species of the genus is represented by four males and the 

 same number of females, which were also taken by Hope at the same 

 locality as the preceding, from February to April, inclusive. 



While these specimens do not agree in every respect with the original 

 description of P. pharaonis, they approach it more closely than they 

 do any of the other described species. 



Genus Chirlsta Karsch. 

 Chirista Karsch, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., XXXVIII, pp. 54, 75 (1893); Kirby, 

 Syn. Cat. Orth., Ill, p. 142 (1910). 



Chirista, like the preceding genus, is made up of several allied species 

 which recall the American group Orphidiui. As suggested in connec- 

 tion with Rodunia these insects are no doubt true "grasshoppers," 

 and live among the grasses and other low-growing plants in meadows 

 and openings in the forests, or even in open or prairie country. 



12. Chirista compta Walker. 



Slenoholhrtis complus Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV, p. 762 (1870). 

 Duronia virgula Bolivar, An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., XIX, p. 310 (1890). For 

 further synonymy see Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., Ill, p. 142 (19 10). 



