Bruner: Orthoptera from Africa. 123 



eighty species now being recognized. These are found scattered in 

 various regions of the Earth. They are, for the most part, frequenters 

 of grass-lands, such as prairies, meadows, swampy tracts on the 

 margins of streams, ponds, lakes, etc., as well as in grassy clearings. 

 A few are restricted to certain types of localities and certain grasses, 

 while others are widely scattered. 



Several species are recognized among the material now receiving 

 attention. 



56. Xiphidion neglectum sp. nov. 



A single male of a species, which does' not run to any of the de- 

 scribed forms given in either Redtenbacher's or Karny's synoptic 

 keys, is at hand. If we accept the statement that the hind margins 

 of the lateral lobes of the pronotum are rounded, it will not run; 

 if we decide that the hind margins are straight or nearly so, we find 

 the same trouble. It belongs to the series having the anterior tibiae 

 five- to seven-spined below; the cerci are slender, acuminate, and do 

 not have the apex depressed or flattened and are provided with a 

 single inner tooth near the middle, the dorsum of abdomen is not 

 definitely infuscated, the fastigium is rather wide at its apex with the 

 lateral margins divergent, the hind femora are unarmed, the tegmina 

 are as long as the wings and surpass the apex of the hind femora, the 

 fastigium, occiput, and the disc of the pronotum are \isibly longi- 

 tudinally marked with ferruginous and the disc of the tegmina also 

 shows signs of infuscation. Otherwise the entire insect is uniformly 

 pale testaceous, it very evidently having been left in the wet cyanide 

 tube for a day or two thus causing it to loose any possible characteristic 

 colorations. 



Length of body, cf , 15 mm.; of tegmina, 16 mm.; of hind femora, 

 12 mm. 



Habitat: Batanga (F. H. Hope, Collector). Taken in April, 1914. 

 C. M. Ace. No. 5293. 



57. Xiphidion continuum Walker. 



Xiphidium continuum Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., II, p. 271 (1869). 

 Anispptera continuum Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, p. 279 (1906). 



A pair, male and female, of a second species are determined as .Y. 

 continuum Walker. They are from Batanga, and were collected by 

 F. H. Hope in April. C. M.' Ace. No. 5293. 



