130 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



cc. Anterior tibije above profoundly or deeply sulcata. 

 d. Island of St. Thome, Gulf of Guinea. 



greeffi Krauss, paradoxus Bolivar. 

 dd. Gaboon, French Congo siccifolium Sjostedt. 



72. Corycus kraussi Kirby. 



Coryctis kraussi Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, 367 (1906). 



Corycus jourinei Krauss (nee Saussure), Zool. Jahrb., Syst., V, pp. 352, pi. 30, 



figs. la, b (1890); Redtenbacher, I. c, p. 221 (1892). 



This species is represented by a single fine male, from Batanga. 

 It was collected in April, 1914, by F. H. Hope. C. M. Ace. No. 5264. 



Family MECONEMID^. 



The family Meconemidse is comparatively small. Its representa- 

 tives are all confined to the Old World. Eight genera are included in 

 the family, comprising twenty-three species. 



Genus Amytta Karsch. 



Amytla K.\rsch, Wien. Ent. Zeit., VII, p. 160 (1888); Ib., Ent. Nach., XVI, 

 p. 264 (1890); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, p. 373 (1906). 



Only three species of this genus are known. All are native to tropi- 

 cal Africa. 



73. Amytta occidentalis Karsch. 



Amytta occidentalis Karsch, Ent. Nachr., XVI, 264 (1890); Griffini, Ann. Mus. 

 Geneva, XLII, p. 367 (1906); Kirby, I. c, p. 373 (1906). 



This delicate insect is represented by a single male which was taken 

 by A. I. Good at Lolodorf, May 27, 1914. C. M. Ace. No. 5264. 



Family PHANEROPTERID.F:. 



The family known among orthopterologists by the above name is 

 very extensive indeed, and, as stated in a former paper by the present 

 author, (See Annals, Vol. IX, p. 286) "is distributed throughout the 

 warmer countries of the globe, where its representatives are among the 

 commoner and more conspicuous orthopterous insects to be met 

 with at almost every turn." While that applied to conditions in 

 America, the same remark is eciually true of Africa, and, for that 

 matter, of any other country, including the larger islands of the 

 Orient. Most of these insects are green or greenish in color, and live 



