140 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The genus is difficult to work, and requires good and ample material 

 to produce accurate results. I am accordingly postponing final 

 determination for a later date. 



Family PLATYBLEMMID.^. 



Genus Alluaudiella Bolivar. 



Alluaudiella Bolivar, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, LXII, p. cccx (1893); Kirby, Syn. 



Cat. Orth., II, p. 47 (1906). 

 Alluaiidia BoLiVAR {nee Lameere), Ann. Soc. Ent. France, LXII, p. 181 (1893). 



100. Alluaudiella ? flavopicta Bolivar? 



Alluaudia flavopicta Bolivar, /. c, p. 183 (1893). 

 Alluaudiella flavopicta Kirby, /. c, p. 47 (1906). 



I find two males of a species of cricket before me, which belong in 

 the Platyblemmid series, and possibly, but not certainly, to the genus 

 Alluaudiella and the species flavopicta of Bolivar, but the descriptions 

 of both the genus and species do not fit the material at hand. In the 

 first place, these insects do not have the "body greatly flattened" 

 nor especially smooth or polished, the head is not noticeably trans- 

 verse, nor is the face or front almost horizontally sloped to the rear. 

 In the second place the coloration is somewhat different from that 

 attributed to flavopicta. 



The main characteristic, however, of these specimens, which inclines 

 me to consider them different, is the large flattened basal antennal 

 joint or segment, the outer apex of which is produced into a long, 

 somewhat flattened, gently curved outwardly directed tooth, or horn, 

 which is a little longer than the rest of the joint. These specimens 

 come from Batanga, where they were collected in February and April, 

 1914, by F. H. Hope. C. M. Ace. No. 5293. 



In a synoptical key prepared by Saussure (Rev. Suisse de Zool., V, 

 p. 794, 1898), these specimens run to the genus Scapsipedus, as they 

 also do in a key prepared by Karsch, and contained in a paper on 

 saltatorial orthoptera coming from Togoland and Adeli, West Africa 

 (Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., XXXYHI, p. 154, 1893). The described 

 African species of this last-named genus are quite distinct from our 

 specimens. 



Family (ECANTHID.^. 



Genus Homceagryllus Guerin. 



Homceogryllus Guerin, LeFebvre, Voy. Abyssinie, VI, p. 335 (1847); Saussure, 

 Mem. Soc. Geneve, XXV, p. 421 (1878). 



