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Taken among sedges and rank grass which was 

 growing in shallow water in the Papyrus swamp at 

 the north end of lalve Hiilch. Quite common. 



Redlenbacher described the species from a single 

 female from Egypt, and his description being very 

 brief and inexact one cannot feel quite certain about 

 the determination. The female specimens from Pales- 

 tine agree with the description and with measure- 

 ments^ of the type, but differ in the hind knees not 

 blackish-brown but unicolorous with the rest of the 

 femora; this may be due to the Palestinian specimens 

 belonging to a lighter coloured form, as they are 

 pale-green in colour with the upper side only slight- 

 ly brownish, while Redlenbacher described his insect 

 as " fusco-testacewn" ; it is hardly possible, how- 

 ever, to attribute specific importance to this diffe- 

 rence. Genitalia of the hitherto undescribed male are, 

 as follows : 



Last tergite with two widcily separated small 

 decurved lobes behind. Cerci very much alike those 

 of C. conocephalus L. { — althiopicus Thunbg.), i.e. 

 armed with an incurved median tooth and with a 

 tubercle at its base. Subgenital plate with a broad 

 obtusangular emargination. 



C. lugubris may be separated from C. conoce- 

 phalus with which it has also in common the un- 

 armed prosternum, by the elytra not reaching the 

 hind knees, by female subgenital plate truncate be- 

 hind and by somewhat smaller size. 



33. Saga ephippigera, F. - W. 

 Kaukab el Hawa, 8 Apr. 



