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lie; hind angles of the lateral lobes attenuato in short 

 spines. Elytra extending a little beyond the meso- 

 notum; chirping apparatus developed; vertical raised 

 ridges high; lateral horizontal margins scarcely de- 

 veloped, except apically. 



Length of body $ 78 mm., d* 71 mm.; prono- 

 tum ? 12.5 mm., cf l^ mm.; elytra cT 5 mm.; ant. 

 femur $ 24 mm., cf 26 mm.; interm. femur $ 22 

 mm., cf 24 mm.; hind femur $ 49 mm., d' 62 mm.; 

 ovipositor 9 3 1. 5 mm. 



Female type is from Beisan, Jordan valley, 24 

 May 1922; two male paratypes from the Nahr es 

 Zehrka, Coastal zone, 12 and 24 June 1922. 



Although the syslematics of the genus Saga are 

 in a great confusion ,the new species stems to be 

 sufficiently distinct from all known ones. It belongs 

 to the group of slenderly built species, which in- 

 cludes several insects from Asia Minor and Southern 

 Balcans. Of this, the nearest to the new species seems 

 to be S. longicaudata Krauss, known from Gülek in 

 the Cilician Taurus, but in that latter ovipositor is 

 described as long as abdomen, while in S. graciiipc^- 

 it is distinctly shorter than that (3i.5 mm. and 5o 

 mm. respectively); the male elytra of S. longicaudata 

 are with a broad lateral marginal expansion which is 

 practically absent in iS. gracilipes; femora of the latter 

 species are armed with a smaller number of spines, 

 than in -S. longicaudata (10 -11); male cerei of the 

 Cilician species are widened towards the apex which 

 is not the case in S. gracilipes. Another allied species 

 S. puella Wern. from Ephesus, which differs by 

 -its .very short ovipositor and some other characters. 



