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Sauss. from ((Palestine»; the species bas not been 

 found since. 



3. Krauss, H. — Erklterung der Orthopteren-Tafeln J. C. 

 Savigny's in der « Description de l'Egypte )> (Verb. 

 Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XL, 1890, pp. 227 - 272). 



A description is given of a nameless species of 

 Diironia (DuronieUa) which received later on the 

 name D. laticornis Krauss (1909). 



4. Janson, 0. — in Hart : Some Account of the fauna and 

 flora of Sinai, Petra and Wady 'Arabah, London, 1891, 

 pp. 182 - 183, plate. 



A list of eight species (one Blattid and seven Acri- 

 dids) taken mainly in the Ghor es Safieh, at the south 

 end of the Dead Sea, including two new ones, Hetero- 

 gamia {Polyphaga) inaris-mortiii Jans, and Calopte- 

 niis {Sphodromerus) pilipes Jans, the types of which 

 are in the British Museum. In the list the following 

 corrections must be made : 



Cyrtacanthacris ornatipes, WMk = Euprepocne- 

 mis plorans Charp. 



Cyrtacanthacris notata, Walk. = rhisoeceirxis lit- 

 toralis (Ramb.) 



Acridium tataricum Roes. = probably. Locusta 

 migratoria (L.). 



Tryxalis unguiculata Ramb. =/lcrideiZa nasuta L. 



A very noteworthy addition to the fauna is Poeci- 

 locerus hujonius, Klug which is recorded as ((very 

 conspicuous on ((Osher» (Calotropis procera) in the 

 Ghôt es Safieh; it is a representative of a truly Ethio- 

 pian genus. 



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