1921.] L. Chopard : Cavcriiicoloiis Ortlioptcra. 521 



Co-types. — Three adult cf , i immature 9 and 3 young ex- 

 amples, same locality. 



Size medium, coloration rather high, not shining ; pubescence 

 rufous, rather abundant. 



Head rufous; occiput very short with a squamiform, brown- 

 ish pubescence ; frontal rostrum short, formed of two conical 

 tubercles, very obtuse and smooth with a few hairs at apex, 

 punctate at base, brown with a large ocellar spot; forehead very 

 short and narrow, face uniformlj' yellowish, long ; clypeus about 

 twice as broad as high, presenting a slight transverse keel ; labrum 

 longer than broad. Maxillae with 2 apical and i anteapical teeth ; 

 palpi very slender, yellowish, each joint weakly darkened at base 

 and apex; length of 3rd to 5th joints: 4--4'5- 7 mm. Basilar 

 almost square, mentum rather long, palpigere and lobes long ; 

 palpi with 3rd joint a little longer than the other two together. An- 

 tennae extremely approximated at base, rufous, internal face of the 

 1st joint almost touching each other. 



Pro'iotum with anterior border weakly, posterior border 

 rather strongly convex, lateral lobes high, their inferior margin 

 weakly convex, subangulate in the middle ; disk rufous, a little 

 darkened in the middle, anterior and posterior margins narrowly 

 and not iieath' bordered with brown ; a rather vague brown spot 

 on each side of the median line, near the anterior margin and the 

 posterior angle of the lateral lobes. Mesonotum with posterior 

 margin rather strongly convex, lateral lobes with inferior margin 

 straight, forming a rounded process backwards ; colour as that of 

 the pronotum with a large brownish spot in the middle, lateral 

 lobes and 2 small spots near the posterior border brown. Metano- 

 tum like mesonotum with lateral lobes regularly rounded and poste- 

 rior margin a little convex. Mesothoracic episternum with inferior 

 Ijorder broadened, subangulate. 



Abdomen rather bright rufous with posterior margin of each 

 tergite slightly darkened ; loth tergite short, with posterior 

 margin laterally keeled ; supraanal valve triangular with convex 

 sides, inferior anal valves triangular, acute at apex. Inferior face 

 yellow, subgenital plate wide, convex at base, emarginate at apex. 



Cerci long, very slender with extremely fine pubescence. 



Genitalia composed of .4 membranous triangular valves and a 

 fiat, subrectangular epiphallus. 



Legs long and slender; anterior and intermediate femora an- 

 nulated with brown, tibiae brownish; anterior femora with a very 

 short internal spine and a long external one, anterior tibiae armed 

 with 4 apical spurs, the superior external one very small, and i 

 short inferior spine between the spurs; inferior margins bearing 2 

 external and i internal spine ; intermediate tibiae likewise armed 

 but with only i external and i internal inferior spine, inserted at 

 about the apical third ; tarsi slender, the metatarsus equaling the 

 other joints together. Posterior femora very slender, annulated 

 near the apex and adorned, at their external face, with a few 

 brown spots; inferior margin unarmed; 2 very small apical 



