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pi'othorax are marked with a slight median carina, otherwise obso- 

 lete. Abdomen brown (perhaps reddish in life ?) above, and buff 

 below. Tegmina green, except the tips, which are lilac (perhaps 

 discoloured ?) ; .there are traces of an interrupted brown longitudinal 

 strijje. Basal half of wings and principal nervures throughout clear 

 rose-colour, unspotted ; outer half hyaline. Longitudinal and trans- 

 verse nervures towards the tips mostly green ; transverse and inter- 

 calated nervures mostly blackish in the middle, and reddish towards 

 the anal angle. Legs green, tarsi rufo -testaceous. 



Hal). Transvaal : Barberton {Rcndall). 



It is extremely difficult to determine the number of 

 species in this group, and the present insect would perhaps 

 be regarded by some entomologists as a red-winged variety 

 of A. turrita or gigantca. 



13. Acricla aspcrsata, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 64 millim ; exp. ah 110 millim. 



Female. Head, thorax, legs and tegmina green. Head with a 

 single black lateral line behind the eye, thorax with double black 

 lines, meeting in front, obsolete behind, and bordered with yellow 

 lines, on the iipper and middle lateral carina?. Hindei- part of 

 thorax slightly expanded, pointed behind, and longitudinally striated. 

 Abdomen and hind femora greenish and buff, with black longitudinal 

 spots on the back. Tegmina green, the costa edged by a black line ; 

 a central longitudinal black stripe, undulated and filled up with 

 yellow lines above, and broken into spots at § of the length of 

 the tegmen. Wings rose-colour, except on the apical third, where 

 they are greenish-hyaline ; and with most of the interspaces between 

 the transverse nervures marked with small blood-red spots. 



Rah. East Africa: Masongolem, 3000 feet {Scott 

 Elliot) (Brit. Mus.) ; TRANSVAAL, Barberton {Rcndall). 



The species is described from Mr. Scott Elliot's specimen. 

 Mr. Kendall's is more faded ; but the head, prothorax, and 

 tegmina are striped with rose-colour, and the space below 

 the wings is marked obhquely with black and rose-colour. 

 In the other specimen, it is indistinctly marked with green 

 and black. 



14. Acrida acuminata. 



Acrida acuminata, Stal, Rec. Orth., p. 97 (1873). 



Hal. Transvaal : Barberton (P. Rcndall). 

 One specimen, differing from Stal's description in wanting 

 the dark lines towards the tips of the wings. 



