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41. Locusta migratorioides. 



CEclipoda migratorioides, Reiche, Voy. Abyss., iii, p. 430, 

 pi. 28, fig. 12 (1847). 



Hcd). Nyasaland : Fort Johnston (Ecndall) ; Abys- 

 sinia ; Angola ; Sierra Leone ; Las Palmas (B. M.). 



A widely-distributed species in Africa. The blue-black 

 mandibles are very characteristic. 



Genus Heteropternis. 



Heteroptcrnis, Stal, Rec. Orth., i, pp. 117, 148 (1873); 

 Saussure, Mem. See. Geneve, xxviii (9), pp. 53, 129 

 (1884), XXX (1), pp. 19, 45 (1888). 



42. Heteropternis vittata, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 25 millira. ; exp. al. (circa) 48 millim. 



Female. Black, face indistinctly mottled with paler, antennas 

 reddish above, brown below, palpi conspicuously pale yellow. Pro- 

 notum dull black, only one suture crossing the central carina a little 

 before the middle ; just behind it is a broad pale band, probably red 

 in life, occui^ying the front half of the space between its commence- 

 ment and the apex of the pronotum ; it is narrowest at the central 

 carina, and broadest above at the sides, where it drops straight down, 

 extending on the overlapping sides to their hinder extremity ; in 

 front of it are two small yellow spots on the black sides of the 

 pronotum ; the obtuse liinder angle of the pronotum above is black. 

 Abdomen testaceous, shining black above, and with broad l)lack bands 

 on the side of each segment, and with narrow black ones towards the 

 base of the front segments beneath. Hind femora black, mottled 

 with yellowish ; lower inner carina, hind tibiae (except the base and 

 spines, which are black) and the hind tarsi, except the black middle 

 joint, red. Tegmina blackish, the cells paler, except towards the 

 median line, two small yellow dots at ^ of their length, and a 

 transverse short whitish stripe at f. Wings smoky brown, sub- 

 hyaline, with the basal half red. 



Rah. British Central Africa : Zomba (Bendall). 



Probably allied to H. p)udica, Saussure. 



Described from a single specimen. There is an immature 

 specimen of what is probably an allied species, from 

 Pretoria {Distant). 



