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base, and a smaller and more irregular one near the ex- 

 tremity, towards the upper carina, but on the outer side 

 only. Tegmina and wings as in M. atriceps; a large pale 

 spot above the hind coxae. 



Bab. Transvaal: Sterkfontein (7yio??iassc)!). 

 In the collection of the British Museum. 



68. Maura bolivctri, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 30 millim. 



Female. Dark reddish-brown, mottled with black ; head and 

 thorax rugose above, scutellum of vertex thickly punctured ; antenn.-e 

 black, the penultimate joint and sometimes the one preceding it red ; 

 face and lower part of head shining black, except a broad luteous 

 band, covering the greater part of the clypeus, except near the eyes, 

 and the middle of the base of the labrum ; tegmina abbreviated, 

 reaching nearly to the end of the third segment of the abdomen ; a 

 large rufous spot below their base, on the metapleura ; pronotum 

 rounded behind ; hind femora black inside and below, mottled with 

 reddish and black on the outside, and the inner carina above yellowish, 

 interrupted with black. Abdomen more or less mottled with red and 

 black above ; beneath black banded with red. 



Hah. Nyasaland : Fort Johnston (Rcndall) ; Zoinba 

 (B. M.). 



Named after the eminent Spanish Orthopterist, Sehor 

 I. Bolivar. 



Genus Epamontor, g. n. 



Male. Scutellum of the vertex as long as the large oval eyes ; seen 

 from above, ovally rounded in front, but surmounted by two lateral 

 carinse running within the eyes, nearly meeting in front in an acute 

 angle ; head, thorax, and abdomen, with a well-marked median 

 carina, ceasing a little in front of the eyes, where it is followed by 

 a sulcation extending to the front ; antennae placed near the eyes, 

 below the lateral ocelli ; antennae fusiform, about 17-jointed, the 

 joints of the fiagellum mostly short, transverse, cheese-shaped ; all 

 parts of the body marked with yellow granules, in more or less 

 regular longitudinal rows ; pronotum truncated and slightly raised 

 behind ; cerci stout, conical, a little shorter than the terminal joint 

 of the abdomen ; legs long and slender ; hind femora unarmed, slightly 

 and gradually attenuated towards the extremity, and nearly as long 

 as the abdomen ; hind tibiae about as long as the hind femora, with 



