88 Mr. W. F. Kirby's 



a (loiiljlo row of iiunlerate-sized spines above. Abdomen wilb a 

 Ljirina regubirly arclied on each segment. 



This insect appears to be allied to tiic genus J/aura. 

 It is perhaps a larval form, but does not agree sufficiently 

 with any specimen before me to be placed in tlie same genus. 



69. Eioamontor antcnnalis, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 16 millim. 



Male. Rufo-testaceons, darkest on the bead and thorax, set with 

 yellow tuljercles, of wliicb the largest are a pair on the back, and an 

 oblong one on each side, at the base of the pronotum ; while on the 

 abdomen the spots forming the lowest row on the sides are the 

 largest. Antennaj black, the whole of joint 13, and the under-snrface 

 of the following ones to the tip, rufous. Head black, dotted with 

 yellow ; sculellum of the vertex, below the lateral carina^, palpi, 

 pectus, under-surface of the abdomen, and cerci, rufous. Legs more 

 or less varied with reddish or yellowish, and black, and dotted with 

 yellow ; lower carina) of the hind femora yellow, interrupted with 

 black. 



Hah. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant). 

 Described from two specimens. 



Genus Dictyophorus. 



Didyophorus, Thunberg, Mem, Pctersb., v, p. 258 (1815). 

 II Pctasia, Serville (ncc Stephens), Ann. Sci. Nat., xxii, p. 



278 (1831); Ins. Orth., p. 628 (1839); Stal, Roc. 



Orth., i, pp. 12, 20 (1873); Bolivar, An. Sci. Esp., 



xiii, p. 481 (1884). 

 Timnbcrg included three species under this name : 

 D. spnvians, 2)a2nllosi(s, and rdicnlatus. D. rdieulains is 

 congeneric, if not identical, with Acridinm microptermn, 

 Beauvois, the type of Romalea, Serville {Bhomalca, 

 Burmeister) ; and D. 2)a2nllos7is is apparently an immature 

 insect belonging to the genus rhymatcus, Thunberg. 

 Tiiis leaves the first species (and therefore ipso fado the 

 type, in tlie view of some entomologists ; though when 

 I raised the question years ago at the Entomological 

 Society, the suggestion was rejected), D. sp)umans, as the 

 type of Didyophorus; more especially as it is the type 

 of Serville's later and preoccupied genus Pdasia, Avhich 

 could not be retained in any case. 



