Repoi't on a Collection of African Locusticlx. 93 



Hah. Transvaal : Barberton {Rendall) ; Murchison 

 Range (B. M.); Zululand (Scmssiorc). 



The male (not described by Saussure) is 38 millim. in 

 length, or 46 to the extremity of the closed wood-brown 

 tegmina. The front is rather prominent, and the scutellum 

 of the vertex forms a long oval, with converging lateral 

 carintp, and a slight median carina behind. The head and 

 prothorax are longitudinally striped with black and testace- 

 ous, and there is a very characteristic testaceous stripe, 

 meeting in front, and running backwards below the eye to 

 a point, before reaching the hinder edge of the prothorax. 

 The antennae are black, with the two basal joints, and 

 more or less of the five terminal joints, testaceous. The 

 female from Barberton is much greyer, with the abdomen 

 brown. In the female from Murchison Range, the flat- 

 tened portion of the antenna? and the lower part of the 

 face are reddish, instead of black. 



77. XipMcera eblis, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 55 millim. 



Female. Very dark chestnut, approacliing black on some parts of 

 the head ; head and thorax moderately thickly speckled with white, 

 the rest of the body more sparingly ; vertex considerably produced 

 above the lower part of the face ; scutellum of the vertex forming a 

 long oval, with lateral carinas behind, curving inwards ; head and 

 thoi'ax with longitudinal ill-defined blackish marks ; face thickly 

 dusted with white, forming an ill-defined pointed stripe backwards 

 under the eye, as described in the male of X. riasnta. Antennte 14- 

 jointed, black, except the two basal, and the terminal joints ; joints 

 3-7 very broad and flattened, joints 8 and 9 scarcely narrower, the 

 last five much narrower, the last longest, and conical. Thorax mode- 

 rately arched, tlie hinder part with rounded crenulations, the 

 extremity somewhat obtuse. Abdomen with the usual teeth on the 

 median carina, short and obtuse on the second and third segment, 

 scarcely marked on the others. Hind femora moderately long and 

 broad, slightly dentated above, but merely tuberculate and sinuated 

 below. Hmd tibiae with ten spines on the outer carina, the space 

 between the carina; filled up with whitish hair. 



Rcch. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant). 



Closely allied to X. punctosa, Walk., etc., but differs 

 from any other species in the shape of the antennae. 



