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Hab. Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant), Delagoa Bay 

 {Distant) ; Nyasaland : Forb Johnston, Zomba {Rendall) ; 

 Sierra Leone ; Congo (B. M.). 



One of the commonest African species, and the type of 

 the genus. 



114. Catantops urania, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 44 millira. ; exp. al. 77 millim. 



Female. Brown ; vertex, pronotum and jjleura rugose -punctate ; 

 vertex, cheeks and pronotum with scattered black dots, especially 

 towards the median line of the pronotum, where they are more or 

 less continuous, and expand outwards in two diverging lines from 

 before the hinder suture. Abdomen with a row of shining black 

 spots on the back, decreasing nearly to the extremity. Hind femora 

 yellowish, with the carinae and angles of the central area dotted with 

 black ; central area dull greenish, except on the sides and middle ; 

 upper surface with two transverse black bands extending to the 

 inner surface, the first about the middle, and the second half-way 

 between this and the black knees ; under-surface black externally 

 and red internally. Lower projecting lobes yellow. Tibite and 

 tarsi vinous red. with two yellow spots towards the base, followed 

 by a broader yellow band above ; nine white, black-tipped spines in 

 the outer row, and ten in the inner. Post-sternal lobes suljcon- 

 tiguous. Tegmina brownish, subhyaline towards the tips, and more 

 or less reticulated and mottled with darker brown transverse 

 nervules. Hind wings pale blue, hyaline, with black nervures. 



Hab. Transvaal : Pretoria, Barberton {Distant) ; Nya- 

 saland : Fort Johnston, Zomba {Rendall). 



Allied to C. spissa, Walk., from West Africa; but C. 

 spissa is smaller, the wings are much less distinctly blue, 

 and the pattern of the hind femora is different. C. urania, 

 however, so much resembles the description of Acridmm 

 arthriticum, Serville, in almost every particular (size in- 

 ckided), that I should have identified it with that species 

 without hesitation, but that Serville's description of the 

 hind legs of his A. arthriticum seems to agree with those 

 of a CallijJiamus. Can he have had a specimen of the 

 present species with the legs of some large Galliptavius 

 substituted for its own ? 



The description of G. urania is taken from the specimen 

 from Zomba. 



