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as in the last species, and with a narrow, sharply-defined, black 

 shoulder-stripe running from the eye to the end of the pronotuni. 

 Sides of the pronotum with several large black spots round the 

 edges, but otherwise, like the pleura, almost destitute of black dots, 

 though coarsely punctured. Tegmina rather longer than the abdomen, 

 with a black line on the costa towards the base, and a broad central 

 black band, intersected by the pale longitudinal forking nervures. 

 Wings hyaline. Legs thickly dotted with black, hind femora Avith 

 a row of rather large black spots in the middle of the outer central area. 

 Tibit« blackish below, and with eight black-tipped spines on the outer 

 carina. Prosternal tubercle conical, rounded at the tip, rather more 

 slender than in the last species. 



Found abundantly by Mr. A. Whyte at an elevation 

 of 2000-3000 feet at Zomba in September (Brit. Mus.), 



CALLIPTAMINJE. 



Genus Euryphymus. 



Eury^phymus, Stal, Rec. Ortb., i, p. 72 (1873) ; CEfv. Vet. 

 Akad. Forh., xxxiii (3), p. 40 (1876). 



117. Ettryphymus cry thr opus. 



Gryllus erythropus, Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb., v, p. 



248 (1815), ix, p. 426 (1824). 

 Callijjtamus (Euryphymus) erythropus, Stal, Rec. Oith., i, p. 



73 (1873). 



Hah. Transvaal : Pretoria, Masil. Nek {Distant). 



About twenty specimens. The black pattern on the 

 back of the pronotum varies a little in form, sometimes 

 extending to the back of the pronotum ; but it more 

 frequently ceases before reaching the extremity. 



Genus Calliptamus. 



Calliptamus, Serville, Ann. Sci. Nat. xxii, p. 284 (1831) ; 



Ins. Orth. p. 686 (1839); Stal, (Efv. Vet. Akad. 



Forh., xxxiii (3), p. 43 (1876). 

 Calop)tcnus, Burmeister, Handb. Ent., ii, p. 637 (1839). ^ 



118. Calliptamus antcnnatus, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 16 millim. 



Male. Testaceous. Antenme black beneath, frontal ridge mottled, 



