110 Mr. W. F. Kirby's 



dislinctly marked with blackish, and a black band, widening hind- 

 ward, extending backwards from between the eyes, over the occiput 

 and pronotum, but having a moderately broad pale border on each 

 side. Sides of head with a black stripe running down from the eye, 

 and another furtlier back, with a whitish stripe between them ; sides 

 of pronotum with two whitish and three blackish stripes, the lowest 

 of the latter triangularly expanded ; beneath it the colour is 

 testaceous, as is also the hinder lobe of the pronotum, which is more 

 strongly punctured than the rest. Pleura testaceous, mottled with 

 black. Hind femora testaceous ; on the outer side are three short 

 blackish longitudinal marks on the middle of the central lobe ; the 

 spaces between the lower cariutie are black on the outside, and red 

 on the inside, inner surface of the hind femora black to the middle, 

 after which follows a pale space, and another longitudinal black one, 

 ceasing before the hinder lobe, which is concolorous, being only 

 marked with a blackish stripe on the inside at its base. Hind tibiae 

 coral red, with nine yellow black-tipped spines on each carina. Tegmina 

 longer than the abdomen, yellowish subhyaline, with large reticulated 

 blackish spaces on the median liu'^, separated by pale spaces ; anal 

 area pale. Wings probably hyaline, tinged with red at the base. 



Hob. Tkansvaal: Pretoria {Distant). 

 Allied to C. hottentottus, Still. 



119. Calliptamus tibialis, sji. n. 



Long. Corp. 32 millim. ; exp. al. 63 inillira. 



Female. Head testaceous ; the middle of the frontal ridge, a line 

 on the outside of its lateral borders, and two lines below the eyes, 

 more or less blackish ; cheeks sometimes with a whitish bloom, 

 which extends to the hinder suture on the sides of the pronotum. 

 Pronotum narrowed in front, a slight depression on the vertex 

 between the eyes at the narrowest part ; the dark band on the 

 frontal ridge broadens behind it over the pronotum ; the sides, 

 lateral lobes, and terminal carina (which is obtusely produced and 

 rounded off in the middle above) testaceous ; two slightly oblique 

 black stripes on the sides of the pronotum from the front to the 

 hinder suture, the uppermost broadest. Tegmina brown, varied with 

 yellowish and whitish subhyaline spots and transverse strijies ; 

 towards the tips largely subhyaline ; a testaceous stripe (seen in 

 closed specimens to be the continuation of the pale sides of the 

 pronotum) occupies the upper and outer part of the anal area of the 

 tegmina ; wings hyaline. Hind femora above yellowish, with two 

 or three blackish bands, and also with blackish mottlings and black 

 dots on the carinae, but all more or less indistinct. Inner and lower 



