Tlie Genus Acrida. 185 



Calamus linearis. Sauss., 1861, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (4), 



p. 476, pi. ii, fig. 3. 

 Karscb, 1893, Ins. von Adeli, 56, fig. 3 (excl. syn. 



BoL). 

 Griffini, 18!)7, Boll. Mus. Tor., No. 290, p. 6 (excl. 



syn.). 



(?) Mesox>s gmcilis. Burm., 1839, Handb. ii, 610. 



Patria. ? {Sauss.) ; Bismarckburg (Karsch) ; Bogos 



(Coll. Bi-unner, No. 12,768); Kazungula on the Upper 

 Zambesi {Gnlfi.ni) ; H6 on the Slave Coast (Coll. Brunner, 

 No. 17,436). 



Bolivar (Ort. Afr. Mus., Lisb., i, 1889, p. 94) wrongly 

 regards this species as synonymous with Amycus xantho}?- 

 terns, iis Karsch rightly points out, and he misquotes Bolivar's 

 rhodio23terus ; but I fail to see why the latter assumes that 

 Bolivar's species should be C. linearis, and that his deter- 

 mination is wrong. I prefer to merely regard Bolivar's 

 synonymy as faulty. 



De Saussure's figure is incorrect in omitting the promi- 

 nent genicular spines, and Karsch's drawing shows the posi- 

 tion of the eyes inaccurately. Griffini considers Karsch's 

 insect as an entirely different species, but it appears to me 

 that it entirely agrees with C. linearis, Sauss. ; the Italian 

 author bases his opinion on Karsch's drawing, especially 

 on the position of the eyes ; the specimen in the Brunner 

 collection agrees equally well with the C. linearis of de 

 Saussure and of Karsch. I prefer to disagree with Griffini, 

 in regarding Karsch's determination as correct. 



33. Amycus, Stal. 



Statiira minori. Cajiut pronoto hand lougius, antice rotundatum. 

 Antennas breves, basi deplanatte, apice cylindricaj, segmento apicale 

 composito. Caput et pronotum supra tota rugis longitudinalibus 

 instructa. Pronotum compressum, margine antico truncato, postico 

 acutangulo : lobi laterales margine antico oblique, infero recto, pos- 

 tico sinuato. Elytra angusta ; al.'e elytris breviores. Pedes breves ; 

 femora postica abdomen paullo supeiantia, elytrorum apicem baud 

 attingentia, lobis genicularibus lateralibus acuminatis, superioribus 

 in lobos obtusos productis. Tibite posticte spinis parvis 8 armatis. 



Amyeus. Still, 1855, 0. V. A. F., 353. 

 Stitl, B., 1873 : Rec. Orth., i, 89. 



