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45b. Acrotyhis annulatus. 



Long. Corp. 16-18 niillim. ; exp. al. 36-42 millim. 



Head and thorax rugose and granulated, rufo-testaceous, abdomen 

 reddish, with black markings on the back towards the base, and 

 yellow markings on the sides. Legs reddish, four front legs annulated 

 with brown, hind femora indistinctly spotted with black outside, and 

 black on the inside, with two yellow bands before the extremity, 

 hind tibiaj black, with two broad yellow rings, the second broadest, 

 spines black, eight in the outer row, tarsi yellow. Tegmina rosy 

 brown, snbhyaline towards the extremity, with numerous intercalated 

 nervures, marked with two large brown shades on the costa, one on 

 the convexity, and the other beyond, and with numerous other smaller 

 indistinct btown and pale spots chiefly along the borders ; between 

 the principal longitudinal nervures runs a series of small long or 

 round brown dots. Wings subhyaline, with the base yellow, and 

 the hind margin very broadly infuscated. 



Hah. Transvaal: Vxaioridi {Distant) ; Natal: Durban 

 {Ross). 



Desciibed from five specimens. But for the interralated 

 nervures, I should have referred this species to A.cqjricornis, 

 Still ; but this is placed by Stal and Saussure in the other 

 section of the genus. From A. dcustus, Stal and Saussuro 

 (and Thunberg ?), A. annulatus is separated by the colour 

 of the legs. 



45c, Acrotylus patritelis. 



Gryllus patruclis, Herrich-Schaffer, Panzer, Faun. Germ. 



Fasc, 157, pi. xviii (1840). 

 Acrotyluspatruclis, Brunn. Prodr. Eur. Orth., p. 156 (18S2) ; 



Sauss., Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9), p. 191 (1884); 



XXX, p. 68 (1888). 

 (Edi]3oda inficita, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt., B. M., iv, p. 742, 



n. 75 (1870). 



Hcdh Transvaal : Pretoria {Distant) ; Nyasaland : 

 Fort Johnston {Rcndall). 



A widely-distributed species occurring throughout South 

 Europe, Africa, and Western and Southern Asia eastwards 

 to Ceylon. It is very variable, and the specimen from 

 Pretoria much resembles Walker's types of his (E. i7ificita, 

 and labelled " Sandwich Islands. Presented by Captain 

 Beechey " ; but they are probably from the Canaries, like 



