Mr. Distanfs Collection of African Locustida^. 239 



108c. Acridodcrcs punctatus, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 30 millim. ; exp. al. 73 millim. 



Female. Rufo-testaceous, with traces of bright red markings ; a 

 series of irregular white markings extending nearly round the eyes, 

 but especially below, and below these, is a very oblique white streak. 

 Pronotum with very large depressed punctures, and with numerous 

 black spots, interspersed on the sides with some white ones. Hinder 

 lobe granulated and rugose-punctate, slightly produced and trun- 

 cated behind, and with the terminal carina marked with three black 

 spots on each side. Cerci slender, hooked inwards at the end, 

 subgenital lamina produced into a long broad-pointed keel consider- 

 ably beyond the abdomen. Legs probably red during life ; four 

 front legs with the joints slightly marked with black ; middle 

 femora indistinctly spotted with black ; hind femora strongly spotted 

 with black on the upper and outer carinse ; upper surface with traces 

 of two black transverse bands ; outer median area with a double row 

 of broad opposing white stripes ; hind knees marked with black ; 

 spines of hind tibiae whitish, tipped with black, and spotted with 

 black at the base, six or seven on the outer carina. Prosternal tubercle 

 rather large and rounded. Tegmina subhyaline, very thickly reticu- 

 lated, the principal longitudinal nervures more or less black, and the 

 rest of the neuration reddish ; costal area with indistinct brown spots, 

 the rest of the wing marked with irregular double transverse brown 

 lines, rather far apart, and brown rings, etc. Wings greenish 

 hyaline, with brown neuration, and the tips clouded with brown. 



Hob. Transvaal: Rustenburg {Distant). 



But for the mucli smaller size of this specimen 

 (especially considering that it is a female), the much 

 narrower wings, more obtuse pronotum, and the broader 

 rounded prosternal spine, which resembles that of 

 Catantops, I should have been inclined to refer it to 

 A. crassus, Bol. A. j^unctatus has much superficial re- 

 semblance to some of Walker's species which I include 

 provisionally in Catantops, such as Acridium adustum and 

 Cyrtacanthacris spissa of Walker. I should add that the 

 shape of the prosternal tubercle is probably a less 

 important character in Locitstidai than has been imagined. 



Genus Catantops, Schaum (p. 105). 

 112. Catantops decorata, Gerstaecker. 

 Ilcd). Transvaal : Johannesburg {A. Ross). 



