410 Dr. J. L. Hancock's Further Stvdica of 



apices widely rounded ; winj,'s caudate. ATiterior and middle 

 femora distinctly compressed, entire, (wider in the male) the inferior 

 carin;« of middle femora distinctly pilose, middle tibiae having the 

 carina3 little compressed and distinctly pilose ; posterior femora 

 elongate, having margins entire or minutely serrulate above, the 

 femoral lobes minute ; the three pulvilli of the lirst posterior tarsal 

 articles equal in len^^th and spiculate below ; posterior tibia3 fuscous 

 bearing a white annulation beliind the knee, and a second smaller 

 ring at the distal third jiart. Body variably coloured, often greyish 

 or rufo-cinerous variegated with fuscous. 



Entire length of male and female (to end of wings) 11-12 mm.; 

 I^ronotum 9"5-10 mm. ; posterior femora 4-4'5 mm. 



Three male examples from My.sore, India; one male with 

 label bearing words "Central India," and a female witii 

 simply "India," collected by Hearsey ; University Museum, 

 Oxford. 



This species is distinguished from 2^''''S"'>>"tus by the 

 lightly sinuate frontal costa, the undulate median carina of 

 pronotum, the more scabrous dorsum, the spiculate pulvilli 

 of the first tarsal articles, the more compressed anterior 

 and middle femora, and the hirsute or pilose inferior carinas 

 of middle femora and the compressed hirsute carinaj of 

 middle tibiae. 



Genus Paratettix, Bolivar. 

 1. P. scaler, Thunb. Nov. Act. Ups. vii, p. 159, 1815. 



= Tclmatettix burri, Hanc. Occas. Memoirs Chicago Ent. 

 Soc. I, No. 1, p. 10, fig. of male 5-5a, Plate I, 1900. 



Three females, two males, and one immature, Nos. 

 10587-10590, 10791, and 3950. Five of this number are 

 from Momba.sa, Africa, 12 miles N.W. of Mazeras, 500 It., 

 Sept. 23, 1905, collected and presented by Prof. ?]. B. 

 Poulton to the University Museum, Oxford. No. 3950, is 

 from Natal, Durban, Feb. 11, 1905, collected and presented 

 by G. F. Leigh to the ]\Iuseum. 



Karny has recently described a short-wing form of this 

 species as P. uganclensis in Mathem. naturw. Klaase Bd. 

 cxvi, Abt. 1, Feb., p. 26, 1907; " Orthoptercnfauna des 

 Sudans." There is one male specimen long-wing form, 

 No. 4750, in the University ]\Iuseum, which appears to be 

 a variety of scaler ; it is from Salisbury, 5000 ft., Masliona- 

 land, collected by Mr. Guy Marshall. 



