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Genus Paratettix, Bolivar. 



Ann. Soc. Entom. Belgique, xxxi, p. 270, 1887. 



P. pictus, sp. nov. (Plate XLIX, figs. 5 and 5a.) 



Body small, coloured fuscous and light variegated. Head not ex- 

 serted, dorsum above little rugose-granulate ; vertex little narrower 

 than one of the eyes, little narrowed toward the front, viewed from 

 above not produced beyond the eyes ; frontal costa in profile slightly 

 projecting beyond the eyes above, but between the antennae subar- 

 cuate ; between the eyes indistinctly sinuate, the lateral rami 

 moderately separated ; antennae inserted between the lower angles 

 of the eyes ; eyes in profile subconoidal, the occiput covered. Pro- 

 notum anteriorly truncate, between the shoulders convex, little 

 widened, posterior process subulate, extended beyond the femoral 

 apices behind ; anterior prozonal carinae very short, quite widely 

 separated and parallel ; median carina marked with fuscous, little 

 compressed percurrent, subgibbulose near the front margin ; posterior 

 angles of the lateral lobes rather obliquely excised. Elytra ovate; 

 wings caudate and black. Femora elongate, little compressed, 

 margins entire and sparingly pilose ; middle femora in male nar- 

 rowed toward the apices ; posterior femora elongate, margins minutely 

 serrulate, antegenicular and genicular denticles prominent ; posterior 

 tibiae black with white annulation behind the knees and marked 

 with white at the distal third ; second and third posterior tarsal 

 pulvilli subequal in length. 



Entire length of body, ^ 9 - 6 mm ; pronotum, 8 mm. ; posterior 

 femora, 4 mm. 



One example, No. 2158, from N.E. Rhodesia, Mporokosa, 

 4500 ft., August 31, 1908, collected and presented to Oxford 

 University Museum by S. A. Neave. This species is 

 nearly allied to wilvcrtld, Bolivar, differing in being more 

 rugose, smaller in stature, in not being depressed behind 

 the shoulders on the dorsum, and in the less depressed 

 median carina behind the anterior border. It also ditfers 

 in the equal length of the second and third posterior tarsal 

 articles. 



Genus Peototettix, Bolivar. 

 Ann. Soc. Entom. Belgique, xxxi, p. 255, 1887. 



As I interpret the African genus Prototettix, Bol., there 

 are three representatives, namely, impressics, Bol., afri- 



