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Orthoptera in the British Museum. 111 
1870. Cyrtacanthacris ornatipes Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. 
B. M., ii, p. 575, no. 50. 
1870. Heteracris consobrina Walker, l|.c., iv, 673, 674, 
no. 40. 
1891. Cyrtacanthacris ornatipes Hart, Fauna and Flora 
Sinai, p. 183, fig. 5. 
1905. Calliptamus reticulatus Jacobson and _ Bianchi, 
Priamokr. 1 Lozhnos. Ross. Imp., p. 320. 
The type specimen of consobrina has only one hind leg, 
which is pinned to it and does not belong to it; this leg 
seems to belong to one of the species of the genus Zoniopoda. 
British Museum specimens : Syria, 1 2; Galilea, 2 99; 
Algeria, June 1856, 1 9 (H. Clark); Algeria, Bone, 3. xi. 1896, 
1 9 (A. EF. Eaton); Syria, 1 9; Dead Sea, Chor-es-Safiah, 
1 Q (this is, evidently, the specimen figured in Hart, Fauna 
and Flora Sinai, p. 183, fig. 5); Inca, Majorca, March, 1 9 
(O. Thomas and R. I. Pocock); two 929 without locality 
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(Walker's types of consobrina and ornatipes). 
la. Euprepocnemis plorans pallida subsp. nov. 
Resembling in size and habitus the typical (Mediterranean) form, 
but the general coloration is pale with light-brownish markings; 
pronotum practically unicolored, the typical middle spot being but 
a little darker than the lateral keels; elytra without sulphurous 
axillar stripe, with distal half of radial veins brown; the venation 
of elytra does not differ from that in the typical form; brownish 
spots on elytra less numerous than in the typical form and light; 
hind legs pale without any markings or differently coloured parts 
except black spots on knee lobes. Length of body 3 (type) 29 mm. ; 
of pronotum 6 mm.; of elytra 28 mm.; of hind femora 17 mm. 
The dimensions of the female cotype are: Length of body (9) 
35 mm.; of pronotum 7 mm.; of elytra 35 mm.; of hind femora 
23 mm, 
This form, as it is evident from the above description, 
differs from the typical H. plorans only in coloration, this 
difference being, however, so strikmg that I believe that 
I am correct in regarding it as a southern geographical 
form, that replaces the typical E. plorans (known with 
certainty from Mediterranean countries only) in Eastern 
Africa. This form is rather like #. bandana longipennis 
Uvar., described below, but is easily distinguished by the 
venulation of the elytra, which is quite like that in typical 
