South African Grasshoppers. 103 
All records of the latter species from South Africa must be 
referred to O. gracilis, which is very widely distributed in 
that country and known to me from many localities. 
BrRaIniA, gen. nov. 
Slightly reminding in its general appearance of a 
Sphingonotus, but differing from it strongly in many im- 
portant characters, 
Antenne short, filiform. Face slightly reclinate, convex. 
Frontal ridge in profile regularly convex in its upper part, 
practically straight i in thé rest, very little projecting, almost 
flat, but with the margins distinctly incrassate. Fastigium 
of the vertex strongly ‘sloping, in profile regularly rounded, 
gradually running into the frontal ridge, without any mar- 
ginal carinee ; its surface perfectly flat, without a median 
carina ; the distance between the eyes twice as broad as the 
frontal ridge in its broadest portion, which is just above 
Fig. 2. 
Brainia hirsuta, gen. et sp. n. 
the ocellus. Occiput regularly convex. Pronotum rela- 
tively broad and short, with a feeble constriction before the 
middle ; its disc slightly convex in the prozona and practically 
flat in the metazona; the transverse sulci distinct, but: not 
deep, complicately curved (see fig. 2); the fore margin of 
the pronotum envelops the occiput like a collar, obtusangu- 
lately excised in the middle, with two round lobes sideways 
from the emargination ; the hind margin obtusangular, with 
the apical angle not at all rounded and the sides straight ; 
no trace of median or lateral keels; lateral lobes of the 
