Mr. W. F. Kirby on the Family Hetrodidse. 97 



XTII. — Notes on the Family Hetrodidse, with a List of the 

 described Species. By W. F. KlRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., &c. 



The family Hetrodidse includes a number of rather large 

 spiny apterous Orthoptera, a synopsis of which was published 

 by Dr. Karsch in 1887 in the ' Berliner entomologische 

 Zeitschrift,' vol. xxxi. Several additional species have been 

 described since. I have just completed the rearrangement 

 of the specimens in the Natural History Museum, and have 

 made several notes on synonymy &c, which I thought it 

 would be useful to publish at once, and I prefix a list of all 

 the species hitherto described. 



With the exception of one or two species which are said 

 to occur in Asia Minor, the family is wholly African, and 

 the species appear to be more numerous in Eastern and, 

 perhaps, Southern Africa than on the West Coast. The 

 Spanish and North-African genus Pycnogaster, Graells, is 

 now referred by Brunner von Wattenwyl to the family 

 Ephippigeridse instead of to the Hetrodidse. 



The synonymy of the true Hetrodidse is given by Karsch 

 in the paper just quoted, and I have therefore only given 

 full references where additions or corrections were required. 



Species marked f are wanting in the Museum collection ; 

 ||, as usual, denotes a preoccupied name ; * denotes type of 

 genus. 



List of described Species of Hetrodidse. 



Family Hetrodidse. 



Subfamily Hetrodinx:. 



Heteodes, Fischer de Waldheim (1833) . 



*1. Hetrodes pupus, Linn. — Africa, Cape Verde Islands, 

 Asia Minor. 



[Typ. fig., Roesel, Insectenbelust. ii. Heuschrecken, tab. vi. fig. 3.] 

 Hetrodes pupa et spinulosis, F. de W. Orth. Ross. pp. 368, 369, 

 pi. xxxiv. figs. 1,2(1846). 



2. Hetrodes product us, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. ii. p. 227. 



n. 4(1869).— Congo. 



3. Hetrodes macrurus, Walker, I. c. p. 228. n. 6 (1869).— ? 



4. Hetrodes marginatus, Walker, I. c. p. 226. n. 3 (1869). — 



Cape. 

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