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two strong converging carinas; mouth-parts and tips of 

 mandibles mostly black. Pronotum with the angles of the 

 deflexed lobes rounded off, the lower edge nearly straight. 



Abdomen thickly and closely punctured, especially on the 

 terminal segments. 



Femora unarmed ; front tibise with 2 spines above on the 

 inner side and with only the terminal one on the outer; 

 beneath, with 5 pairs of spines ; middle tibiee with 3 or 4 

 spines on each side above and 6 pairs below (inclusive of the 

 terminal ones) ; hind tibia? with 7 spines on the outside and 

 8 on the inside (exclusive of the terminal spines) ; hind 

 femora considerably thickened and very deeply longitu- 

 dinally sulcated on the outer side. 



1, near Eureka, Barberton (P. Rendall), type; 1, Zout- 

 pansberg (Ka?ss?ier). 



As usual, the larger specimen, which is here described, is 

 darker-coloured than the other. 



This species may be allied to G. femoralis and G. fusca, 

 Brunn., but nothing is said of their being punctuated. 



Nasidius truncatifrons. 

 Nasidius truncatifrons, St&l. 

 2, Barberton {Rendall) ; 1, Zomba, Nyasaland {Rendall). 



Gryllacridae. 



Gryllacris li/rata } n. n. 



Gryllacris aliena, Brunner (nee Walker), Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 xxxviii. p. 338 (1888). 



1, Pretoria (Distant) ; 3 (immature), Barberton (P. Ren- 

 dall). 



As this species requires renaming, I have taken the present 

 opportunity of doing so. It was described by Brunner from 

 Zanzibar, and the Natural History Museum possesses a pair 

 from Machuma, Taru Desert, British East Africa, collected 

 by Mr. C. S. Betton. 



Hetrodidas. 



Acanthoplus discoidalis. 



Hetrodes discoidalis, Walk. Cat. Derm. Salt. B. M. ii. p. 230. n. 18 

 (1869). 



1, Pretoria (Distant); 1, Zoutpansberg (Kcessner). 

 These specimens agree with the paler specimen described 



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