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  Mr. 
  Alan 
  P. 
  Dodd's 
  Notes 
  on 
  

  

  Head 
  no 
  wider 
  than 
  thorax 
  ; 
  vertex 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  long 
  ; 
  vertex 
  

   and 
  cheeks 
  densely 
  granulate, 
  and 
  also 
  with 
  shallow 
  obscure 
  large 
  

   punctures 
  which 
  are 
  wanting 
  around 
  ocelli 
  ; 
  between 
  ocelli 
  rugose 
  ; 
  

   against 
  occipital 
  margin 
  with 
  a 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  abbreviated 
  

   median 
  carina; 
  frontal 
  dejiression 
  large, 
  jjrofound, 
  and 
  margined, 
  

   finely 
  transversely 
  striate; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  bare; 
  ocelU 
  large, 
  close 
  

   together, 
  the 
  lateral 
  pair 
  a 
  little 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  eyes. 
  Antennae 
  

   12-jointed 
  ; 
  scape 
  slender 
  ; 
  pedicel 
  almost 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  its 
  greatest 
  

   width 
  ; 
  f 
  unicle 
  1 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  iDedicel, 
  almost 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  wide, 
  2 
  and 
  3 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  wide, 
  4 
  quadrate 
  ; 
  

   club 
  6-jointed, 
  joint 
  1 
  small 
  and 
  wider 
  than 
  long, 
  2 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  

   than 
  wide, 
  3-5 
  quadrate. 
  Thorax 
  not 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  its 
  greatest 
  

   width 
  ; 
  scutum 
  densely 
  granulate, 
  the 
  median 
  lobe 
  with 
  indications 
  

   of 
  shallow 
  punctures 
  ; 
  parapsidal 
  furrows 
  distinct, 
  the 
  median 
  

   groove 
  rej^laced 
  by 
  an 
  obscure 
  carina; 
  scutellum 
  semicircular, 
  

   granulate, 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  row 
  of 
  punctures, 
  also 
  pimctate 
  around 
  

   the 
  margins; 
  postscutellum 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  bi 
  dentate 
  tooth; 
  median 
  

   segment, 
  mesopleurae 
  and 
  metapleurae, 
  longitudinally 
  rugo-striate 
  ; 
  

   propleurae 
  granulate. 
  Fore-wings 
  reacliing 
  sMghtly 
  beyond 
  apex 
  

   of 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  broad 
  ; 
  hyaline 
  ; 
  venation 
  yelloAvish 
  ; 
  submarginal 
  

   vein 
  attaining 
  the 
  costa 
  at 
  half 
  -wing 
  length; 
  marginal 
  vein 
  short, 
  

   about 
  one-fourth 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  stigmal 
  which 
  is 
  long 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   perpendicular; 
  postmarginal 
  barely 
  twice 
  as 
  lo»g 
  as 
  the 
  stigmal. 
  

   Abdomen 
  hardly 
  longer 
  than 
  thorax; 
  hardly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  its 
  

   greatest 
  width 
  ; 
  pointed 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  with 
  two 
  short 
  spines 
  ; 
  seg- 
  

   ment 
  3 
  somewhat 
  wider 
  than 
  long, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  1 
  and 
  2 
  united, 
  and 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  following 
  united; 
  1 
  strongly 
  striate, 
  2 
  striate, 
  and 
  

   between 
  the 
  striae 
  finely 
  reticulate, 
  3 
  irregularly 
  striate 
  and 
  densely 
  

   reticulate, 
  5 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  4 
  finely 
  granulate. 
  Posterior 
  tarsi 
  hardly 
  

   longer 
  than 
  their 
  tibiae, 
  their 
  basal 
  joint 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   following 
  united. 
  Length, 
  2*5 
  mm. 
  

  

  (J. 
  Agreeing 
  in 
  all 
  respects 
  with 
  the 
  female. 
  Antennae 
  testaceous, 
  

   dusky 
  toward 
  apex; 
  iJedicel 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  its 
  greatest 
  width; 
  

   funicle 
  1 
  over 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  its 
  greatest 
  width, 
  3 
  hardly 
  shorter 
  

   than 
  1 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  2, 
  4-9 
  one 
  -half 
  longer 
  than 
  wide. 
  

  

  Described 
  from 
  two 
  females, 
  two 
  males, 
  bred 
  from 
  eggs 
  

   of 
  an 
  Orthopteron 
  on 
  leaf, 
  Freetown, 
  Sierra 
  Leone, 
  West 
  

   Africa, 
  1915 
  {A. 
  W. 
  Bacot). 
  

  

  Type 
  and 
  cotypes 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  At 
  once 
  differing 
  from 
  africana 
  in 
  lacking 
  the 
  median 
  

   groove 
  of 
  the 
  scutum. 
  Of 
  the 
  European 
  species 
  nearest 
  

   eurcpaea 
  Kieffer, 
  but 
  the 
  flagellar 
  joints 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  are 
  

   longer. 
  

  

  