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



XIIT. — Notes on the Family Hetrodidaj, loith a List of the 

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



The family Hetrodidse includes a number of rather large 

 spiny apterous Ortlioptera, a synopsis of which was published 

 by \h\ Karsch in 1887 in the ' Berliner entomologische 

 Zeitschrit't,' 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 

 Ej)hippigerida3 instead of to the Hetrodida^. 



Tlie synonymy of the true Hetrodidee 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 ; 

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

 genus. 



List of described Sjjecies of Hetrodidse. 



Family Hetrodidae. 



Subfamily Hetbobinm. 



Heteodes, Fischer de Waldheim (1833) . 



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

 Asia Minor. 



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

 Hetrodes pupa et spinulostis, F. de W. Orth. lioss. 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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