South African Grasshoppers. ' 381 



6 (type). 5 (paratype). 



nmi. mm. 



Length of body IG 20-5 



head 3 375 



„ prouotuui .... 3*5 4'5 



„ elytra 14 18 



„ hind femur . . H 14 



The type is from Salisbury, Maslionaland, 11. xi. 1905 

 (G. A. K. Marshall) ; four other paratypic males and two 

 females are from the same locality ; one female from 

 Pretoria, iv. 1921 {J. C. Fuure) ; one female from Morico, 

 Transvaal, i. 1918. 



The dimensions of the female given above are taken 

 from the specimen labelled by I. Bolivar as a cotype of 

 Fh. man'halli, Bol. (undescribed). This specimen and some 

 others of the series are not so vividly coloured as the type ; 

 the black fascite on the head and prouotum may be very 

 little developed or altogether wanting. The inside of the 

 hind femora is sometimes orange-red. Tiie interulnar area 

 in the male is sometimes less regularly reticulated and with 

 au indication of a false vein. 



6. Phorenula gracilis, sp. n. 



^ . Smaller than any other known species. Antennae 

 extending a little beyond the hind margin of the prouotum. 

 Frontal ridge flat, with very obtuse margins, feebly narrowed 

 at the fastigium, with rather large but sparse puncturation. 

 Fastigium of the vertex oval, with the apex somewhat acute, 

 feebly impressed, with a very feeble, arched, transverse sul- 

 cus ; its margins convergent behind and emitting irregular 

 lateral occipital keels; median keel beginning behind the 

 arched sulcus and prolonged on to the occiput, but not 

 reaching the prouotum ; temporal foveolaa fairly well de- 

 veloped, rotundato-rhomboidal, narrowed anteriorly and 

 posteriorly. Pronotum neither compressed laterally nor 

 constricted ; median keel strongly raised, cut by the typical 

 sulcus just before the middle; lateral keels well developed, 

 distinctly convergent bet\Acen the fore margin and the lirst 

 sulcus and strongly divergent behind that sulcus, almost 

 reaching the hind margin ; actual lateral margins of the 

 ])ronotal disc indicated less distinctly than in Ph. mai'shalli, 

 Uvar. ; fore margin of the pronotum rounded ; hind angle 

 straight ; the surface of the disc neither rugulose nor 

 punctured, smooth but not shining ; lateral lobes coarsely 

 punctured and rugulose. Elytra extending a little beyond 



