posticee lutca ; alee anticts cinereee, abdomine paullo longiores, guttis 

 plurimis e venis nigro nebulosis ; alee posticce purpureo-rufte, apud 

 costam nigricantes. 



Female. Ferruginous, stout. Head short, smooth, a spot on the hind 

 part of the vertex, sides and front whitish ; tip of the vertex depressed, 

 elongate and truncate-conical ; front erect, thinly punctured; keels slight, 

 slightly diverging ; inner keels not extending to the fore border. Eyes 

 piceous, subelliptical, much rounded on the hind side. Prothorax slightly 

 tuberculate, with some whitish marks on each side; disk nearly flat, with 

 three slight keels ; transverse impressed lines distinct; fore border almost 

 straight ; sides slightly rounded ; hind border much rounded. Prosternal 

 spine pale testaceous, short, transverse, rounded, its breadth about twice 

 its thickness. Four anterior legs whitish, with blackish marks. Hind 

 femora very broad, a little shorter than the abdomen, whitish and with 

 blackish marks on the outer side, black and with a bright luteous apical 

 band on the inner side ; hind tibia) bright luteous, shorter than the hind 

 femora, their spines with black tips ; hind tarsi luteous. Fore wings 

 cinereous, a little longer than the abdomen, with numerous dots formed 

 by black-clouded veins; veins elsewhere tawny. Hind wings deep 

 purplish red, blackish and with black veins along the costa. Length of the 

 body 16 lines; expansion of the fore wings 27 lines. 



a. Zoolu. Presented by G. F. Angas, Esq. 



35. CALOPTENUS H.EMATOPUS. 



Gryllus (Locusta) hsematopus, Linn. Mus. Ludov. 143; Syst. Nat. ii. 700 

 Gryllus haematopus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 52 Acridium rubripes, 

 Deg. Ins. iii. 490, pi. 40, f. 10 Acrydium tuberculatum, Pal. Beauv. 

 Ins. Acridium ha?matopum, Oliv. Enc. Meth. vi. 219 Calliptamus 

 hasmatopus, Serv. Hist. Orth. 688. Caloptenus hasmatopus, Burnt. 

 Handb. Ent. ii. 639. 



a. Cape. From Mr. Vigors' collection. 



b. Cape. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



c. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



d. South Africa. Presented by E. Trimen, Esq. 



e. Cape. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 

 /. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Eichardson. 



36. CALOPTENCS SAPHIRIPES. 



Calliptamus saphiripes, Serv. Hist. Orth. 690, pi. 14, f. 13. 

 Cape. 



37. CALOPTENUS MELA.NOPUS. 

 melanopus, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 640. 



Cape. 



38. CALOPTENUS PULCHRIPES. 

 pulchripes, Schaum, Monats. Berl. Acad. 1853, 779. 

 Mozambique. 



