South African rasshoppers. 1 1 1 



iiof unlike the genus Chrotogonus, but tlie position of the 

 ocelli and the shape of the prosternnni dchar it from the 

 section Chrutogoni. The armature of the pronotum and 

 the shape of the sternum seem to indicate its relatioiislii[) to 

 the section Phymatei, hut, again, the steinum has a well- 

 (U'vehjped transverse sulens at the fore margin, which is not 

 the case in Fhynuitei. It seems, therefore, that a special 

 section sliould be establislied for this genus, but I prefer to 

 abstain from erecting it, since this might be better done in 

 a revision of the whole subfamily. In any case, the new 

 genus is so peculiar in all its characters tliat it may be easily' 

 recognised from the description without an exact indication 

 of its systematic position. 



6. Phymella capensis, sp. u. (Fig. 4.) 



J. General coloration yellowish green, with grey design. 

 Antennae brown, with two basal joints pale. Face with four 

 pale callous tubercles, placed in an arched transverse line 

 just below the median ocellus ; margins of the frontal ridge 

 with thi'ee pairs of dark olive-green streaks in the lower 

 j)art. Fastigium of the vertex blackish, with yellowish 

 margins; vertex just behind the transverse sulcus with a 

 rather large, laterally compressed tubercle, obtusely tri- 

 angular in profile, and with two oblong callosities laterally ; 

 between the eyes there is another smaller median tubercle, 

 and sideways and a little behind it a pair of more obliquely 

 ])laccd compressed tubercles, followed by another pair of 

 quite small rounded tubercles nearer to the eyes ; all these 

 tubercles are blackish. Pronotum ealloso-rugulose through- 

 out ; only the second and third transverse sulci are well 

 developed and deep, while the first is but slightly indicated 

 in the middle of the disc ; median keel on the prozoua un- 

 developed, replaced by three l)lackish tubercles, the first of 

 which is larger than the two others; metazona much shorter 

 thau the prozona, with coarse, though not dense, blackish 

 punctures, and with a low straigjit median keel terminated 

 behind by a laterally compressed blackish tubercle ; the 

 disc with a pair of high, strongly laterally compressed, 

 blttckish teeth just before the second sulcus and rather near 

 the middle line ; a pair of small conical tubercles at the 

 same distance from each other between the second and 

 the third sulcus, and a pair of large, laterally compressed, 

 obtusely triangular teeth on the sides of the disc, directed 

 outwardly ; a pair of laterally compressed blackish tubercles 

 on the hind outer angles of the metazona ; the hind margin 



