On South African Grasshopjiers. 530 



LXn. — On some ueiv or little-Liioicn South African Gruss- 

 hojjpcrs of the Sahfauiily Acridiiue {Orthoj/lera). By 

 B. P. UvAuov, K.E.S., Assistant Entomologist, Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



This is the third ()aper of the series*, based on the collectiou 

 sent to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology by the Division 

 of Entomology, Pretoria, and by Prof, J. C. Faure. The 

 types i)f all species described are in the British Museum, and 

 paratypes |)reserved in the collections of the said Division 

 and of the Transvaal University College. 



I see no reason whatever to call the subfamily Truxalinte, 

 as the name Truxalis is not used now, being a pure synonym 

 of Acrida. 



1. Leva recta, Karuy. 



1910. Paragymnobothrus rectus, Karuy, Dcnkschr. Medic.-NatiU'w. 



Ges. Jena, xvi. Bd. ; L. Schultzo, Zool. Sc Antlir. Ergebu. 



Keise in \V. & Z. Siidafrika, Bd. iv., Lief, i., Iiisecta, p. 80. 



no. 115. 

 1902. Catimtops vittata, Ivliiby, Traus. Eut. Soc. Loudon, p. 10(5. 



no. Ill (ad partim). 



It is quite obvious from Kainy's description of Para- 

 gymnobothrus rectus, which should be considered as the 

 type-species of the genus, that the latter belongs not to the 

 section Phlneobse, where I. Bolivar (Trab. Mus. Nac. Madrid, 

 ser. Zool., No. 20, p. 73, 1914) has placed it, but to the 

 Chrysochraontes (I. Bolivar, I.e. p. 61), since the elytra in 

 Paragymnobothrus rectus have the scapular area dilated 

 (" area costali et pr.x'costali in utroque se.xu sat dilatatis,'"" 

 Karny, /. c). The study of the specimeus now before me, 

 which agree perfectly with Karny's description and un- 

 doubtedly belong to his P. rectus, shows also that the lower 

 margin of the lateral lobes of pronotum is strongly sinuate, 

 which again indicates tiiat the genus belongs to Chryso- 

 chraontes. In this section it comes near to Leva, Bob, 

 having the temporal foveoho only incom[)letely marginated 

 from below, and, in fact, the relationship of Paruyymno- 

 bothrus to Leva is so close that I think it would be quite 

 correct to unite them, the more so that, in the two more new 

 Scnith African species described below, the relationship to 

 the Indian representatives of the genus Leva is still closer 

 th.iu in Leva recta, Karny. 



. * Sec Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) viii. pp. 369-392and ix. pp. 99-113. 



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