South African Grasshoppers. 547 



(G. A. K. Marshall) ; five paratypes from Orange River 

 Colony (G. E. H. B. Hamilton). 



The si)ecies is rather variable in its coloration, as is the 

 ease with most species of yEolopus, and I have purposely 

 described as paratype a s|)ecimen diifering from the type in 

 coloration, but it is easily recognisable by the very broad 

 temporal foveohe with their lower margin more or less inter- 

 rupted by puneturation ; from A. thalassinus it may be 

 also separated by its much thicker head, broader pronotum, 

 and, especially, by the broad hind femora. There is in the 

 Oxford Museum a specimen of this species from Salisbury, 

 Mashonaland (G. A. K. Marshall) , named by I. Bolivar as 

 Epacrumia contortipes, Bol., evidently a manuscript name. 

 Some of paratypie specimens from Pretoria have the elytra 

 shorter than in the type and the head thicker ; they much 

 recall in their habitus a species of (Edaleus, but they do 

 not present any definite character by which they can be 

 separated from A. latus. 



An^olopus, gen. no v. 



Closely related to ^olopus. Antenna? rather thick, dis- 

 tinctly flattened throughout, very feebly thickened towards 

 the apex, in both sexes not reaching the hind angle of the 

 pronotum. Head distinctly reclinate. Frontal ridge sulcate 

 throughout or nearly so, with the margins thick, gradually 

 divergent downwards. Fastigium distinctly jjrominent before 

 the eyes, acutangular in the male, rectangular in the 

 female ; slightly sloping and impressed. Temporal foveolse 

 very strongly reclinate, almost vertical, scarcely visible from 

 above, trapezoidal, strongly narrowed anteriorly, twice as 

 long as the basal width, distinctly impressed, with margins 

 sharp, but not at all margined behind. Pronotum distinctly 

 constricted before the middle; median keel low, but distinct, 

 cut ijy the transverse sulcus far before the middle; lateral 

 keels in prozona developed, though sometimes very feeble, 

 strongly convergent towards the first transverse sulcus and 

 as strongly divergent behind it ; in metazona they are less 

 developed, often smooth and replaced by pale lines, not 

 reaching the hind margin ; hind angle straight or even acute, 

 with the apex not at all rounded ; lateral lobes as in ^olopus. 

 Mesosternal lobes transverse, with a transverse interspace. 

 Metasternal lobes separated in both sexes. Elytra quite like 

 those of yEolopus ; intercalate vein in the discoidal field 

 thick, apically nearer to the radial vein than to the ulnar; 

 interuluar area with two rows of cells, separated by a rather 



