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who has done much for the investigation of the fauna of the 

 southern zone of Kussia, that I take the pleasure of naming this 

 species. 



Callimenus brauneri, Shug., n. sp.* 



? . Tota splendens. Pronotum postice dilataturn, fortius emargi- 

 natum, disco postice supra utrinque plicis 4 (1 magna, 1 parva). Lobi 

 mesosternales latitudine vix vel haud longiores, apice magis acuminati ; 

 lobi metasternales angusti, latitudine longiores, subparalleli, apice ipso 

 subacuti. Abdomen dorso utrinque plica 1 magna. Cerci $ conici, 

 acuminati. Lamina subgenitalis 2 rotundata, apice excisa. Pronoti 

 lobi deflexi lseves. 



$ colore non differt a $ . Cerci cylindrici, rotundati. Lamina 

 subgenitalis margine subrecto, integro, bicarinata. 



Ciscaucasia septentr. districtus Velikoknjazbeskeusis provincite 

 Exercitus Donensis (specimen unicum ? mihi ab A. A. Brauner dona- 

 tum et ei dedicatum) ; districtus Rostov-Donensis ejusdem provincire. 

 Donensis (specimen unicum $ mihi a Dom. Sarandinaki donatum). 

 ( $ , ? in coll. mea.) 



Callimenus brauneri, Shug., is generally related to C. mon- 

 tandoni, Burr, for which I at first mistook it (the female of that 

 species was at that time unknown to me, vid. inf.). But Mr. 

 Malcolm Burr, to whom I submitted my specimen for examina- 

 tion, pointed out to me the characters which distinguished my 

 species from C. montandoni. 



C. brauneri is distinguished from its congeners by the shining 

 metallic colour of the whole body. The head is black, with a 

 dirty brown shade on the frons, cheeks, and mouth-parts ; the 

 pronotum is rugose, with brown markings, and behind with a 

 rather deep (up to 1*5 mm.) triangular incision, and four tuber- 

 cular folds on the slightly swollen posterior portion, of which 

 the middle pair is large and the outer pair small, and side flaps 

 smooth, slightly compressed anteriorly, coffee-brown, with black- 

 marked impressed spots in the general red-bronze sheen. The 

 lower part of the side flaps is almost straight, rounded posteriorly 

 and slightly reflexed, together with the corners of the pronotum. 

 The lobes of the mesosternum bright yellowish brown, slightly 



* In my article, " A Few Notes on Orthoptera " (Rev. Russe d'Ent. vi. 

 p. 22 (1906)), this species is referred to under the name of Callimenus 

 restrictus, F. de W. This species was so insufficiently described by Fischer 

 de Waldheim that we may safely regard it as a nomen nudum. 



f Differentia latitudinis pronoti antice et postice fere 4 mm. 



