Short-horned GrasHhoppcrfi frnin /■M'if Afrira. (;81 



middle. Pro<tcriial tubercle with the base slij^htly trans- 

 verse, obtusely conical. Mesosternal interspace scarcely 

 longer than broad. Metasternal interspace trapezoidal, as 

 long as the basal width. Elytra extending scarcely beyond 

 the hind knees. 



General coloration flavescent. The margins of the frontal 

 ridge, the lateral facial cariuse, the median keel of the pro- 

 notum, the lower margin of the lateral lobes, two oblique 

 stripes on the pleurje, and jill carinse of the hind femora are 

 yellow, shining. The sides of the fastigium, the three typical 

 fasciae on the head and pronotum, a black fascia along the 

 intci'ulnar area of the elytra, a row of 5— G spots along their 

 middle, and the hind tibiie below, black. Two round spots 

 on the face below the antennse, a broad oblique fascia 

 adjoining the lateral facial keel, a narrow postocular fascia 

 running below the black one and more obliquely than the 

 latter, several round spots in the hind part of the cheeks, a 

 pair of spots on the pronotal disc between the second and 

 thii'd sulcus, two more spots between the same sulci on the 

 lateral lobes, two or three spots along the hind margin of 

 the latter, transverse rows of spots along the hind margins 

 of all tergites, as well as less regular spots and dots on all the 

 legs, and the underside, dark violaceous. Wings faintly 

 violaceous. 



(^ (paratype). Cerci scarcely longer than the supra-anal 

 plate, distinctly laterally compressed at the base, narrowed 

 and distinctly incurved towards the apex. 



2 (type). cJ (paratype). 

 mm. mm. 



Length of body 28 20 



,, pronotum 7*5 5 



„ elytra 22 18 



„ bind femora. ... 15 11 



Described from 4 ? ? and 1 c? taken at Kagugema, 

 Kisumu, Kenya Colony, i. 1919 (F. W. Dry). 



The new species seems to be similar to C. regalis, Karny, 

 from the Zanzibar coast, known to me only by the meagre 

 description, but is undoubtedly different from it, since 

 C regalis is said to have the prosternal tubercle subacu- 

 minate, while it is very obtuse in C. guttaius ; the male cerci 

 of C regalis are described as straight ; and no mention is 

 made in the description of the violaceous spotting, Avhich 

 is very characteristic of C. guttatus ; and the carinic of the 

 externo-median area of the hind femora are black in C. regalis^ 

 while they are pale yellow in the new species. 



