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rounded above, a little elevated in front and somewhat more posteriorly, without lateral carinas. 

 Prosternum with two filiform spines; sternal lobes acute. Elytra short, squamiform, attenuate towards 

 the posterior extreme angle, covering the basal two thirds of the abdomen in the tf, shorter and flat 

 in the Q • Wings absent. Legs stout, anterior coxae spined, anterior femora sulcate ventrally, armed on 

 the inner carina with six or eight small spines; hind legs more strongly spined; foramini closed; hind 

 femora but little longer than the abdomen, with the inferior carina spiny and shorter than the corres- 

 ponding tibiae, these quadangular, with spines on all the carinas, but more numerous on the posterioi 

 ones. Abdomen stout and short; infraanal plate with stylets; ovipositor ensiform. » 



Type. — Barbitistes baetica, Rambur. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Western Europe, Africa. 



i. A. Baetica, Rambur, Faune Andal. Vol. 2. p. S4, pi. 3, f. 1, 2 (i83g) Andalusia, Western Europe, 

 (Barbitistes). — Plate I, Fig. 6. Algeria. Tunis. 



2. Genus CALLIPHONA, Krauss 



Calliphona. Krauss, Zool. Anz. Vol. i5, p. 169 (1892); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth. Vol. 2, p. 219 (1906). 



Characters. (Original after the author.) -- « Locustae de Geer affine, differt fastigio verticis 

 articulo primo antennarum latiore, antice subdilatato, pronoto rugoso, pone medium carinis lateribus 

 distinctis instructo, lobis deflexis sub angulo recto insertis, angulo humerali indistincto, alis regulariter 

 fusco-tessellatis, segmento anali tf maximo, deorsum curvato. ovipositore rectissimo. » 



Type. — Calliphrona hoenigi, Krauss. 



Geographical distribution of species. — Europe. 



1. C. alluaudi, Krauss. Actas Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. Vol. 22, p. 5o (i8g3). Canaries. 



2. C. koenigi, Krauss, Zool. Anz. Vol. i5, p. 170 (1892). Tenerife. 



3. Genus GLYPHONOTUS, Redtenbacher 



Glyphonotus. Redtenbacher, Wien. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 8, p. 3i (1889); Kirby. Syn. Cat. Orth. Vol. 2, 

 p. 220 (1906). 



Characters. — In this genus the vertex of the head is scarcely broader than the basal segment 

 of the antennas. The pronotum is deeply sulcate transversely, as in some species of the genus Onconotus, 

 the lateral carinas acute anteriorly, posteriorly rounded. Organs of flight fully developed. Hind tibiae 

 armed with an apical spine above on each side. Ovipositor gently curved upwardes and long, more than 

 two times as long as the hind femora. 



Type. — Locusta thoracica, Fischer von Waldheim. 



Geographical distribution of species. — - Asia. 



1. G. thoracicus, Fischer von Waldheim, Orth. Ross. p. i5o, pi. 21, f. 5 Alatau, Turcomania. Tur- 

 (1846) (Locusta). kestan, Heptapotamia. 



