. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Descriptions of New or Little-known Orthoptera. 413 border, the margin itself being narrowly white to a little beyond the end of the humeral ridge; the tegmina reach the fore border of the fifth abdominal segment, the wings being much shorter, and fall quite vertically, the venae radiales forming a kind of ridge along which are situated two triangular, medium-sized, white patches, the first above the nervure, the other below, but both abutting on it. On the. FIG. 2.—Shortridgea miranda. $ . abdomen ar
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Descriptions of New or Little-known Orthoptera. 413 border, the margin itself being narrowly white to a little beyond the end of the humeral ridge; the tegmina reach the fore border of the fifth abdominal segment, the wings being much shorter, and fall quite vertically, the venae radiales forming a kind of ridge along which are situated two triangular, medium-sized, white patches, the first above the nervure, the other below, but both abutting on it. On the. FIG. 2.—Shortridgea miranda. $ . abdomen are faint traces of two or three rows of silvery patches almost obliterated in my only example. Femora not distinctly tuberculate. Length of body 89 mm., of pvouotuin 44 mm.; greatest width of prouotum 29 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. Johns). <J and ? . Gr. A. Shortridge. Zululand (Eshome) $ . A. J. T. Janse. One wonders at this magnificent insect having escaped the attention of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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