. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the South African Gryllacridae. 81 to 2 dark-tipped spinelets in distal half, quite unarmed on the outside. The left middle femur outside with 1 spinelet close before the knee, inside with one at the same place and, moreover, with a similar one near base. Eight middle femur inside with 4 rather long spines in basal two-thirds, outside with 3 in distal half (the first being placed in the middle of femur). Hind femora with 4 on the outer margin and 4 to 7 spinelets on the inner margin bel
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the South African Gryllacridae. 81 to 2 dark-tipped spinelets in distal half, quite unarmed on the outside. The left middle femur outside with 1 spinelet close before the knee, inside with one at the same place and, moreover, with a similar one near base. Eight middle femur inside with 4 rather long spines in basal two-thirds, outside with 3 in distal half (the first being placed in the middle of femur). Hind femora with 4 on the outer margin and 4 to 7 spinelets on the inner margin below, the outer much longer and stronger than the inner ones ; the spines beginning at the middle of the femur or a little before it, but never as far basally as in canus. Fore tibiae above on the inside with 3 long spines, increasing in length distally; below outside with 3, inside with but 1 spine close before the apex (the apical spines being not included in these numbers). Middle tibiae spined exactly as in canus. Hind tibiae below with a single spine just before the apex, above outside with 4 spines (right leg). Fig. 2.—Maxentius kuhlgatzi. End of (^ abdomen in dorsal and lateral view. or 7 (left leg), the first of these in the latter case very small, and hardly distinguishable with certainty ; above inside with 6 spines on either tibia ; bristles quite as in canus. Abdomen.—Second and third tergite laterally, each with an oblique costula, finely denticulate under the microscope (as in the other species, compare fig. 1). The surface before it and the pleurae are smooth as in canus. Ninth tergite strongly produced backwards in the middle, much longer than the eighth, obtuse-angularly excised in the middle of hind margin (fig. 2). In canus, too, this tergite is decidedly longer than the eighth, though somewhat less strongly pro- duced than in kuhlgatzi, and the median excision of hind margin is also deeper. The two spines of tenth ^ tergite are placed quite close together
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