. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the South African Gryllacridae. 91 margin. The right hind leg is without doubt a regenerate, being much shorter and feebler than the left, the femur spineless throughout. Left hind tibia cylindrical and spineless in basal third, flattened above in middle third, and with 6 very small, black-tipped spinelets on either side above. The right hind tibia is cylindrical throughout, showing only 1 very small spinelet on either side near the middle above; its apical spurs too are much less de- /
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the South African Gryllacridae. 91 margin. The right hind leg is without doubt a regenerate, being much shorter and feebler than the left, the femur spineless throughout. Left hind tibia cylindrical and spineless in basal third, flattened above in middle third, and with 6 very small, black-tipped spinelets on either side above. The right hind tibia is cylindrical throughout, showing only 1 very small spinelet on either side near the middle above; its apical spurs too are much less de- /^^ q^ veloped than on the left tibia. ' ? subgenital plate (fig. 6) trans- Fig. Q.—Eremus obtusus, $. Apex of versely rectangular, with the sides ovipositor (left) and subgenital plate very slightly converging distally, hind margin with a very slight obtusangular emargination in the middle, slightly arcuate on either side. Ovipositor slightly curved at base only, thence quite straight, very wide (high), rounded off at apex. At once easily distinguishable from all the other Eremus species ; agreeing in most characters with Ametroides peringueyi (GJ-riffini), but distinctly differing from it by the more numerous spines on fore and middle tibiae. Eremus sphinx (Gerstaecker). Compare Griffini (141), loc. cit., p. 130. 1 cJ (det. Griffini), Cape Town, S. 152 ; 1 <S (det. Karny), no locality ; 1 ^ (det. Karny), Cape Town ; 1 ^ (det. Karny), Cape Town, Barnard, 1914; 1 ? (det. Griffini), Stel-. lenbosch, L. Peringuey, 1897 ; 1 ? (det. Karny), Cape Town, 1893 ; 1 ? (det. Karny), Ceres Div., Matroosberg, 4500 ft. ; 1 ? (det. Karny), Cape Town, Master Peringuey, 1909. As a completion of Griffini's ^ „ „ ,. ., _ ^ detailed description (loc. cit.), Fig. 7.—Eremus sphinx. Above: End of (^ . ^ p . i abdomen in dorsal, lateral, and ventral J- gl^^ here figures ot the view. Below: Apex of ovipositor and sexual characters of both sexes $ subgenital plate. All figures of the „ -^ ,
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