. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 150 Annals of the South African Museum. any spines, except two sharply pointed apical ones, situated side by side close to each other and directed straight backwards. The armature of the metatarsus excludes from comparison all the genera of the Northern Hemisphere and places the genus without any doubt with the Macropathini. Among these, Pleioplectron and Neonetus only could be mistaken for Speleiacris, but they differ by. Fig. 25.—Speleiacris tabulae (types). Above : Hind tarsus, seen obliquely from
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 150 Annals of the South African Museum. any spines, except two sharply pointed apical ones, situated side by side close to each other and directed straight backwards. The armature of the metatarsus excludes from comparison all the genera of the Northern Hemisphere and places the genus without any doubt with the Macropathini. Among these, Pleioplectron and Neonetus only could be mistaken for Speleiacris, but they differ by. Fig. 25.—Speleiacris tabulae (types). Above : Hind tarsus, seen obliquely from above. Middle : Middle part of hind tibia. Right below: Middle knee. Below middle : Left ^ cercus in dorsal view. Left below: Ovipositor. The two last figures less magnified than the others, and the last still less than the preceding. the number and arrangement of the apical spines of fore and middle tibiae, as has already been pointed out above. Of this genus only one species is at present known, viz. : Speleiacris tabulae Peringuey.* 1 ^ (type), Table Mountain, K. H. Barnard ; 1 ^ (paratype). Table Mountain, Grottoes, F. Werts, 1909 ; 1 ? (allotype). Cape Town, Table Mountain, in cave 100 ft. below surface, E. Marloth, December 1900 ; 1 ? (paratype). Table Mountain, K. H. Barnard. Not only is the armature of the legs (as described above for the genus) very remarkable, but also the sexual characters. These have already been described by Peringuey in some detail. The ^ cerci are striking at a glance by the lobes, shaped like the teeth of a saw, along their inner edges, which I figure again somewhat more enlarged * See additional notes by Dr. A. J. Hesse, p. 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. Cape Town : The Museum
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