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ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK (SERIES NOVA) TOM. XXIV. 1971. Nr. 29. The Tetricidae (Orthoptera) of the Palaearctic Fauna By Dr. H. Steinmann Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest Comparatively little is known about tbe geographic distribution and Zoogeographie layout of Tetricidae. This family is circumtropical in distribution and the number of species proceeding to north and south of the Equator gradually decreases. The largest number of species occur in the Oriental region where some 50 per cent of the species is found (

STEINMANN, 1970). Hereunder I wish to present the Tetricids of the Palaearctic fauna in a concise list, with this the zoogeographical layout of the Tetricidae is very nearly complete. Owing to lack of catalogues a survey of the species is possible only through extensive gathering of literary data. The last catalogue on this family was published some 60 years ago in which a mere 25 per cent of the nowadays known species was listed, thus I thought right to compile my present list after the fashion of catalogues grouping the species according to Zoogeographie principles. The first part appeared in Fol. Ent. Hung.

, 15: 503-326 giving the list of species from the Ethiopian region excluding taxa from Madagascar, but including the species of the Palaearctic North Africa. The present paper is complement to the work of JOHNSTON: "Annotated Catalogue of African Grasshoppers" published in 1956 from which the species of family Tetricidae were left out. The only explanation which can be offered is that the comparatively earlier descriptive works were hardly assessed except GÜNTHER'

s (1935-1941) discussing Fol. Ent. Hung., XXIV. 1971. 323