1911.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 319 



RECORDS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF AFRICAN MANTIDJE AND PHASMIDJE 



(ORTHOPTERA). 



BY JAMES A. G. REHN. 



The material on which the following notes were based is chiefly 

 from Harrar, Abyssinia, the Kikuyu Escarpment and Mombasa, 

 British East Africa, and Mossamedes, Angola. Aside from the Mom- 

 basa series which belongs to the Hebard Collection, the material is 

 almost entirely contained in the Academy collection. In addition - 

 to data on the material from the localities given above, supplementary 

 notes are here given on certain Northeast African Mantidse previously 

 reported upon in these Proceedings. 1 



The author wishes to thank Mr. Morgan Hebard for the opportunity 

 to examine the small but interesting Mombasa series from his collec- 

 tion. 



MANTIDuSE. 

 ORTHODERIN.E. 

 EL.EA St&l. 

 Elaea marchali (Reiche and Fairmaire). 



1847. E[remiaphila] marchali Reiche and Fairmaire, in Ferret and Galinier, 

 Voy. en Abyssinie, III, p. 424, Zool., pi. 27, fig. 5. [Locality implied: 

 Abyssinia.] 



Harrar, Abyssinia. One female. 



TARACHODES Burmeister. 



Tarachodes karschii Werner. 



1907. Tarachodes Karschii Werner, Sitzungsb. K. Akad. Wissensch., Wien, 

 Math.-nat. KL, CXVI, Heft II, Abt. I, p. 212. [Bondei and Dar-es- 

 Salaam, German East Africa; coast of German East Africa; Lake 

 Tanganyika.] 



Kikuyu Escarpment, British East Africa. Two males. 



These specimens apparently are not separable from the typical 

 material of the species. It might be mentioned that the spines on 

 the internal face of the cephalic femora and tibiae are black to their 

 bases, instead of black-tipped as are the external spines on the same 

 limbs. 



1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, pp. 276-288. 



