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BLEPHAROPSIS Rehn. 



Blepharopsis mendica (Fabricius). 



1775. [Mantis] mendica Fabricius, Syst. Entom., p. 275. [Alexandria, 

 Egypt.] 



Gafsa, Tunis. One female. [Hebard Collection.] 



The distribution of this species in Africa is quite extensive, appar- 

 ently covering all of the northern third of the continent, as it has been 

 recorded from the Canaries, Senegambia, Tunis, Egypt, Nubia, Schoa, 

 Kordofan, Abyssinia and Somaliland. It also occurs in Syria and 

 Arabia. 



IDOLUM Saussure. 



Idolum diabolicum Saussure. 



1870. I[dolum] diabolicum Saussure, Mitth. Schw. Ent.'Gesell.^III^pp. 223. 

 [Africa.] 



German East Africa. One immature female. 



PHASMID^S. 



BACILLIN.E. ' 



XYLICA Karsch. 

 Xylica kikuyuensis n. sp. 



Type: 9 ; Kikuyu Escarpment, British East Africa. [Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., type No. 5,170.] 



Allied to X. abbreviata Redtenbacher from Ukami Mountains, German 

 East Africa, and caligulata Redtenbacher from Zanzibar, differing from 

 both in the peculiar development of the dorsal surface of the fifth 

 abdominal segment and the smaller size, also from abbreviata in the 

 shorter and more robust mesothorax, metathorax and limbs and from 

 caligulata in the simpler and more usual type of operculum. The 

 cephalic metatarsi show some indications of the cristation found in 

 caligulata, while the antennal length is the same as in abbreviata, 

 although the coloration of the latter is as found in kilimandjarica 

 Sjostedt, from which kikuyuensis can be immediately separated by 

 the form of the fifth abdominal segment and the longer antennae. 



Size medium; form fairly robust; surface granulose and rugulose. 

 Head distinctly longer than the prothorax, slightly longer than broad, 

 surface with numerous granular tubercles; cephalic horns two in 

 number, prominent, sharp, divergent; occipital margin laterally with 

 sulci separating decided trigonal elevations from the low median 



