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of apical claw) about two-fifths of the femoral length, moderately 

 compressed, armed on the external margin with eight spines on the 

 median and distal portions, on the internal margin with twelve 

 spines, increasing in length distad: cephalic tarsi somewhat longer 

 than the tibiae, the metatarsus equal to half of the tarsal length. 

 Median and cephalic limbs slender, the femora and tibiae moderately 

 compressed. 



General color cinnamon becoming mars brown on the tegmina; 

 pronotum mottled rather irregularly wth olive, the larger dorsal 

 tubercles and the marginal denticulations touched with the same; 

 region of the tegminal stigma clouded with Vandyke brown; wings 

 very strongly infumate (as usual in the genus) ; proximal abdominal 

 segments broadly margined dorso-caudad with shining seal brown; 

 cephalic coxae washed at the proximal extremity of the internal face, 

 along the lamellate ridge and around the insertion with seal brown, 

 distal extremity of the internal face with the usual bar very weak 

 seal brown and transverse in position, a narrow distal margining of 

 the same present; internal margin of cephalic tibiae with three poorly 

 defined oblique fasciae of seal brown. 



Measurements. 



mm. 



Length of body (minus apex of abdomen) 62. 



Length of pronotum 19. 5 



Greatest width of pronotum 4. 



Length of tegmen 44. 



Length of cephalic femur 15. 



Length of median femur 13. 



Length of caudal femur 17. 5 



The type of this species is unique. 



Family PHASMID^. 



SuTafamily CL.ITXJM:n-IN".^H]. 

 Genus GRATIDIA Stal. 



GRATIDIA PULCHRIPES, new species. 



Tijpe.—Msile; Luebo, Kongo. (D. W. Snyder.) [Cat. No. 14610, 

 U.S.N.M.] 



Related to G. Mhonotensis Sjostedt, insulsa, montana, and specijlca 

 Brunner and linea-alha Rehn, but differing from these as follows: 

 from hibonotensis in the sube^ual and straight (laterally viewed) 

 cerci, which also project considerably caudad of the anal segment, 

 in the less distinctly emarginate distal margin of the subgenital plate 

 and in the far greater size; from insulsa in the greater size and non- 

 carinate abdomen; from montana in the much longer limbs (cephalic 

 femur 31.5 instead of 25), although the general size is about the 



