NO. 1910. 



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TARACHODES PILOSIPES. new species. 



Type.—U&le; Lucbo, Kongo. (D. AY. Snyder.) [Cat. No. 14602, 

 U.S.N.M.] 



CloseI\' allied to T. dissimulator Wood-Mason * from Kamerun, 

 agreeing in general proportions and form, in the palo proximal 

 area on the tegmina and in the ])ilosity of certain ])ortions of the 

 bod}', but differing in the arcuate instead of truncate vertex, in 

 the nondenticulate cephalic coxa?, in the almost complete absence of 

 black from the internal faces of the cephalic coxa> and femora, in the 

 absence of blackish puncta caudad on the prosternum and also of a 

 distinct maculation on the metasternum and in the less clearly 

 defined proximal and completely absent distal pale areas 

 on the tegmina. 



Size rather large; form subdepressed ; limbs and ven- 

 tral surface pilose, this strongly marked on the median 

 antl caudal limbs. Head with the greatest depth con- 

 tained about one and one-fifth times in the greatest 

 width; face slightly concave; occiput moderately but 

 distinctly arcuate, the juxta- 

 ocular sulci well impressed; 

 ocelli moderately largo, placed 

 in a triangle ; facial shield with 

 the greatest depth contahied 

 one and two-thirds times in 

 the greatest width, dorsal 

 margin subtruncate mesad, 

 slightly oblique subtruncate 

 laterad, lateral margins sub- 

 parallel, ventral margin 

 slightly arcuato-emarginate, 

 surface of shield smooth ; an- 

 temiffi simple; eyes not pro- 

 jecting, their outline rounding into that of the head. Pronotum with 

 the greatest dorsal (supra-coxal) width contained slightl}- less than 

 twice in the length, the width at the cephalo-lateral angles very slightly 

 less than that of the supra-coxal region, that at the caudo-lateral 

 angles not more than four-fifths that of the widest portion; cephalic 

 margin strongly arcuate, slightly sinuate laterad, with a slight median 

 truncation, cephalo-lateral angles distinctly produced, angulate, lat- 

 eral margins slightly pilose, bi-undulate, narrower caudad of the coxal 

 insertion than cephalad of the same, caudo-lateral angles rounded, 

 caudal margin rather broadh* truncate mesad, obliquely truncate 

 laterad; surface of disk multimpressed, a more or less distinct medio- 



FIG. 1. 



rAKACHODES PILOSIPES. 

 TYPE. (X IJ.) 



Dorsal view of 



1 Jourii. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 51, pt. 2, p. 23. 



