1901.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 279 



?. — Size medium, robust. Head with vertex transverse, trun- 

 cate. Pronotum less than twice as long as the greatest width ; the 

 anterior margin rather broadly rounded, the posterior truncate 

 with the angles cut off, the lateral margins sinuate, spined 

 throughout their length, one large spine anteriorly; the dorsum 

 with two obsolete tubercles near the anterior margin, and six paired 

 tubercles placed equidistant from the sulcus to within about three 

 millimeters of the posterior margin. Tegmina and wings short 

 and undeveloped. Anterior limbs with the tibije very deep and 

 robust, the external margin bearing five large and ten small spines, 

 the internal bearing ten spines. Median and posterior limbs rather 

 heavy, hirsute; the femora rather angular. Al^domen with a 

 median ridge and each segmeni with four crescentic crenulations; 

 the median ridge on the four anterior segments lobulate posteriorly. 

 Cerci rather long, the terminal segment almost as long as the pre- 

 ceding two. 



General color above wood brown irregularly suffused with darker 

 bi'own, strongest on the abdomen, weakest on the anterior limbs. 

 Eyes intense brownish black. Clypeus, labrum and facial shield 

 barred as in the male, but not so distinctly. Below pale yellowish, 

 clouded with blackish on the abdomen, the prosternum with one 

 broad transverse blackish band. 



Measurements. 



Total length, 40 mm., 



Length 0^ body, 36.5 " 29 mm. 



Length of tegmina, 29 " 



Length of pronotum, 9.25 " 7.8 " 



Greatest width of pronotum, . . . 4.40 " 4.25 " 



Length of anterior tibite, .... 8 " 6.6 " 



Tarachodes schulthessi n. n. 



1895. Chiropaclca modesta Schulthess-Eecbberg, Zool. Jabrb., Syst., 



VIII, p. 69. 

 1898. Tlarachodes'] modesta Scbulthess-Scbindler, Arm. Mus. Civ. 



Genova, XXXIX, p. 173 (not of Gerstaecker, 1869). 



Two males; Sheikh Husein, Gallaland, September 24 and Octo- 

 ber 1, 1894. 



The name Tarachodes modesta was first used by Gerstaecker' 

 for a species of the genus from Zanzibar ; later Schulthess, in 



''ArcMv.f. Naturgesch., XXXV, p. 208. 



