1901.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 285 



Size large. Head viewed facially much bi'oadcr than deep, the 

 occiput arcuate; eyes prominent; clypeus bearing a transverse 

 ridge. Pronotum four times as long as its greatest width; the 

 lateral margins dentate anterior to the dilation, denticulate poste- 

 rior to the same; anterior margin somewhat produced, rounded; 

 posterior margin truncate, the angles obliquely trimmed; median 

 carina visible on the shaft, replaced by a sulcus on the collar. 

 Anteiior coxaj with the lower margin dentate, the other margins 

 denticulate; femora rather elongate, five spines on the external 

 margin, fifteen spines anteriorly and eleven to twelve denticules 

 posteriorly on the internal, the superior margin with a very slight 

 concavity; tibire Avith nine spines on the external margin with a 

 basal diastema, fourteen on the internal. Median and posterior 

 pair of limbs very slender and light; tibito with the internal mar- 

 gins spined; metatarsus of the posterior limbs very much longer 

 than the other tarsal joints, and closely spined beloAv. Abdomen 

 with lateral elongate crescentic convolutions. Supraanal plate 

 elongate, lanceolate, the apex narrowly rounded, centrally keeled, 

 the whole shorter than the anterior coxfe. 



General color wood brown,'* sprinkled and finely mottled with 

 umber, the ground tint being purest on the anterior limbs. Eyes 

 walnut brown, mottled with blackish. Anal region and lower 

 surface of abdomen tinged with ochraceous. 



Co in pa ra tive Measurem ents. 



$ media. $ spinigera 

 (from Schulthess). 



107.5 mm. 113 mm. 

 30.5 " 30 



7 " 6.3 " 



12.5 " 20 



. 19.5 " 

 24 " 

 '. 35.75 " 



Length of body, 

 Length of pronotum, . 

 Greatest width of pronotum 

 Length of supraanal plate. 

 Length of anterior cox^e, . 

 Length of anterior femoi'a. 

 Length of posterior femora. 



Paraspliendale minor Schulthess. 



1898. Paraspliendale viinor Schulthess-Schindler, Aou. Mup. Civ. 

 Geneva, XXXIX, p. 177. 



Two females, one immature; Sheikh Husein and Tulu, Galla- 

 land, September 29 and November 22, 1894. 



^^ Ridgway's Nomenclature. 



