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Oxyophthalma gracila Saussure. 



1861. Oxyophthalmus gracilis Saussure, A.nn. Soc. Ent. France (4), I, 

 p. 470. 



One male; Bodele, Tug Terfa, Somaliland, August 20, 1894. 



As far as it i? possible to judge from Saussure' s description and 

 figure, this specimen is identical with his gracilis, except that in the 

 specimen before rae the eyes are not so mammillate as in his figure. 



Oxypila annulata Serville. 



ISSl. Oxypila annulata Serville, Rev. Orthopt., p. 23. 



Four specimens, one male, three females (one immature) ; 

 Sheikh Husein (3) and Diibuli (1), Gallaland, September 16 and 

 October 6, 1894. 

 Pseudocreobotra amarae n. sp. 



Type, female; headwaters of the Burga river, near Dagugi, 

 country of the Amara, western Gallaland, April 24, 1895. 



This species is related to P. tmhlbergii Stal from Zanzibar, but 

 it is larger and differs in the form and comparative size of the 

 pronotum. 



Size rather large. Head transverse; the vertex prolonged into 

 a shallowly bifid peduncle; ocelli very large and prominent; clypeus 

 and labrum carinate, the former triangularly produced into falcate 

 extensions; eyes very ])rominent, bluntly acuminate, each flanked 

 •on the posterior margin by a blunt tubercle. Pronotum with two 

 lateral and one posterior prominent rounded lobe.?, the anterior 

 margin being broadly rounded; the central section heavily bossed 

 forming four tubercles, the large anterior one being considerably 

 cristate; the lateral lobes thin, coriaceous and ascending. Tegmina 

 long and moderately broad, central and basal sections opaque, 

 apical section hyaline. Anterior coxse finely scal)rous, the lower 

 margin with both large and small spines to the number of 6 or 7; 

 femora bearing four spines on the exlernal margin, each spine 

 being thick and heavy at the base, the tip being constricted and 

 sub-uugiculate, the internal margin with nine .spines, the second, 

 third and fifth being reduced in size; metatarsi superiorly lamel- 

 late, the external margin sul)pectinate, the internal margin with 

 fourteen spines increasing in size from the proximal extremity. 

 ^Median and posterior limbs rather slender, the femora with apical 

 rotundate dilations on the posterior margin. Abdomen broad and 

 heavy, each segment with a lateral angular production. Sub- 



