108 James A. G. Rehn: On some African Mantidae and Phasmidae 



two-thirds the tibial length. Median and caudal limbs very similar, 

 femora robust, subdepressed. 



General color wood brown, strongly wasb.ed, blotched and 

 punctate with seal brown. Head finely punctulate, the eyes 

 witb. the general true russet, a narrow transverse bar of seal brown 

 Crossing the facial shield and meso-cephalic portion of the eyes; 

 antennae russet, dashened proximad. Pronotum strongly macu- 

 late and punctate with seal brown. Tegmina with the general 

 color weale seal brown, brokenly and irregularly lineate-maculate 

 with russet along the veries, stigma same the apical margin weably 

 russet. Wings infumate witb seal brown, the cross-ains clear 

 hyaline in the radiate field, less clear and suffused on the remainder. 

 Ventral surface almost uniform wood brown inclined toward 

 russet. Cephalic coxae paucipunctulate laterad, unicolorous on 

 the internal face; cephalic femora strongly punctato-vermiculate 

 with seal brown on the external face, internal face with a decided 

 blotch of seal brown in the unguinal groove and a fainter, broken 

 medio-longitudinal line of the same on the distal half spines with 

 their distal halves seal brown; cephalic tibiae and greater portion 

 of cephahc tarsi punctate with seal brown, the spines as on the 

 femora. Median and caudal linels punctate strongly (dorsad) or 

 weakly (ventrad) with seal brown, the puncta of the dorsal sur- 

 face resolving themselves into very po^rly defined annuli. 



Measurements. 



Length of body 36 mm. 



Length of pronotum 8 ,, 



Greatest width of pronotum 6 ,, 



Length of tegmen 21,5 ,, 



Greatest width of tegmen 8 ,, 



Length of cephalic femur 9,8 ,, 



Length of median femur 9 ,, 



Length of caudal femur 9 ,, 



The type is unique. 



Theopompa Stäl. 

 Theopompa aurivillii Sjöstedt. 



1900. Theopompa aurivillii Sjöstedt, Bihang tili K. Svenska 

 Akad. Hand, XXV, 4 : 6, p. 3, figg. 3—5. [Mapanga, Came- 

 roon.] Cameroon. (Conradt.) One male. 



Tarachodes Burmeister. 

 Tarachodes sancta (Saussure). 



1871. Ch[iropus] sancta Saussure, Melanges Orthoptero- 



logiques, III. Suppl., p. 393. [Natal.] 



Umtali, Rhodesia. (Bodong.) One male. 



This specimen agrees fully with Saussures description of the 

 species, having the cephalic femora below with ,,a little black at 



