in the Collection of the Deutschen Entomologischen Mioseum. 109 



the base" as he particularly states. In this respect it differs some- 

 what from Werner's figure of the cephalic limb ofsthe species*). 

 The measurements of the specimen are as follows: 



Length of body 43 mm. 



Length of pronotum 9,5 ,, 



Greatest width of pronotum 5 ,, 



Length of tegmen 35 ,, 



Tarachodes fratercula n. sp. 



Type: c?; German East Africa. [German Entomological 



Museum.] 



Closely allied to sancta Saussure, but differing in the con- 

 siderably smaller size and in the shape of the dorsal margin of 

 the facial shield which is transverse truncate mesad and obliquely 

 truncate laterad. It suggests in many Charakters T. obtusiceps 

 Stäl, but differs from that species in the same points as does 

 T. sancta. 



Size rather small (for the genus); form depressed. Head 

 nearly half again as broad as deep; Vertex transverse truncate, 

 laterad with low angulate protuberances next to the eyes, separated 

 from the line of Vertex by distinctly impressed sulci; facial shield 

 slightly more than one and one-half times as broad as deep, 

 cephalic margin truncate mesad and oblique truncate laterad; 

 ocelli large, subcontiguous, placed in a triangle; eyes moderately 

 prominent, rounded, somewhat directed cephalad. Pronotum 

 subrectangulate, greatest width contained about twice in the 

 length; cephalic margin strongly arcuate, caudal margin sub- 

 truncate mesad and oblique truncate laterad; lateral margins 

 subparallel, very slightly expanded in the supracoxal region, 

 shaft of pronotum slightly narrowed, cephalo-lateral angle slightly 

 protuberant, blunt; median carina hardly indicated, replaced on 

 cephalic half by a rather pronounced sulcus. Tegmina hyaline, 

 distinctly exceeding apex of abdomen, apex sub-obtuseangulate ; 

 marginal field narrow. Cephalic coxae distinctly shorter than 

 pronotum, margins unarmed; cephalic femora quite robust, 

 greatest width contained about two and one-half times in length, 

 dorsal margin slightly arcuate proximad, external margin armed 

 with four Short thick spines, internal margin with twelve short 

 faintly liseriate spines, discoidal spines four in number; cephalic 

 tibiae armed externally with fourteen depressed subserrate spines, 

 internally with thirteen spines. Median and caudal limbs quite 

 short, rather robust. 



General color ochraceous-buff, overlaid with an almost uni- 

 form mottling and sprinkling of vandyke brown, venter wood 

 brown. Vertex cephalad with a broad transverse duU blue-black 



*) Sitzungst). K. Akad. Wissensch., Wien, Math.-üaturw. Kl. CXVI, Abt. I, 

 pl. II, fig. 7. 



6. Heft 



