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



bar, facial shield with three narrow poorly defined transverse 

 markings of the same color, one mesad, one dorsad and one ventrad, 

 the median one rather broken into a median and a pair of lateral 

 Spots, of which the median one is indistinctly connected with 

 the dorsal and ventral bars; ocelli orange-red; eyes raw umber 

 sprinkled with vandyke brown. Tegmina washed with pale isabella 

 color ; veins wood brown, lined at frequent intervals with vandyke 

 brown. Prosternum with a narrow transverse V-shaped bar of 

 black between coxal bases caudal section blackish becoming 

 paler cephalad; mesosternum with a pair of small black dots 

 cephalad and a median black spot between the median coxae; 

 ventral surface of abdomen with a pair of black spots on each 

 Segment, these becoming smaller caudad; cerci of general color 

 becoming darker distad. 



Cephalic coxae unmarked ventrad, of general ventral color; 

 cephalic femora with a median longitudinal brownish black line 

 on internal face, this heaviest proximad, becoming slender distad; 

 femoral and tibial spines black tipped. 



Median tibiae indistinctly annulate. Caudal limbs missing. 



Measurements. 



Length of body 32 mm. 



Greatest width of head 5,5 



Length of pronotum 6,8 



Greatest width of pronotum 3,5 



Length of tegmen 26,5 



Length of cephalic femur 6,5 



The type is the only specimen of the species seen by us. 



Tarachodes sjöstedti Werner. 



1907. Tarachodes Sjöstedti Werner, Sitzungsb. K. Akad. 



Wissensch. Wien, Math.-nat. KL, CXVI, Abt. I, p. 215, pl. III, 



Fig. 4. [Chinchoxo, West-Africa.] 



Benguella, Angola. (Wellman.) One male. 



This specimen agrees very well with the original description 

 of the species. 



Pyrgomantis Gerstaecker, 



Pyrgomantis wellmani n. sp. 



Type: ^•, Benguella, Angola. (F. C. Wellman.) [German 



Entomological Museum.] 



Related to P. septentrionalis Werner*) from Gondokoro but 

 differing in the smaller size, shorter and biunter cephalic 

 protuberance and proportionately broader pronotum. The only 

 other species at all closely related is P.jonesi Kirby **) from Nigeria, 

 this differing, however, is the much greater size, agreeing in this 



*) Sitzungsb. K. Akad. Wissensch., Wien. Math.-natur. Kl., CXVI, Abt. I. 

 p. 228, pl. 1, Fig. 4. 



**) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (7), XIII, p. 83. 



