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Abdomen with the disc above testaceous; svipra-anal lamina transverse; sub-genital 

 lamina cuciillate, deeply notched, the flattened styles springing from the borders of 

 the notch; cerci elongate, fuscous. liCgs testaceous, front femora armed with piliform 

 setae only on the anterior margin beneath. 



Total length 12 mm; length of tegmina 9,5 mm; pronotum 3 mm x 'i,'' mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto 1000 — J 300 metres (Sept.), 1 J. 



Phyllodroiiiiii testacea sp. n. 



(]'l. 2, fiy. II.) 



cT. Pale testaceous. Head rufo-testacieous, vertex not covered by pronotum. 

 Pronotum transversely elliptical, lateral margins broadly hyaline. Tegmina with 

 marginal aj'ea very broad, 9 costal veins, the last ramose, anterior ulnar sending 5 

 branches to sutural and apical margins, the latter ramose; numerous transverse 

 venulae between the veins. Wings hyaline, mediastinal vein bifurcate, the lower branch 

 bi-ramose, 6 costal veins their apices not incrassated, end of radial vein ramose, ulnar 

 vein with 4 branches. Abdomen rufo-testaceous towards apex, supra-anal lamina 

 transverse, posteriorly incrassated, a depression occurs in the posterior edge on either 

 side of the middle line and at the base of these the scent-glands open. Sub-genital 

 lamina produced considerably beyond the supra-anal lamina, cucullate at apex which 

 is deeply and narrowly cleft, the flattened styles spring from the posterior margin; 

 cerci long, testaceous. Front femora with piliform setae only on the anterior margin 

 beneath; all the femora with genicular spines; formula of apical spines f, 1. ]. 



Total length 14 mm; length of body 11 mm; length of tegmina 12 mm; 

 pronotum 3.^' mm x 5 mm. 



Usambara: Tanga (June), 1 o. 



The nearest allies of this species appear to be P. later if era Wlk., P. propinqua 

 Wlk, p. maJKscida Wlk. from the Indo-Malayan and Jndo-Austrahan regions of the 

 world. The remarkable form of the supra-anal lamina of P. testacea is however a 

 sufficiently distinctive character and should render it easier of identification than is 

 the case with so many of the obscure species of this large genus. 



Gen. Ceratiiioptera Brunner. 



This geims should be reserved for those species of Phyllodromiinae characterized 

 by short or reduced tegmina and short or rudimentary wings, the tegmina when 

 reduced are lanceolate, not truncate nor lobiform, and the wings when present have 

 the ulnar vein bifurcate or simple. In the genus Allacta the wings are well-develo- 

 ped but the ulnar vein is ramose, the median is sometimes absent. The genus Temno- 

 pteryx is characterized — as its name signifies — by the truncate tegmina and rudi- 

 mentary wings. 



The African species of Ceratinoptera may be distinguished as follows: 



