1900.] INSECTS xyv arachnoids tuom somalilaxd, 41 



rudimentaria vel nulla. Alee mdlce. Abdomen segmentis l'^ et 2" 



deplanatis, ceteris compressis, carinulatis. Pedes crassiusculi. 



Femora postica valde incrassata, hand serridata ; tibiae posticce 



margine externo 6-8, interna 8-9 spinis armutoi ; tarsi postici 



segmentis 1" et 3" elongatis, 2° parvo. Cerci c? breves, comjrressi, 



conici, apice obtusi. Lamina sapruanalis S obtusa, apice 



paullo hi-emargimda, medio plus minus sulcata. Lamina 



subgenitalis <5 magna, fornicata ; lamina subgenitalis 5 



simplex. Valvulce oviposiioris breves, gramdatce. Corpus 



glabrmn,partibus genitalibus <S $ tibiis posticis hirsntis. 



This new genus falls into the group Coptacnp. The absence of 



elytra, wings, and of the cariuoe of the pronotuai separate it from 



Cyphocerastes Karsch, Epistaarus Bol., Acridoderes Bol. 



Saurackis lacerta, sp. n. (Plate II. fig. 3, d •) 

 Statura mediocri, testacea, nigra varia. Caput pallide testaceum ; 

 oculi globosi, badii. Pronotum pallide testaceum, fasciis 3 

 fuscioribus longitudinallbas arnatum. Ehjtra minutissima, 

 qrunidati, lobifonnia, segmenti abdominalis primi dimidium vix 

 attingentia, vel nulla. Abdomen testaceum, vittis et maculis 

 nigris arnatum. Pedes testacei ; femora postica extus fusco vd 

 airo ortiata ; tibice posticce spinis extus 6-8, intus 9 armatce. 

 Abdomen subtus nigra variegatum. Femina mare major, 

 fasclor. c? 2 . 



Long, corporis 



„ pronoti . 



„ elytrorum (si adsunt). 

 „ feiQorum posticorura . 

 Patria. North-west Somaliland, Hargaisa, April 25-28, 1895 ; 



1 male, 1 female and 1 nymph. Central or East .Somaliland (1897) ; 



2 males. I'emale, type trom Hargaisa, in Hope Collection, Oxford. 

 Male type from Central or East 8omaliland, in Hope Collection. 

 Co-types at Oxford and in the collection of Malcolm Burr. 



L O C U S T O 1) E A. 

 PHANEROrXERID-i:. 



Pekontra sp. inc. 



North-west Somaliland, AVhardi Datal, July 26, 1S95. One 

 female nymph. 



It is impossible accui'ately to determine this immature specimen. 



Phaneroptera puncxulata, sp. n. 



Parva, Icete viridis ; pronoto, cruribus, ubdominenigro-punctulatis. 

 Pronotum lobis defiexis teque altis ac longis ; car i nee Jiaad 

 valde expressce, jlavidce. Elytra breviora, venulis transversis 

 hand promimdis, parte ancdi usque ad apicem nigro-pitinctulata. 

 Alee ehftris longiores. Femora postica gracilia, apicem eliitrorum 



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