3R MR. C. T. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jail. 23, 



Perisph.erid.e. 

 Derocalymma bottecuana Sauss. 



Central or East Somaliland (1897). Two female specimens. 



I cannot distinguish D. analis Sauss. from D. bottegiana Sauss. 

 The former is merely referred to and included in the synoptical 

 table, which is very difficult to follow. Mr. Peel's two examples 

 appear to agree entirely with the description of D. bottegiana 

 Sauss., which is described from Somali specimens. One of these 

 specimens still retains the yellowish velvet coat which is so easily 

 lost in handling. They are both a shade smaller than de Saussure's 

 types. 



Periplanetid.e. 



Blatta orientalis L. 



Somaliland (1S95 or 1897). One female. 



PERIPLANETA AMERICANA (L.). 



Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One female. 



Mantodea. 



Orthoderid.e. 



Charieis, gen. nov. 



Oeuli conici, apice pedunculati. Caput hand vahle depressum. 

 Colore griseo. Ocelli in triangulum positi ; antenna? elongates, 

 graciles, testacece ; occiput convexum. Pronotum breve, sulculo 

 irregulari transverso instruction, margine antico subsinuato, 

 dilatato, margine postico rotundato, postice angustatum. Elt/tra 

 et alee perfecte explicates. Ilia membranacea, remote veuosa, 

 hyalina, venis infuscatis, venulis transversis ramorum venae 

 radialis incrassatis, bicoloribus ; membrana analis brevis, seel 

 longior quam latior. Hce hyalitue, venulis arece anticce infus- 

 catis. Pedes graciles ; femora autica gracilia, spinis discoida- 

 Ubus 3 parvis armata, spinis marginis externa irregular Urns, 

 prima minimo, 2° longiori, 3 -6"" 1 parvis, dehinc margine 

 crenulato. Tibue anticce spinis brevibus armatce. Lamina 

 subgenitalis 2 magna, fornicata, rotundata. Cerci 2 satlonr/i, 

 laminam subgenitalem haud superantes. Lamina supraanalis 

 2 brevis, transversa. $ . S ignotus. 

 This genus is a link between Brunner's two sections of the 

 Orthoderidip. In the form of the pronotum it agrees with Chcetessa 

 Burm., while the presence of small discoiclal spines on the anterior 

 femora would place it in the second division. The conical and 

 pedunculated eyes, the spines of the anterior tibiae, the discoidal 

 spines, the somewhat long anal membrane of the elytra separate it 

 from Chcetessa Burm. ; the form of the pronotum satisfactorilv 

 divides it from the Eremiaphilce, Humbertietl^e, and Chiropacha'. 



In general appearance and coloration it resembles Chiropacha 

 and Tarachodes, but it differs in the depressed head. 



