1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 41 



rudimentaria vel nulla. Alee nullce. Abdomen segmentis 1° et 2° 

 deplanatis, ceteris compressis, carinidatis. Pedes crassiusculi. 

 Femora postica valde incrassata, haud serrulata ; tibiae posticce 

 margine externo 6-8, interuo 8-9 spinis armatce ; tarsi postici 

 segmentis 1° et 3° elongatis, 2° parvo. Cerci rf breves, compressi, 

 conici, apice obtusi. Lamina supraanalis S obtusa, apice 

 paullo bi-emarginata, medio jjZus minus sulcata. Lamina 

 sabgenitalis cS magna, fornicata ; lamina subgenitalis $ 

 simplex. Valvules ovipositoris breves, granulatce. Corpus 

 glabrum, partibus genitalibus c$ 5 tibiis posticis hirsutis. 

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

 elytra, wings, and of the carina? of the pronotum separate it from 

 Cyphocerastes Karsch, Epistaurus Bol., Acridoderes Bol. 



Sauracris lacerta, sp. n. (Plate II. fig. 3, 3 .) 



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

 oculi globosi, badii. Pronotum pallide testaceum, fasciis 3 

 fuscioribus longiiudinalibus ornatum. Elytra minutissima, 

 granidati, lobiformia, segmenti abdominalis primi dimidium vix 

 attingentia, vel nulla. Abdomen testaceum, vittis et maculis 

 nigris ornatum. Pedes testacel ; femora postica extus fusco vel 

 atro ornata ; tibice posticce spinis extus 6-8, intus 9 armatce. 

 Abdomen subtus nigro variegatum. Femina mare major, 

 fuscior. $ $ . 



6- ?. 



Long, corporis 25*5 mm. 39 mm. 



„ pronoti . . 6 8 



„ elytrorum (si adsunt) . . 1*75 1-75 



,, femorum posticorum . . 13-13'5 17 



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



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



2 males. Temale, type Irom Hargaisa, in Hope Collection, Oxford. 

 Male type from Central or East Somaliland, in Hope Collection. 

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



LoCTTSTODEA. 



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PHANEROPTERID.E. 



Peronura sp. inc. 



North-west Somaliland, Whardi Datal, July 26, 1895. One 

 female nymph. * 

 It is impossible accurately to determine this immature specimen. 



Phaneroptera punctulata, sp. n. 



Parva, Icete viridis ; pronoto, cruribus, abdomine nigro-punctulatis. 

 Pronotum lobis dejiexis ceque cdtis ac longis ; carince haud 

 valde expresses, jlavidce. Elytra breviora, venulis transversis 

 haud prombudis, parte anali usque ad apicem nigro-punctulata. 

 Alee elytris longiores. Femora postica gracilia, apicem elytrorum 



