r 



1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM BOMAULAKD. 41 



rudimentaria vel nulla, ~Ua nulla. Abdomen segmenttsV et 2° 

 deplanatis, ceteris compressis, carinulatis. Pedes crassiusculi. 

 Femora postica vaJde incrassata, haud s< rrulata ; tibia postica 

 margine externa 6—8, interno 8—9 spinis armata ; tarsi postici 

 segment is 1° et 3° elongatis, 2° parvo. Cerei d br< ves, compressi, 

 conici, apic* obtusi. Lamina sMpraanalis d obtusa, apice 

 paullo L'i-t nunytitaia, medio phis minus sulcata. Lamina 

 subgenitalis d magna, fornicataj lamina subgenitalis £ 

 simplex. Valvula oviposit oris breves, granulates. Corpus 

 glabrum, partibus genitalibus d $ tibiis posticis Jiirsutis, 

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

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

 Cyphocerastes Karsch, Epistaurus Bol., Acridoderes liol. 



Saueacbis LACEirxv, sp. n. (Plate II. fig. 3, d •) 



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

 oculi globosi. badii, Pronotum pallide testaceum, fasciis 3 

 fuscioribus longitudinalibus ornatum. Elytra minutissima, 

 granulati, lobiformia, segmenti abdominalis primi dimidium vix 

 attingentia, vel nulla. Abdomen testaceum, vittis et maculis 

 nigris ornatum. Pedes testacei ; femora postica extus fusco vel 

 atro ornata ; tibia postica- spinis extus 6-8, intas 9 armata. 

 Abdomen subtus nigro variegatum. Femina mare major, 

 fuscior. d 9 . 



Long, corporis 



,, pronoti . 



„ elytrorum (si adsunt), 

 ,, femoruin posticorum , 



Patria. North-wesl Bomaliland, Hargaisa, April 25 28, I 



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



2 males. Female, type from I fargaisa, in Hope Collection, Oxford. 

 Male type from Central or Mast Bomaliland, in Hope Collection. 

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



Lo< ETSTODXA. 



I'n \ \ in. .i'M.i; ! ni:. 

 I'i.u'.m i; \ ep. inc. 



North-wed Bomaliland, Whardi Datal, July 26, 1895. One 

 female nymph. 

 It Lb impossible accurately to determine this immature specimen. 



I'll UrXBOP! I B \ PI n< i I I. VI \, Bp. n. 



Parva, latt viridis; pronoto, cruribus, abdomtn* mgro-punctulatis. 

 Pronotum lobis dtflexis ohiua altis ac longis; carina haud 

 i- il'l< expressa, flavida. Elytra breviora, venulis transversis 

 haud prominulis, partt anah usqut ad apicem nigro-punctulata, 

 Ala elytrit longioree. Femora postica gracilia, apicem elytrorum 



d- 



?• 



25*5 mm. 



39 mm 



(! 



8 ' 



1-75 



L-75 



3-13-5 



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