DESCJilPTIOXS OF ORTHOPTERA FROM S. W. ASIA. 
721 
5 (type.) 6 (paratype.) 
Length of wings . . . . . . . . 23 ? 
„ hind femora . . . . ..7,5 7, 5 
„ hind tibiae . . . . . . 7 7 
The paratypic female differs from male by the broader pronotum, armed with 
two tubercules, with margins strongly denticulate ; by short elytra and by 
darker general coloration, with well pronounced grey bands on the legs ; inner 
spines of the fore tibiae are in female entirely black. 
Two males and one female in British Museum from Ktubu, Arabia, G. W. 
Bury. 
This species is easily distinguished from all previously known by the coloration 
of the inside of fore legs and prosternum ; these characters seem to be very con- 
stant and quite suitable for separating species in this genus. 
The new species is the first Asiatic representative of the genus Tarachodes, 
all others being known from Afi'ica. 
3. Statilia ocellata, sp. n. 
9 : Closely resembles St. haani, Sauss., but differs distinctly by the following 
character's : pronotum with more elongate prozona ; pronotal dilatation nar- 
rower ; prosternum with two whitish ocellar spots, encircled by black ; fore 
coxae armed with seven spines 
Length of body 
. . 50 mm. 
„ pronotum 
. . 18 
„ metazona 
. . 13, 5 
Maximal width of pronotum 
. . 4 
Length of fore coxse 
. . 12 
„ „ femora 
. . 15 
„ „ tibise 
. . 4, 5 
„ hind femora 
., 17. 
., „ tibise 
. . 15, 5 
„ elytra 
.. 39 
elytra extending well beyond apex of abdomen. 
One female in British Museum from Quetta, Baluchistan (received in 1889 
from the Karachi Museum). 
4. Fischeria ineemis, sp. n. 
^ : Smaller and more slender than any known species. Antennae very 
long, setaceous. Head less than twice as broad as pronotal dilatation ; facial 
clypeus transverse, with apex rotundate ; occiput convex with two lateral 
furrows more deeply impressed than two intermediate ones, which are quite 
shallow ; eyes tliick, hemispherical. Pronotum slender ; its sides slightly 
expanded, with a few marginal granules in prozona, but without spines and 
parallel in prozona and in the middle part of metazona, slightly diverging 
backwards ; fore margin elliptical; coxal dilatation placed just behind transverse 
sulcus ; its width is about one- half as much again as the width of pronotum in 
its narrowest part, which is about the middle of metazona ; metazona twice 
as long, as prozona ; median carina placed in a shallow longitudinal sulcus, 
very feeble in prozona. scarcely perceptible in the fore third of metazona and 
entirely disappearing in the hind part of the latter. Elytta extending beyond 
the apex of abdomen. Wings but a little shorter than elytra. Fore coxw a 
little longer than metazona of pronotum, not granulated, armed with 6-7 feeble 
erected spines along the ujiper carina ; fore femora smooth, their armatiu'e, as well 
as that of fore tibise presenting no difference from other specie^ of the genus. 
Hind metatarsus armed with but scarcely perceptible spinules, closely l3nng 
down to metatarsus. Supra anal plate a little longer than its base wide, acutely 
triangular, with apex rounded, lateral margins feebly but distinctly concave, 
median keel developed in the middle part only. Cerci rounded, rather thick, 
distinctly longer than supra anal plate. Subgenital plate with its apex tria*- 
gularly cmarginated between short styli. 
