OCR Text |
Show 36 MR. C. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, PERISPH.ERIDJE. D E R O C A L Y M M A BOTTEGIANA 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 aud 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. B L A T T A ORIENTALIS L. Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One female. PERIPLANETA AMERICANA (L.). Somaliland (1895 or 1897). One female. MANTODEA. ORTHODERID.E. CHARIEIS, gen. nov. Oculi conici, apice pedunculati. Caput haud valde depressum. Colore griseo. Ocelli in triangulumpositi; antennce elongatce, graciles, testacece; occiput convexum. Pronotum breve, sulculo irregulari transverso instructum, margine antico subsinuato, dilatato, margine postico rotundato, postice angustatum. Elytra et alee perfecte explicates. Ilia membranacea, remote venosa, hgalina, venis infuscatis, venulis transversa ramorum vence radialis incrassatis, bicoloribus ; membrana analis brevis, sed longior quam latior. Hce hyalines, venulis arece anticce infuscatis. Pedes graciles ; femora antica gracilia, spinis discoida-libus 3 parvis armata, spinis marginis externa irregularibus, prime minimo, 2° longiori, 30-6"»l parvis, dehinc margine crenulato. Tibice anticce spinis brevibus armatce. Lamina subgeuitalis 2 magna, fornicata, rotundata. Cerci 2 satlongi, laminam subgenitalem haud superantes. Lamina supraanalis 2 brevis, transversa. 2 • o* ignotus. This genus is a link between Brunner's two sections of the OrthoderidtK. In the form of the pronotum it agrees with Chcetessa Burm., while the presence of small discoidal spines on the anterior femora would place it in the second division. The conical and pedunculated eyes, the spines of the anterior tibia?, the discoidal spines, the somewhat long anal membrane of the elytra separate it from Chcetessa Burm. ; the form of the pronotum satisfactorily divides it from the Eremiaphilcs, Humbertiella*, and Chiropachce. In general appearance and coloration it resembles Chiropacha and Tarachodes, but it differs in the depressed head. |