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Show 1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 41 rudimentaria vel nulla. Alee nullce. Abdomen segmeniis 1° et 2° deplanatis, ceteris compressis, carinulatis. Pedes crassiusculi. Femora postica valde incrassata, haud serrulata ; tilrice posticce margine externo 6-8, interuo 8-9 spinis armatce ; tarsi poslici segmentisl0 et 3° elongatis,2°parvo. Cerci d breves, comp>ressi, conici, apice obtusi. Lamina supraanalis d obtusa, apice paullo bi-emarginuta, medio plus minus sulcata. Lamina subgenitcdis d magna, fornicata; lamina subgenitalis 2 simplex. Valvules ovipositoris breves, granulatce. Corpus glabrum, partibus genitalibus d 2 tibiis posticis hirsuiis. 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 Bol. SAURACRIS LACERTA, 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 testaeei; femora postica extus fusco vel atro ornata ; tibice posticce spinis extus 6-8, intus 9 armatce. Abdomen subtus nigro variegatum. Femina mare major, fuscior. d 2 • d. 2- 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. Central or East Somaliland (1897); 2 males. Female, type from 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. LOCUSTODEA. PHANEROPTERID^;. 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, abdominenigro-punctulatis. Pronotum lobis defiexis ceque altis ac longis; carina; haud valde expresses, fiavidce. Elytra breviora, venulis transversis haud prominulis, parte anali usque ad apicem nigro-punctulata. Ala; elytris longiores. Femora postica gracilia, apicem elytrorum |