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Show 1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 45 EURYCORYPHA VARIA Brunner. Patria. North-west Somaliland, Whardi Datal, July 26, 1895. One female. Eecorded from Kilimanjaro by Brunner. CONOCEPHALIDJE. XlPHIDIUM SOMALI, sp. U. X. natalensi Redt. vicinum. Fastigium verticis ab antico visum lateribus haud distincte divergentibus. Caput et pronotum fiava, fasciis tribas, media lata, lateralibus angustis fuscis ornata pronotum inerme, lobis deflexis obtuse triangularibus, marginibas obliquis, vix sinuatis, callo convexo nullo. Elytra abbreviata, lobiformia, pronoto breviora, testacea, margine antico infuscato. Alee obliterates. Abdomen fasco-testaceum, utrinque jiavido-bilineatum. Femora postica inermia, genibus inermibus. Pedes testaceis. Ovipositor longissimus, rectissimus. Lamina subgenitalis 2 apice truncata. 2 • cJ ignotus. 2- Long, corporis 17*5 mm. ,, pronoti 3-5 „ elytrorum 3 ,, ovipositons "8 Patria. North-w^est Somaliland, Whardi Datal, July 26, 1895. One female specimen. Type in Hope Collection, Oxford. This species differs from X. natalense Bedt. in its unarmed knees and differently coloured, head and pronotum. From X. brevicercus and X. armaticeps Karsch it may be distinguished by its unarmed head and pronotum. HETRODIDiE. EUGASTER LORICATUS Gerst. North Central Somaliland: Haud District, Eyk (" in open plain by thick bush"), July 2-4, 1897. One male and one female specimen. SPALACOMIMUS TALPA (Gerst.). North Central Somaliland : Haud District, Eyk, Julv 2-4, 1897. (" Open plain by thick bush."-C. Y. A. P.) One male and one female specimen. STENOPELMATID.E. MAGRETTIA OBSCURA, sp. n. Fusco-testacea, nitida. A M. abominata Br. differt femoribus tantum spinula minima unica apicem versus armatis, tibiis anticis infiatis. A M. mutica Br. differt femoribus spinula •unica, nequc 4-5 armatis, pronoto antice quam postice paullo latius. d • |
