36 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 20: 3. 



In front of the inandibles and surrounding their tips the upwardly curved tips of the 

 maxiJlfe form a broad, horseshoe- shaped ridge, provided with a pair of straight 

 feathered hairs. 



Ventral side. 



The coxal shields more or less triangulär, with rounded median margin. Coxse 

 I shorter and broader than the others, with one hair of the same shape as the 

 dorsal ones, curved outwards and backwards and inserted near the anterior margin. 

 Coxse II with 2 similar hairs, one of which is placed at the anterior margin, distally, 

 while the other is inserted ventrally, a little outside and behind the middle. Coxee 

 III witli two hairs, one at the antero-lateral angle, the other near the anterior margin, 

 proximally. Between coxae I, on a level with their posterior margin, there is one pair, 

 between coxse II one pair, on a transverse line in front of coxaj III two pairs of 

 hairs and between coxa3 III 3 hairs ; further back on the belly about 20 pairs of 

 hairs. Anus small, oval, in the centre of the belly. The legs. All the legs are 

 slender, with finely porate cuticle. Trochanter small; femur divided into basifemur 

 and telofemur, which are of subequal length in the resp. legs. The genu is slightly 

 shorter than the basi- and telofemur together. Genu and tibia I of equal length, 

 genua II and III slightly shorter than the resp. tibia. The tarsi from broad base 

 narrowing towards the top and curved slightly downwards. The claws of the usual 

 shape. 



KiUmandjaro: Kibonoto. 6. XI. 1905. Numerous specimens on the dorsum of 

 an Acridiid. 



Subfam. Trombidiince. 



AUotlii'oinbiiiin Berl. 



Allotliroinl»iuiii periiraiide Beri,. 



Usambora: Mombo, VI, 6 specimens. 



KiUmandjaro: Kiboscho 3400—4000 M. 19. II. 1906 2 specimens. The species 

 ie recorded from Italy, Egypt and Sudan. 



Ti'oiiibidium Fabr. 

 Trombidiuiii bipectinatuin Tgdh. 



il/erM-monntain. 3800 M., one specimen. 



The species is up to the present time only recorded from Cameroon. 



Troinbidium liolost^riceuin (L) Fabr. 

 Kilimandjaro: Kiboscho. 19. II. 1906, 12 specimens. 



Trombidiiim tinetorinm (L.) 



(PI. 2, figs. 3, 23 and 25.) 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, 1300—1600 M., 3 specimens; Kiboscho, in the upper 

 part of the rain-forest, 2950 M., 8 specimens; Kilimandjaro, III 1906, 4 specimens. 



