TRAGARDH, ACAKl. 45 



(PI. 3, fig, 29) ; tlie ventral edge of the first Joint is high and provided with two bristles of 

 a peculiar shape: one is straight and tripartite at the top; the other is longer, curved down- 

 wards and in\\ards and raniose on the convex side. The 3^'^ Joint has a small bristle inter- 

 nally, in the niiddle. 



The legs. Coxa and trochanter I with scaly textiire, of the usual shape, flat 

 and broad. Tlie inner (median) anterior angle of the ti-ochanter projects as a thin. 

 nearjy triangulär blade. The inner edge of femnr 1 with a fine, pointed hair, inserted 

 on a low tubercle, outside the tubercle a very thin, high and mnltidentate blade. 

 Feniora II— TV with the usual blades. Tarsus II externally in the niiddle with 

 one stout, short thorn; basi- and telotarsi III and IV with one similar each. 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, II. II. 1906. On a beetle, numerous specimens ; Ki- 

 bonoto 7. VIII. 1905. On a staphylinid (?), numerous specimens. 



Subfam. Parasitince. 

 Holostaspis Klti. 



Holostaspis (HolostaN])is) iiiar^iiiedeiitatus n. sp. 



(PL 2, figs. 13 & 24. PL 3. figs. 2 & 6.) 



Female. Length 1,ü mm. Breadth 0,8 mm. 



Colour deep chestnut-brown. Texture, most beautifuUy marked with fine, 

 corrugated, raised lines, forming polygonal areas, thus producing a net-like pattern. 

 The cuticle in the areas is granulated. This texture is to be found botli on the dor- 

 sal and the ventral shields and on the legs. Only the dorsal side of the rostrum is 

 sniooth; the proximal ventral part is finely punctured. 



The dorsal shield covers nearly the whole dorsal side; only a very narrow 

 strip of weak skin round the margin. The margin of the shield is not sniooth, but 

 granulated and provided with small blunt teetli at regulär intervals, from the level of 

 coxse II backwards, and slightly increasing in size backwards ; there are 14 pairs of 

 tliem. The shield bears rather scarce hairs, tliose at the Shoulders larger than the 

 others. The hairs are rather long, stout, very slightly curved and of even width 

 tliroughout, abruptly narrowing at the top; their proximal third is bare, the rest is 

 closely clotlied mtli fine hairs. The marginal strip bears cS pairs of smaller, submar- 

 ginal hairs at the sides and 4 marginal pairs in the posterior part. 



Ventral side (PI. 3. fig. 2.) 



Tritosternum. The trunk from a broad base gradually narrowing towards 

 the top, very weak and transparent. The slips not fused, with large fringes. Sternal 

 shield broad, extends backwards to the posterior side of coxa III; its greatest width 

 is between coxse II and III. The anterior margin concave, the antero-lateral angles 

 broad, projecting outAvards beyond coxae II and forwards outside along the foveolae 

 pedales I to their front margin. Tlie posterior edge is semicircularly excavated to 

 make room for the genital shield ; the posterior angles narrow, truncated at the top. 



