•4 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MEEU EXPEDITION. 21: 2. 



three species were found in the little Island St. Vincent, and one in Madagascar; but 

 during the expeditions made in the last decennium to Aby.ssinia, British- and Geman-East- 

 Africa the European Museums, particularly at Berlin and Paris were augmented with many 

 new forms, which I have had occasion to see and examine. 



I have made descriptions and drawings of more than forty new species of this 

 subfamily, and these, which I hope to get occasion to publish afterwards, are yet, as I have 

 written in the year 1899 "certainly but forerunners for a swarm of forms, which the 

 inner Africa shall bring to light". 



The Eubelinae present habitually very different types, from the Armadillo-like forms, 

 which have a strong ability to conglobation, to the Percellio-like flattened forms, that the 

 Eubelinae seem to repeat the genuine Oniscinae building a parallel series of forms. 



Only carefull studies, principally with the mouth-parts, can give the decisive criterion 

 for the Separation from the other subfamilies. The deep furrow in the first truncal 

 Segment, separating the epimera from the middle-part of the segment, is present in the 

 greater part of the species, however, not in all the species of Eubelinae, has given 

 a superficial likeness with several other forms of the family, as species of Synarmadillo, 

 PeriscypJds and Microcercus. 



I describe below the four new species collected by the expedition, three of them 

 are representatives for new genera. 



Benecliinus nov. gen. 



Antennpe flagello biarticulato. MandibulcC penicillo unico libero munitre; seta infe- 

 rior e radice brevi ramis paucioribus ciliatis instructa. Maxiila? prioris paris lacinia ex- 

 terior dentibus novem, 4+5 (dens 1. et 4. apice flssus, 2. 3. 5. acutus); lacinia inferior 

 apice penicillis numero c. sex, post nulla spina. Omnia segmenta trunci post in lami- 

 nam validam transversam declivam producta. Segmentum 1. sulco epimeri intramarginali 

 solito nuUo, margine laterali post fisso. Caud?e pleopodes omnium parium tracheis parvis 

 instructi. Telsum medio tetragono producto. Uropodes telso breviores; exopoditum 



parvum, apicale. 



Benecliinus armatn.s n. sp. 



Tab. I, Fig. 1—14. 



Tota superficies minuüssime squamata. Oculi parvi, globosi, in angulo anteriore 

 capitis utrinque positi; ocelli numero c. 10. Antenuce breviores, tertiam corporis partem 

 longitudine suba;quantes; fiagefium scapi articulo 5. longitudine abquäle, articulo priore 

 altero triplo breviore. Epistoma convexiusculum, supra maxime in mediam frontem re- 

 flexum, margine superiore in medio deleto, ad latera manifesto et utrinque in lobos late- 

 rales ante oculos erectos producto. Clypeus brevis, leviter fornicatus, lobis lateralibus 

 minutis transverse rotundaüs. Linea marginalis verticalis utrinque ante oculos producta, 

 epistoma tamen non attingens. Trunci segmentum 1. magnum; epimera magna nullo sulco 

 a parte media segmenti discreta, margine laterali tenui, altecincto, angulis anticis et posti- 

 cis late rotundatis, post supra leviter fisso: lacinia superior magna, rotunda, retroducta. 

 Margo posterior omnium segmentorum in laminam transversam, validam, reclivam, in 



