2 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 1. 



IJ. Species widely distribiited tlirouj^li Africa. 



Echinosoma ivahlhergi Dohrn. Diaperasticus erythrocephalus Oliv. 



Spongiphora quadrimaculata Stal. Forficula senegalensis Sbrv. 



C. Species probahly occiirriiiff widely in East Afriea. 



Pygidicrana hettoni Kirby. Forficula rodziankoi Sem. 



Diaperasticus sansibaricus Karsch. Chaetospania rodens n. 



D. Species probahly pi-eciuctive, i. e., coiifiiied to tlie district in question. 



Anisolahis laeta Gerst. Bormansia africana Verh. 



Anisolabis felix n. Bormansia impressicollis Verh. 



Forficula sjösiedti n. Leptisolahis usamharana Verh. 



Pseudochelidu7'a sp. Leptisolahis theoriae Verh. 



These four last species were not captured by Dr. Sjöstedt. 



It is worthy of note that all these precinctive species are incapable of flight. 



Our knowledge of the Dermatoptera-iauna, of the country round Kilimandjaro 

 and Meru has been hitherto very meagre. Gerst^cker published an account of the 

 insects of the neighbourhood of Zanzibar, in 1869 (Arch. für Naturg. 1), based on 

 material accumulated by van der Decken, in which he deseribed tvvo species of earwigs; 

 one of these is Anisolabis laeta, which was taken in niunbers by Dr. Sjöstedt, and 

 the other Forficula (Apterygida) gravidnla, which is synonymous with ^ . arachidis Y^ns., 

 and is now universally distributed throughout the world. 



Apart from this paper, I know of no aiticle dealing with the subject, and in 

 Order to find any notes supplementary to the material obtained by Dr. Sjöstedt, it 

 has been necessary to search for references to this district scattered through the 

 literature of this group of insects. 



The reniarkable geniis Bormansia was not found by Dr. Sjöstedt; it contains 

 two species which occnr in East Africa. B. africana Verh. was taken by Oscar 

 Neumann in German East Africa, but the author gives no more precise locality; 

 B. impressicollis Verh. was found at Taita by Hildebrandt, who brought home a 

 solitary female, and I have several specimens, including males, from Kilimandjaro in my 

 own coUection, bought from a German dealer. 



Pygidicrana caffra Dohrn is deseribed from specimens found at Zanzibar by 

 Hildebrandt (teste Karsch op. cit.) and is probably widely distributed through 

 Eastern and South-eastern Africa. 



The wingles genus Leptisolahis Verh. (Sitzungsbericht der Ges. Naturf. -Freunde, 

 1901,No.T.p.l2), contains two species, L. usambaranaVERn., knownfrom a single male taken 

 by KoNRADT at an elevation of 850 metres in December 1891, at Derema in Usambara, 

 and L. theoriae Verh., represented in European coUections by two males in the Berlin 



