36 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 2. 



Gen. Pei'iplaiieta Burm. 



No examples of this cosmopolitan genus occur in Dr. Sjöstedt's collection bat 

 two species have been previoiislj'' recorded from Eastern Africa, viz: P. americana L. 

 (von der Decken) and P. atricoUis Sauss. (Voeltzkow). 



Gen. Dcropeltis Burm. 



DeiHtpeltis iiielaiiophila Wlk. 



Ischnoplem inelanophüa Walker, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus. Suppl., p. 146. 18H9. 



Dewpeltis madecassa de Saussure, Soc. Ent. VI, p. 17 (1891); de Saüssure and Zehntner 



Grandidier's Hist. de Madagascar, Orth. I, p. 77, pl. 3, ff. 28, 29 (1895). 



Lower Meru: Meru rain-forest 3,000 m. (Oct.— Dec). Usambara: Tanga; 4 

 ,^c^, 2 ?? larvae. 



Also recorded froin Madagascar, Zanzibar and East Africa. 



Deropeltis iiitegerriina Br. ~ 



DeropeHis integerrima Brunner, Nouv. Syst. des Blatt, p. 245 (1865). 



Lower Meru: Ngare na nyuki (November — January); 2 J'J', 6 ??. 

 Previously recorded from Zanzibar ; there is a specimen in the Paris IMuseum 

 from Mombasa. 



üeropeltis autriiniaiia Sauss. 



Deropeltis aulraniana Saussure, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. XXXV, p. 78 (1895). 



A long series (96 specimens) from Lower Meru, the steppe country and acacia 

 forest (Sept. to Dec.) and Kilimandjaro : Kibonoto LOÜO — 1,300 metres. Abundant 

 under stones. 



The species is very variable in size in both sexes and the smaller species are 

 less nitid than the larger. There are specimens in the Hope Museum, Oxford from 

 Nairobi, British East Africa and the species was recorded by de Saussure from 

 Gallaland and West Africa; it is very close to D. icahlbergi Stal from S. Africa 

 and may eventually prove to be identical witli it. The determination of the species of 

 the genus Deropeltis is attended with considerable difficult}^ as the number of forms 

 is considerable and a good proportion have been described from one sex alone. The 

 foUowing tables will perhaps render more easy the tedioiis task of hunting through 

 literature, whenever one of the more obscure species of the genus has to be identified. 



Males. 



(32) 1. Fuscous or piceous species. 



(13) 2. Head and legs or legs alone different in coloiir 



to rest of body. 

 (8) 3. Head and legs rufous or castaneous. 



