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Kilimandjaro : Steppe, Kiraragua, on Acacias. April 1906. 



This small species with its rather prominent anal lobes somewhat resembles a 

 Ripersia but the number of antenna! segments precludes its admission to this genus. 

 Its fusiform shape, the large > cicatrices*, and the orange-crimson colour may also 

 serve to distinguish it. No trace of cereous secretion was observable, but this may 

 have been dissolved in the alcohol. 



Fig. F. Ripersia aiiotm/iti, ^ ad: 1 dorsal: 2 antenna; 3 tarsus; 4 anal margins 4 a group of mar- 

 ginal spines: 4 b curved spines on ricatrirc. 



Genus Ripersia SIGN. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5), V, p. 335 (1875). 



Ripersia anomala n. sp. 



Fig. F., 1 4. - - Adult female (Fig. 1) short ovate, slightly narrowed in front, 

 highly convex, the oldest examples being almost hemispherical; venter concave, seg- 

 mentation strongly pronounced, especially so at the margins. Pale ochreous-brown ; 

 dorsum with irregular interrupted bands of short, dense, white, cereous matter; in 

 some individuals the two broad cephalic and the first abdominal bands of secretionary 

 matter, although irregular in outline, are continuous; in other examples the bands 

 are all interrupted so that they appear as median and lateral, elongated patches. 

 Some individuals are also nude or practically so, possibly due to abrasion. Derm 

 practically covered with minute circular spinnerets interspersed with minute short 

 spinose hairs. Antennae (Fig. 2) of six segments, the apical one the longest, the 

 fourth and fifth shortest; all the segment with fine short hairs. Legs stout; tarsi 



Sjostedtt Kitimandijaro-Merv Expedition. 12 2 



