14 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJAKO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 1. 



Farn. Ectobiidse. 

 Gen. Theganopteryx Br. 



Thegauopteryx africaua Sauss. 



Ectobia ajricana Saussure, Abb. Senckenb. Ges. vol. 21 p. 569 (1899) 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto 1000 — 1300 metres (April); Lower Meru: Masai 

 steppes; Usamhara: Mombo (June); 9 c^cT, 4 ??. 



Previously recorded from tlie East African coast (Voeltzkow); the species super- 

 ficially resembles very closely Ectohius perspicillaris Herbst, but striicturally differs 

 in the Separation of the radial and ulnar veins of the tegmina; since this is the 

 very character used to divide the genus Theganopteryx from the genus Ectohius the 

 placing of the species in the latter genus is quite illogical. 



Theganopteryx saussurei Shelf. 



Theganopteryx saussurei Sbelford, Gen. Insect. Fase. 55. p. 8 (1907). 



Theganopteryx senegalensis var. Saussui-e, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. Vol. 35 p. 3 (1895). 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto 1300—1900 metres; Lower Meru: Masai steppes. 8 c/J'. 



The species is undoubtedly very closely allied to the West African senegalensis 

 Sauss. and may possibly be shown later to be identical ; at present however I consider 

 it advisable to separate them. 



The two East African species may be separated by their colouration. 



1. Testaceous, with scattered fuscous points ajricana Sauss. 



r. Fuscous, pronotum & tegmina margined with white saussurei Shelf. 



Gen. Mallotobliltta Saussure & Zehntner. 

 Mallotoblatta kraussi Adel. 



(riatc 3, fig. 3.) 

 Mallotoblatta Kraussi Adelung, Ann. Mus. Acad. Imp. des Sei. S:t Petersburg vol. IX. p. 12 (1905). 



cT. Flavo-testaceous. Body with a sparse erect pubescence most marked on 

 the ventral surface. A transverse band oa the frons, the apex of the maxillary palpi and 

 the labrum fuscous. Vertex of head not covered by pronotum. Pronotum trapezoidal, 

 with two longitudinal fuscous vittae. Tegmina equal to the body in length, 15 

 costal veins, radial vein bifurcate, 7 longitudinal discoidal sectors, posterior ulnar 

 simple. Wings shorter than the tegmina, mediastinal vein 5-ramose, 9—10 costals, 

 these and the mediastinal rami incrassated, radial vein bifurcate near apex, median 

 vein sinuate, ulnar vein bifurcate near apex, medio-discal and medio-ulnar areas 



