26 S.IOSTEDTS KILIMANDJAEO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 2. 



Geratinoptera dimidiata Gerst. has been recorded froni Endara, E. Africa (von 

 DER Decken). 



Gen. Temiiopteryx Brunner. 



Key to the East African species. 



1. Fuscous, pronotum margined with testaceous abyssinica Savss. 



& Zehnt. 

 r. Rufous or testaceous. 

 2. Testaceous. 



3. Larger, 9 mm. long ectobioides sp. n. 



3'. Smaller, 7 mm. long • affinis sp. n. 



2'. Rufo-testaceous or rufous. 



3. Pronotum with central testaceous vitta caffra Sauss. 



3'. Pronotum unicolorous rufa sp. n. 



Temnopteryx abyssinica Sauss. & Zehnt. 



Temnopteryx abyssinica Saüssure & Zehntnee, Grandidiers Hist. Madagascar Orth. I p. 51 (1896)'. 

 Temnopteryx saussurei Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. LXVI p. 292 (1897). 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto 1,000—3,500 metres; Masai steppes. 



Lower Meru (Sept. to Oct.); 10 ??, 5 larvae. 



These specimens differ very slightly in colour from the type, which occurs at 

 Massowa; the posterior border of the pronotum is narrowly testaceous, and not prov- 

 ided with a testaceous macula as in the Abyssinian examples, the cerci are testaceous 

 instead of fuscous, and the supra-anal lamina is fuscous instead of testaceous ; with these 

 slight differences excepted, the Kilimandjaro examples appear to be identical with the 

 typical specimens. In one example the egg-mass is protruding from the cloaca, the 

 eggs are enclosed in a thin transparent membrane through which the eyes of the 

 developing embryoes can be distinctly seen ; it is probably the case that this species 

 carries the eggs until they are almost ready to hatch out. Another example is stated 

 to have been found with termites, but the association was probably accidental. 



Temnopteryx ectobioides sp. n. 



(PI. 2, fig. 12.) 



cf. Pale testaceous. Head with a fuscous mark between the eyes and another 

 between the antennal sockets, the area between these two marks, pale pinkish-white 

 and nitid ; antennae testaceous at base, remainder fusco-testaceous. Pronotum very 

 broad, transversely truncate behind, just failing to cover Vertex of head in front; 

 lateral margins broadly hyaline, disc slightly rugulose with a few brovvn points and 

 with a short fuscous vitta at each posterior angle. Tegmina quadrate just covering 

 the first abdominal segment, with a few brown points between tlie veins, anal vein 



' Tenmopteryx (ibyssiiiicn Sauss. (Mem. Soc. Geneve. XXIII p. 93. 1873) liaving l)eon rpinnvrd to 

 tlie geuus CeraHiioptera (viilo aiitea). this species may hc alinwed to i-rtaiii its original naiiie. 



