SHELFOED, BLATTODEA. ZU 



cT. Length 6 mm.; pronotum 2 mm. x 2,5 mm. 



$. . 7 — 8 mm.; > 2,2 mm. X 3,i mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kiboscho, »Bergwiesen», 3,000 metres. Meru rain-forest, 3,500 m. 

 5 cTJ and a large number of ??. 



Were it not for the presence in the series, of female specimens with the oothcca 

 protruding from the cloaca, these minute cockroaches might readily be overlooked as 

 larval forms of an unknown species of PhyUodromia or Ischnoptera. The species froin 

 Abyssinia described but not named by Aelung (Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. St. 

 Petersbourg vol. IX p. 48, fig. 9 (1904)) may be referred to the genus Apterobhitta 

 and named after the distinguished Russian entomologist Adelungi. 



lam. Epilampridaß. 



Gen. CaloLainpra Sauss. 



Calolanipra ai»t(>ra Schulth. 

 Calolampm apiera de Schulthess Schindlee, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) Vol. XIX p. 169, 

 PI. II. fig. 2 (1898). 

 Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto. Lower Meru: Ngare na nyuki (November— January). 

 Usamhara: Tanga. 2 <^c^, 5 larvae. Previously recorded from Ogaden and Kili- 

 mandjaro. 



Gen. Eustegasta Gerstaecker. 



A careful examination of several species of this genus has convinced me tliat 

 the genus is more naturally placed in the family Epihuiipridcc than in the Perisplnc- 

 riidcB. The femora are armed, though sparsely, beneath, the front femora with three 

 to four spines on the anterior margin, the hind femora with two to three on the 

 anterior margin and one to two on the posterior margin, the mid femora are unarmed 

 or eise bear one spine on tlie anterior margin. The supra-anal lamina of the female 

 is produced and generally the apex is cleft, so that it appears sub-bilobate. The 

 facts that the sexes are alike and that the species are viviparous add a little more 

 Support to the view, based on structural features, that Eustegasta is out of place in 

 the Perisphseriidse. 



Pronotum and tegmina marked with rufous .... pa;cila Schaum. 

 Pronotum and tegmina unicolorous obsoleta Kirby. 



Eustegasta obsoleta Kieby. 

 Eustegasta obsoleta Kieby, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. V. p. 287, 1900. 

 Usamhara: Tanga (June). One female. The species has also been recorded from 

 Nyassaland. 



Eustegasta paH'ila Schaum. 



Fanchlom pcecila Schaum., Ber. Akad. Berlin p. 777 (1853); Peter's Reise Mossamb., Zool. 



vol. V. p. 109, pl. 7, f. 2 (1862). 



