38 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 2. 



Females. 



(24) 1. Fuscous or piceous species. 



(23) 2. Without rufous fasciae on the pronotum. 



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



(5) 4. Castaneous enjthropeza Adel. 



(4) 5. Rufous. 



(7) 6. 6"' and 7*'' abdominal tergites with a fulvous 



macula on either side dichroa Gerst. (Gold Coast). 



(6) 7. Abdominal tergites uniformly coloured . . . erythrocephala Fab. 

 (3) 8. Head and legs concolorous with rest of body. 



(10) 9. Densely pubescent integerrima Br. 



(9) 10. Not densely pubescent. 



(20) 11. Angles of thoracic tergites strongly produced 



backwards. 

 (19) 12. Species exceeding 24 mm. in length. 

 (18) 13. Posterior margin of pronotum straight. 

 (17) 14. Posterior angles of abdominal tergites spini- 



form. 



(16) 15. 38 mm. in length robusla Gerst. (Cameroons). 



(15) 16. 25 mm. in length gaboonica Rehn (Gaboon). 



(14) 17. Posterior angles of abdominal tergites not 



spiniform melanophila Wlk. [=- speiseri 



Brancs.] 

 (13) 18. Posterior margin of pronotum sinuate. . . . schwcinjurthi Sauss. (Somali- 

 land). 

 (12) 19. Smaller species nigrita Sauss. 



(11) 20. Angles of thoracic Segments not strongly pro- 



duced backwards kachovskü Adel. 



(22) 21. Posterior margin of pronotum sinuate . . . harheijana Sauss. 



(21) 22. Posterior margin of pronotum straight . . . carhonaria Gerst. (W. Africa). 



autraniana Sauss. 

 (2) 23. With rufous fasciae on the margins of the 



pronotum jmuUiioi Bol. (Angola). 



( 1 ) 24. Ferruginous species triimpressa Krauss. 



As our knowledge of the genus extends, it will probably be found that some 

 of these names are synonymous, e. g. D. robtista Gerst. may prove to be the female 

 of D. tullbergi Borg. De Saussure gives the ränge of D. autraniana as West Africa 

 (Abetifi), Somaliland and Gallaland; from the descriptions alone I find it impossible 

 to distinguish de Saussure's species from D. carbonaria Gerst. The following species 

 whicli have been recorded by various authors as of the genus Deropeltis, either belong 

 to other genera or eise are of uncertain position: 



