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Genus TEMNELYTRA Tepper. 



1893. Temnelytra Teitek, Trans, and Proc. and Rep. Royal Soc. South Aust., 

 XVII, ]). 39. 



Type. — T. harjmriTQ^^Qv. 



TEMNELYTRA HARPURI Tepper? 



• 1893. Temnelytra harpuri Tepper, Trans, and Proc. and Rep. Royal Sot-. South 

 Aust, XVII, p. 39; Cygnet River and Karatta, Kangeroo Island, South 

 Australia. 



One larval specimen; Australia. (Koebele.) [U.S.N.M.] 

 This specimen is referred here with some little doubt, as the color- 

 ation does not wholl}^ agree with the original description. This, of 

 course, may be due to the immature condition, as the specimen is not 

 as far advanced as the larva mentioned b}' Tepper. 



Genus DEROPELTIS Burmeister. 

 1838. Deropeltis Burmeister, Handb. d. Entoni., II, -p. 486. 

 Type. — D. erythroc&phala (Fabricius). "■ 



DEROPELTIS GABOONICA, new species. 



Ty2Je. — Female; Gaboon River, West Africa. (Rev. M. Nassau.) 

 [Acad, of Nat. Sci. Phila.] 



Allied to D. schwelnfurthi Saussure,'' from East Africa, but differ- 

 ing in the broader pronotum, the stouter and heavier limbs, the very 

 much shorter posterior metatarsi, and the broader and more rounded 

 supra-anal plate. From D. spelserl Bruncsik,^ from the Zambesi 

 region, it can be immediately differentiated by the much smaller size; 

 while D. tuUhergi Borg,-' from the Kamerun country, appears to be 

 very different in character, though little comparison can be instituted, 

 as it is based on the male. 



Size rather large; form robust, veiy slightly depressed, subovate; 

 surface covered with exceedingly minute reticulations. Head pro- 

 jecting, anterior border ver}^ slightly arcuate; interspace between the 

 ocelli about three-fifths that between the eyes; ocelli very small, dis- 

 tant from the eyes; e^^es elongate p3a'iform, the greatest depth ante- 

 riorly; antennae about two-thirds the length of the body, third joint 

 slightly longer than the first joint. Pronotum transverse; the ante- 



«The original genus contained two species — vertical is Burmeister {^ capensis 

 Fabricius) and erythrocephala Fabricius. Of these two the latter can be selected as 

 the type. 



ft Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, XXXV, p. 79. 



^■Jahresheft des Naturwissenschaftlichen A'ereines des Trencsener Comitates, 

 XVII-XVIII, p. 245, pi. VII, fig. 3. 



<^Bihangtill K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., XXVIII, 1903, no. 10, p. 16. 



