— 17 — 



yellow, below spotted with fuscous or blackish patches; palpi 

 yellow, digits alone black in their basal half; legs yellow, 

 faintly spotted with black; carapace not crested, finely gra- 

 nular throughout; ocular tubercle low, with smooth superci- 

 liar crests; tergites finely granular with a median distinctly 

 granular keel; sternites smooth, punctured, the last with 

 neither granules nor crests; tail almost parallel-sided, smooth 

 with convex spaces; keels all very weak, smooth, or hardly 

 granulated; the lower surface of the third, fourth and fifth 

 joints without visible keels; vesicle as wide as the 5-th cau- 

 dal joint; palpi almost smooth; the crests very weakly granular; 

 hand smooth, a little wider than the brachium, not keeled; 

 digits short, with 7 (1 bas + 5 -f-i apic.) rows of granules, 

 which are flanked with 7 larger external granules and 7 inter- 

 nal ones; pectinal teeth 18 — 19 ($) or 19 (cf); total length 

 43 — 51 mm. 



Distribution. This species has at first been descri- 

 bed from Madagaskar, but afterwards w^as found in several 

 localities of East Africa and also in West Africa (Angola). In 

 the British East Africa B. centrurimorplms occurs on the 

 sea-coast (Mombasa),in the basin of Tana-river (Birula 1914, 

 p. 119), near Eldama-river and in the district of the mount 

 Kenia (Athi-plains, Pocock 1896, p. 426); the same species was 

 procured also in many a locality of German East Africa (Vic- 

 toria-Nyanza on the island Ukereve, Kavende, shores of the 

 lakeTanganyika, Ukamba;Kraepelin 1913, p. 182 and Pocock 

 1898, p. 430). 



7. Babycurus wituensis Krpl. 



1913. Babycurus wituensis, Kraepelin, K., Mitt, naturh. 

 Mus. Hamburg, v. XXX, pp. 180—181, 1913 (loc. typ. «c? 

 von Wanga, $ von Pokomonie in Britisch Ost-Afrika». 



Colour of body yellow; trunk with three very weak dark 

 bands above; tail and legs pale reddish yellow; digits of 

 palpi fuscous; carapace of cephalothorax sparsely and finely 

 granular; tergites only in the posterior half of each sparsely 

 granular; sternites not polished, the last with two or four 

 smooth keels; tail gradually expanded to the 5-th joint (d"), 

 or nearly parallel-sided (?). Keels of all the joints granular 

 with the exception of the smooth inferior keels of the first joint; 

 5-th joint parallel-sided ($), or posteriorly attenuated (cT) 



