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(Usambara, Mkata, Morogoro, the Oologolo-mouutaiiis, Dares- 

 salam. Lindi: Kraepelin 1913, p. 182). 



9. Uroplectes fischeri (Krsch). 



1879. Lepreus fischeri K a, t a cii, F., Mitth. Munch. Entom. 

 Verein, v. Ilf, p. 124 (loc. cit. .e Barawa SomaU"). 



Synonyiiia: UroiJlectes fischeri var. nigrimanus, Pocock, 

 R., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 130, pi. XIV, fig. 2, 1890; 

 Vroplectes fischeri, Pocock, P., Ann. and Mag. nat. Hist., ser. 

 6, V. XVII, p. 387, 1896; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 55, 

 1900; Kraepelin, K., Zool. Jahrb., Syst., v. XVIII, p. 566, 

 1903; Lonnberg, E., Ark. for Zool., Bd. 7, M 24, p. 3, 

 1912; Kraepelin, K., Mitt, natiirh. Mtis. Hamburg, v. XXX, 

 p. 178, 1913; Birula, A., Ann. Mus. Zool. Petrograd, v. 

 XIX, p. 116, 1914; id., Revue russe d'Entomol., v. XV, p. 52, 

 1915. 



Colour of body yellow; trunk above of a greenish black 

 or dull olivaceous colour; carapace of the cephalothorax orna- 

 mented with yellow patches mostly on the sides; all the ter- 

 gites with three very narrow yellow longitudinal bands: se- 

 venth tergite paler than the preceding; trunk greenish, or 

 oiivaceo-testaceous below; palpi pale yellow except the hands, 

 which are dark, almost greenish black, or piceous; the apical 

 half of digits hardly paler; the first three caudal joints are 

 pale yellow, with black spots and short bands below, the 

 fourth slightly reddish, the fifth and the vesicle wholly reddish 

 black; carapace without crests, almost wholly smooth and 

 polished or finely and sparsely granular at the sides; tergites 

 also almost wholly smooth, polished, with a smooth median 

 keel: the seventh tergite somewhat closely but finely granu- 

 lar; sternites wholly smooth, sparsely punctured; the fifth 

 slightly pitted but not punctured; tail nearly parallelsided 

 wholly without keels below and with almost obsoletely gra- 

 nular superior keels only on the last joint; first and second 

 caudal joints furnished postei'iorly on each side of the su- 

 perior sulcus with one, or two large tooth-shaped granules; 

 on the other joints each superior keel is represented by a 

 row of pits; the upper surface of all the joints smooth and 

 polished in the sulcus; the fifth joint posteriorly hollowed; 

 lower surface of all the joints thickly and coarsely pitted and 



