4 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MEETJ EXPEDITION. 21: 2, 



three species were found in the littk- island St. Vincent, and one in Madagascar; but 

 during the expeditions made in the last decennium lo Abyssinia, British- and Geman-East- 

 Africa the European Museums, particularly at BerUn and Paris were augmented with many 

 new forms, which I have had occasion to see and examine. 



I have made descriptions and drawings of more than forty new species of this 

 subfamily, and these, which I liope to get occasion to pubhsh afterwards, are yet, as I have 

 written in the year 1899 "certainly but forerunners for a swarm of forms, which the 

 inner Africa shall bring to hght". 



The Eubelinae present habilually very different types, froni the Armadillo like forms, 

 which have a strong ability to conglobation, to the PercelUo-like flattened forms, Ihat the 

 Eubelinae seem to repeat the genuine Otiiscinae building a parallel series of forms. 



Only carefull studies, principallv with the rnouth-parts, can give the decisive criterion 

 for the Separation from the otlier subfamilies. The deep furrow in the first (runcal 

 Segment, separating the epimera from the middle-part of the segment, is present in tlie 

 greater part of the species, however, not in all the species of EnJidiuae, has given 

 a superficial likeness with several other forms of the family, as species of Synarmadülo, 

 PenscypJds and Mierocercns. 



I describe below the four new siiecies collected by the expedition, three of them 

 are representatives for new genera. 



Benechiniis nov. gen. 

 Antennffi flagello biarticulato. Mandibuhe penicillo unico hbero munitse; seta infe- 

 rior e radice brevi ramis paucioribus ciliatis instructa. Maxilhe prioris paris lacinia ex- 

 terior dentibus novem, 4+5 (dens 1. et 4. apice fissus, 2. 3. 5. acutus); lacinia interior 

 apice peniciUis numero c. .sex, post nulla spina. Omnia segmenta trunci post in lami- 

 nam validam transversam declivam producta. Segmentum 1 . sulco epimeri intramarginali 

 solito nullo, margine laterali post fisso. Caudje pleopodes omnium parium tracheis parvis 

 instructi. Telsum medio tetragono producto. Uropodes telso breviores; exopoditum 



parvum, apicale. 



Benechinus armatiis n. sp. 



Tab. 1, Fig. 1 — II. 



Tota superticies minutissime squamata. Oculi parvi, globosi, in angulo anteriore 

 capitis utrinque positi; ocelli numero c. 10. Antennfe breviores, tertiam corporis partem 

 longitudine subeequantes ; flagellum scapi articulo 5. longitudine fequale, arliculo priore 

 altero triplo breviore. Epistoma convexiusculum, supra maxime in mediam frontem re- 

 flexum, margine superiore in medio deleto, ad latera manifesto et utrinque in lobos late- 

 rales ante oculos erectos producto. Clypeus brevis, leviter fornicatus, lobis lateralibus 

 minuUs transverse rotundatis. Linea marginalis verticalis utrinque ante oculos producta, 

 epistoma tarnen non attingens. Trunci segmentum 1. magnum; epimera magna nullo sulco 

 a parte media segmenti discreta, margine laterali tenui, altecincto, angulis anticis et posti- 

 cis late rotundatis, .post supra leviter fisso: lacinia superior magna, rolunda, retroducta. 

 Margo posterior omnium segmentorum in laminam transversam, validam, reclivam, in 



