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crossed by transverse nervules, a small triangular apical field. 7"' abdominal tergite 

 depressed, its posterior border emarginate, the scent-glands opening at the bottom 

 of the depression, 8*'^ tergite widely emarginate posteriorly, 9*^'' tergite exposed. 

 Supra-anal lamina large, quadrate, posterior angles acute. Cerci elongate. Sub-genital 

 lamina asymmetrical, produced. Front femora with several spines on the anterior 

 margin beneath, tlie distal ones minute, formula of apical spines j, }, {, no genicular 

 spines on the front femora. 



Length of body 12 mm; length of tegmina 9,j mm, pronotum 3mm x 3,'.i mm. 



Meru: Rain forest 3000 m, 1 $ (January). 



I belive this to be the male of Adelung's species described from Abyssinia 

 from a female only. Dr. Adelung was not quite certain if this species and brachyptera 

 Adel. also described from a female, were rightly x-eferable to the genus Malloloblatta. 

 The male of kraussi certainly does not conform quite strictly to the generic type as 

 represented by M. ■pubescens Sauss. and Zehnt., and M. pilosella Sauss. and Zehnt. 

 from Madagascar, for the pronotum is not >chiffonee», the supra-anal plate is pro- 

 duced and quadrate instead of transverse, the form of the dorsal abdominal tergites 

 and scent-gland opening is different and the front-femora are armed according to the 

 type A of Saussure instead of according to type B. Nevertheless in the erect 

 pubescence, and in the venation of tegmina and wings M. kraussi shows such close 

 affinities to the Mascarene species that for the present it may be allowed a resting- 

 place in the same genus. The discovery of the females of the Mascarene species may 

 occasion the erection of a new genus for the continental forms in which sexual dimor- 

 phism is a leading characteristic. 



Gen. Hololailipra Sauss. 



Two species of this characteristically Palaearctic genus occur in the Kilimandjaro 

 region, one species only is represented by both sexes and the male of this differs 

 from those of all the other representatives of the genus by the length of the wings. 

 The females of the two species may be distinguished as follows: 



1. Testaceous, tegmina and pronotum with brown points . sjostedti n. sp. 

 1'. Abdomen and head piceous aethiopica n. sp. 



H(»lolani|)ra *thiopica n. sp, 



( Plate -2. V\ii. 1.1 



o. Piceous. Antennae fuscous. Pronotum trapezoidal, margins broadly hyahne, 

 disc with scattered brown points or with dark castaneous blotches symmetrically 

 arranged. Scutellum exposed. Tegmina equal to the body in length, clear testaceous 

 with scatted castaneous points on the veins and minute brown maculations between 

 the veins; 9 — 10 constal veins, 5 — 6 oblique discoidal sectors, anal vein impressed. 

 Wings abbreviated, reaching the 6*'' abdominal tergite, hyaline veins infuscated, 



