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cT. Length 6 mm.; pronotum 2 mm. x 2,r> mm. 



?. » 7 — 8 mm.; » 2,2 mm. x 3,i mm. 



Kilimandjaro: Kiboscho, »Bergwiesens 3,000 metres. Meru rain-forest, 3,500 m. 

 5 J'cf and a large number of ??. 



Were it not for the presence in the series, of female specimens with the ootheca 

 ]n-otruding from the cloaca, these minute cockroaches might readily be overlooked as 

 larval forms of an unknown species of Phyllodromia or Isdmoptera. The species from 

 Abyssinia described but not named by Aelung (Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. St. 

 Petersbourg vol. IX p. 48, fig. 9 (1904)) may be referred to the genus Apteroblatta 

 and named after the distinguished Russian entomologist Adelimgi. 



Fam. Epilaiiiprida?. 



Gen. Calolaiiipra Sauss. 



I'iilolampra .aptera Schulth. 



C'alolamp)-a aptera de Schulthess Schindlee, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) Vol. XIX p. 169, 



PI. II. fig. 2 (1898). 



Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto. Lower Meru: Ngare na nyuki (November— January). 

 Usamhara: Tanga. 2 <S(S, 5 larvae. Previously recorded from Ogaden and Kili- 

 mandjaro. 



Gen. Eustegasta Gerstaecker. 



A careful examination of several species of this genus has convinced me that 

 the genus is more naturally placed in the family Epilainpridoi than in the Pcrispha'- 

 riidce. The femora are armed, though sparsely, beneath, the front femora with three 

 to four spines on the anterior margin, the hind femora with two to three on the 

 anterior margin and one to two on the posterior margin, the mid femora are unarmed 

 or else bear one spine on tlie anterior margin. The supra-anal lamina of the female 

 is produced and generally the apex is cleft, so that it appears sub-bilobate. The 

 facts that the sexes are alike and that the species are viviparous add a little more 

 support to the view, based on structural features, that Eustegasta is out of place in 

 the Perisphaeriidse. 



Pronotum and tegmina marked with rufous .... ptecila Schaum. 

 Pronotum and tegmina unicolorous obsoleta Kirbv. 



Eustegasta obsoleta Kirby. 

 Eustegasta obsoleta Kirby, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vol. V. p. 287, 1900. 

 Usambara: Tanga (June). One female. The species has also been recorded from 

 Nyassaland. 



Kiistega.sta ptjecila Sch.\tjm. 



Panchlora -pcecila Schaum., Ber. Akad. Berlin p. 777 (1853); Peter's Reise Mossamb., Zool. 



vol. V. p. 109, pi. 7. f. 2 (1862). 



