38 S.JOSTEDTS KILIMANOJARO-MflRU EXPEDITION. 17: 2. 



Females. 



(24) 1. Fuscous or piceous species. 



(23) 2. Without rufous fasciae on the pronotum.^ 



(8) 3. Head and legs castaneous or rufous. 



(5) 4. Castaneous enjthropeza Adel. 



(4) 5. Rufous. 



(7) 6. 6*'^ and 7*'' abdominal tergites with a fulvous 



macula on either side dichrua Gkrst. (Gold Coast). 



(6) 7. Abdominal tergites uniformly coloured . . . erythrocephala Fab. 

 (3) 8. Head and legs concolorous with rest of body. 



(10) 9. Densely pubescent integerrima Br. 



(9) 10. Not densely pubescent. 



(20) 11. Angles of thoracic tergites strongly produced 



backwards. 

 (19) 12. Species exceeding 24 mm. in length. 

 (18) 13. Posterior margin of pronotum straight. 

 (17) 14. Posterior angles of abdominal tergites spini- 



form. 



(16) 15. 38 mm. in length rubusla Gerst. (Gameroons). 



(15) 16. 25 mm. in length gaboonica Rehn (Gaboon). 



(14) 17. Posterior angles of abdominal tergites not 



spiniform meJanojihUa Wlk. [= speiseri 



Brancs.] 

 (13) 18. Posterior margin of pronotum sinuate. . . . schiveinfurthi Sauss. (Somali- 

 land). 

 (12) 19. Smaller species nigrita Sauss. 



(11) 20. Angles of thoracic segments not strongly pro- 



duced backwards kachovskii Adel. 



(22) 21. Posterior margin of pronotum sinuate . . . barbeyana Sauss. 



(21) 22. Posterior margin of pronotum straight . . . carbonaria Gerst. (W. Africa). 



autraniana Sauss. 

 (2) 23. With rufous fasciae on the margins of tlie 



pronotum paulinoi Bol. (Angola). 



( 1 ) 24. Ferruginous spe(;ies triinipressa Krauss. 



As our knowledge of the genus extends, it \\'ill probably be fouiid that some 

 of these names are synonymous, e. g. D. robusta Gerst. may prove to be the female 

 of D. tuUbergi BoRG. De Saussure gives the range of D. autraniana as West Africa 

 (Abetifi), Somaliland and Gallaland; from the descriptions alone I find it impossible 

 to distinguish de Saussure's species from D. carbonaria Gerst. The following species 

 which have been recorded by various authors as of the genus DeropeUis, either belong 

 to other genera or else are of uncertain position : 



