42 SJOSTEDTS KlI.IMANI),JARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 2. 



Total length 10,") mm.: length of body 7.'' mm.: length of tegmina 9 mm.: 

 pronotum 2 mm. x 2,9 mm. 



Lower Mem: Ngare na nyiiki (January); 2 cTcT. 



Gen. Spliecopllila Shelf. 



8])lioc()|)hilii termitiuiu sp. n. 



d'l. :!. figs. 1—2.) 



c?. Fulvous, rufo-fimbriate. Head with vertex not covered by pronotum, an- 

 tennae consisting of 30 joints, similar in structure to those of *S'. polyhiarinv mihi,^ 

 frons swollen, ocelli minute, eyes much reduced. Body above with a minute recum- 

 bent pubescence, margins rufo-fimbriate. Posterior margins of pronotum and of 

 mesonotum slightly obtusely angled, postero-lateral angles of meso- and meta-notum 

 backwardly produced. Ten abdominal tergites visible, 8*^'i and 9*'' very narrow almost 

 concealed beneath the 7**^, supra-anal lamina quadrangularly produced, angles rounded, 

 posterior margin slightly excised; cerci short, one-jointed, acuminate; seven abdominal 

 sternites visible, subgenital lamina sub-triangularly produced, rounded, with a pair 

 of slender styles, podical plates prominent, tumid. Legs as in S. polyhiayum, except 

 that there is an anterior apical spine on the front femora, genicular spines of first 

 and second femora very stout and long. 



Total length 7,i mm.; pronotum 2,i mm. x 4,i mm. 



Kilimandjaro : Kibonoto, March 1906. 2 cTcf from nest of Termes hellicosus. 



It is certainly surprising to find a species of cockroach symbiotic with termites 

 in E. Africa, congeneric with a South American species living in a wasp's nest; I have 

 utterly failed to find, however, any characters entitling the former species to separate 

 generic rank from the latter. The large size and the brilliant fulvous colour of the 

 African species readily serve to distinguish it from S. polyhiarum, but in both species 

 the structure of the head, eyes, mouth-parts, form of the body, armature of the legs, 

 shape of the terminal abdominal scutes is closely similar. Dr. Sjostedt's specimens 

 have been preserved in alcohol and the abdominal segments have become somewhat 

 distended, so that the podical plates appear very prominently, but they are also 

 clearly visible in dried specimens of polyhiarum and their prominence may possibly 

 be regarded as a character of the genus. Further collections of cockroaclies symbiotic 

 with other insects will reveal perhaps some day the wide distribution of this genus. 

 At present the species described here is the only cockroach living in compauN^ with 

 social insects that has yet been recorded from the Old World. 



Gen. EiitliyiTlinplia Buem. 



The cosmopolitan species E. pacifica Coq. has been recorded fro)n Wanga (von 

 DER Decken). 



' Trans. Kiit. Soc. Lomloii litofi, )>. 518. 



