284 Mr. AV. F. Kiiby on a 



The type ot" Jf. Juncea, Sauss. (Rev. Zool. 1864, p. 314), 

 appears to rcj)rescnt a dark form of tliis species. 



Deropeltis similis. 



Isrhnoptera shnilis, Sauss. Rev. Zool. xvi. p. 314 (1864). 

 Naupha^tafoveolata, Walker, Cat. Blatt. p. 42. n. 16 (1868). 



3, Pretoria; 1, Port Elizabeth (Distant); I, Barbertoii ; 

 1, Zoniba (Beudall). East London (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



The legs and pronotum vary somewhat in colour in different 

 specimens. The specimens from Barberton and one of those 

 from Pretoria represent a form of the insect which stands in 

 the same relation to typical Z). similis that D. hrevicoUis 

 occuj)ies towards D. jancea. T). foveolata is a dark form 

 with the pronotum alone uniform black. 



Deropeltis capensis. 



Polyzostcria capensis, Sauss. Rev. Zool. 1864, p. 307. 

 Deropeltisjlavonun-ginata, Bruuu. Syst. Nat. p. 247 (1865). 

 Periplaneta coUaris, Walk. Cat. Blatt. p. 142. n. 51 (1868). 

 Periplaneta decorata, Walk. l. c. n. 52 (1868). 



1, Teafontein, Cape Colony; Cape (Brunner) ; Natal, 

 Port Elizabeth (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



A conspicuous species with a yellow border to the pronotum. 



Deropeltis Distantly sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 17 raillim. 



Female. — Black, shining, especially the head ; lower 

 mouth-parts yellow ; a small yellow dot above the base of 

 each antenna; antennaa dark chestnut-brown, shading into 

 rufo-testaceous beyond the middle ; pronotum finely cribrate- 

 punctate, the rest of the upper surface nearly smooth ; pro- 

 notum with rather broad lateral orange borders, not extending 

 to the hind border ; mesonotum with the lateral carina 

 reddish ; metanotum with a rufo-testaceous spot at the base, 

 on each lateral margin, and a similar spot on the sides of the 

 second abdominal segment (the first segment being covered 

 at the sides by the metanotum) ; cerci dark rufo-testaceous, 

 set with long fine hairs ; legs rufo-testaceous and middle of 

 abdomen beneath reddish. 



1, Pretoria (Distant). 



Allied to D. meridionalis^ Sauss., but larger and diflferently 

 coloured. 



Until the sexes of Deropeltis are better known, it is almost 

 impossible to unit^ them in our collections with anything 

 approaching certainty. 



