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3. List of a small Collection of Orthopterous Insects formed 

 by Sir Harry Johnston in British East Africa and 

 Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with Descriptions of Five 

 new Species. By W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S., Assistant 

 in the Zoological Department, British Museum (Natural 

 History), South Kensington. 



[Received November 28, 1901.] 



The total number of species of Orthopterous Insects repre- 

 sented in the collection is 27, of which 23 are enumerated in 

 the present paper, four species, probably new, remaining over for 

 future consideration. 



Blattid^e. 



Blattin^. 



Deropeltis. 



Deropeltis Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 486 (1838). 



1. Deropeltis melanophila. 



Ischnoptera melanophila Walk. Oat. Blatt., Suppl. p. 146 (1869). 



One male, from Baringo, 4000 feet, Dec. 20, 1899. 



This species was described by Walker from Zanzibar. There 

 are also specimens in the Natural History Museum from 

 Samburu, British East Africa, from Mr. C. S. Betton's collection, 

 and from Mombasa and Madagascar. This species differs from 

 D. erythrocephala Fabr. by the black head, with only a streak 

 within the antennse, and the lower mouth-parts red. 



POLYPHAGINiE. 

 POLYPHAGA. 



Polyphaga Brull^, Hist. Nat. Ins. ix. p. 57 (1835). 

 Heterogamia Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 488 (1838). 



2. Polyphaga ^gyptiaca. 



Blatta cegyptiaca Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) p. 424. n. 2 (1758). 

 One female specimen, Bai-ingo, 4000 feet, Dec. 20, 1899. 

 Widely distributed in Africa and Southern Europe. 



M ant ID ^. 

 Mantin^. 

 Tenodera. 

 Tenodera Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 534 (1838). 



3. Tenodera capitata. 



Tenodera capitata Sauss. Mitth. Schweiz. ent. Ges. iii. p. 69 

 (1869) ; Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxi. p. 293 (1871). 



