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Deropeitis sculpturata Krauss. 



Deropeltis sculpturata Krauss, Zool, Jahrb., Abt. f. Syst., V, 

 p. 651, pi. 45, ff. 2, 2A (1891). 



Dr. Neave obtained some spécimens which I regard as the 

 females of this species, previously known from the maie sex only. 



9 Opaque piceous; head rufous; legs testaceous. Dorsal surface closely 

 and rainutely punctate and with a sparse olivaceous tomentum . Pronotum 

 anteriorlv with 2 dépressions, the dise with some smooth spaces. Posterior 

 angles of thoracic tergites scarcely produced, those of abdominal tergites 5-7 

 very shortly produced. Posterior margin of pronotum faintty sinuate. Disc of 

 abdomen at base castaneous. 



Total length 19 mm.; pronotum 5 mm. X 8 mm. 



Loc. : Kambove-Chitura, Dikulwe, Chaka-Kundiganu,Kayambo, 

 13 examples. 



Bantua valida sp. n. 



B . stigviosae Krauss affinis, sed latior ; pronotum antice tuber- 

 culatum, disco rugoso punctatoque, anguUs posticis (q) retro- 

 productis, iiiarginibus anticis reflexis ; tegniïna (c?) hyalitia, vasi 

 castaneo. 



cf Head piceous, distance apart of ej'es on vertex of liead less than width 

 of ist antennal joint. Pronotum castaneous, anteriorl}^ tuberculate with a 

 short médian carina, dise rugose and punctate, anterior margin slightty 

 reflexed, posterior angles not produced, posterior margin minuteh^ dentate. 

 Tegmina and wings extending considerablj^" be5'ond the apex of the abdo- 

 men. Tegmina with the veins and the basai third castaneous, the remainder 

 hyaline. Disc of abdomen and legs testaceous, margins of abdomen casta- 

 neous. 



9 Piceous. Head puiictate, distance apart of eyes on vertex of head 

 gi'eater than width but less than length of ist antennal joint. Pronotum as 

 in cf but larger and with the posterior angles backwardl}^ produced ; meso- 

 notum and metanotum coarsely punctate, the posterior angles of the former 

 slightly produced. Abdominal tergites finely rugose-punctate, sternites nitid 

 and posteriori)- margined with castaneous. Cerci small, ovate, testaceous. 

 Legs rufo-castaneous. Supra-anal lamina rotundate. 



Total length (cf ) mm. ; (9) 20 mm. ; length of body (cf) 19 mm. ; length of 

 tegmina 20 mm. ; pronotum (cf) 5.5 mm. x 6 mm. ; (9) ^ mm. X 8 mm. 



Loc. : Kambove-Kipaila : i O*, 7 99. 



