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Show 1902.] ON ORTHOPTERA FROM BRITISH E. AFRICA AND UGANDA. 93 3. List of a small Collection of Orthopterons 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 represented 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. BLATTINiE. DEROPELTIS. Deropeltis Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 486 (1838). 1. DEROPELTIS MELANOPHILA. Ischnoptera melanophila Walk. Cat. 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 antenna3, and the lower mouth-parts red. POLYPHAGIN^E. POLYPHAGA. Polyphaga Brull6, Hist. Nat. Ins. ix. p. 57 (1835). Heterogamia Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. p. 488 (1838). 2. POLYPHAGA .EGYPTIACA. Blatta cegyptiaca Linn. Syst. ]S"at. (ed. x.) p. 424. n. 2 (1758). One female specimen, Baringo, 4000 feet, Dec. 20, 1899. Widely distributed in Africa and Southern Europe. M ANT IDA MANTIN^E. 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). |
