. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 418 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology Rhysida afra afra (Peters) Ptychotrema atrum Peters, 1855, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 82. 2. Amani, 3000 feet, Usambara Mtns., Cryptops loveridgei sp. nov. Figure 2 Type. Holotype from Mbanja, 400 feet, near Lindi, Tanganyika Territory; collected by Arthur Loveridge, April, 1939. Pareitypes. Three further specimens with the same data as the type. Diagnosis. This species agrees in all particulars with C. aloysii sabaudiae Silv. except in the structur
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 418 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology Rhysida afra afra (Peters) Ptychotrema atrum Peters, 1855, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 82. 2. Amani, 3000 feet, Usambara Mtns., Cryptops loveridgei sp. nov. Figure 2 Type. Holotype from Mbanja, 400 feet, near Lindi, Tanganyika Territory; collected by Arthur Loveridge, April, 1939. Pareitypes. Three further specimens with the same data as the type. Diagnosis. This species agrees in all particulars with C. aloysii sabaudiae Silv. except in the structure of the porose area and the dentition of the end-legs. Description. Resembling C. aloysii sabaudiae in the characters of the body segments and head; sternites fairly thickly and regularly covered. Fig. 2. Cryptops loveridgei sp. nov. Tibia and first tarsus of the end-leg viewed from below. with minute granules, more so in the posterior ones, giving them a shagreened appearance. Porose area thickly covered with numerous pores, reaching well beyond the posterior margin of the last sternite; the posterior border of the coxopleura with a few spines. Prefemur of end-legs with numerous black spine-like hairs below and at the sides, femur with similar but fewer spines; prefemur with a medial apical tooth, femur with a lateral apical tooth, tibia with an apical tooth both laterally and medially, all these very distinct. Tibia with a row of 12-14 minute serrate denticles below, arranged in a slightly sigmoid curve, first tarsus with 5-6 serrate teeth distinctly larger than those of the tibia (Fig. 2). Color. Reddish yellow to reddish brown. Size. Body length of largest specimen 50 mm., of smallest 42 mm. Width of largest specimen mm. Remarks. This is an unusually large species. The specimens on which Silvestri's description of C. aloysii sabaudiae was based seem to have been unusually small (12 mm. in length), even for a species of Cryptops, and may have been immature. The fact tha
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