Blatticlae. 131 



area hyaline, a piceous humeral stripe; 12 costals, 5 longitudinal discoidal 

 sectors, posterior ulnar a branch of the anterior ulnar, anal vein not clearly 

 marked, its apex reaching a point at one-half of the total length of the 

 tegmen. Wings minute, bent across the metauotum, so that their under- 

 surface is uppermost, their apices overlapping, the posterior part not 

 doubled under the anterior part; 3 irregular costals, median vein bifurcate 

 at apex, ulnar vein obsolescent, 4 axillary veins, the first bifurcate. Abdomen 

 above testaceous at base, remainder rufo-castaneous, laterally margined with 

 testaceous; posterior angles of 9th tergite strongly produced backwards; 

 supra-anal lamina transverse, posterior margin concave, posteriorly produced 

 to form a flattened narrow process terminating in two diverging spines. 

 Abdomen beneath rufous broadly bordered with testaceous, a few brown 

 maculae in the testaceous border; subgenital lamina slightly asymmetrical, 

 two styles. Cerci moderate, acuminate, 11-jointed, testaceous above, banded 

 with fuscous beneath. Legs testaceous, anterior coxae spotted with fuscous. 

 Front femora on anterior margin beneath with a complete row of spines, 

 the more distal shorter than the proximal, 2 spines on posterior margin 

 beneath. Mid- and hind-femora strongly armed with 6 7 spines on anterior 

 margin, 4 5 on posterior margin beneath. 



?. As above but the testaceous maculae on disc of pronotum fused. 

 Abdomen shorter and broader, piceous above and beneath (except at base) 

 laterally margined with testaceous. Supra-anal lamina triangular, piceous 

 with a testaceous spot at apex. Subgeuital lamina semi-orbicular, ample. 

 All the coxae spotted with fuscous. 



Length of body (rf) 12 mm., (?) 11.5 mm.; length of tegmina (d) 7.8 

 mm., (?) 7.6 mm. ; pronotum (J and 9) 3.8 mm. X 5 mm - 



Stat. 129, Jarrahdale; Stat. 138, Lunenberg; Stat. 144, Bridge- 

 town. (1 <J, 2 ?, 1 larva.) 



Remarks. A very distinct and remarkable species. 



The ootheca is chitiiious, 6 mm. in length, is divided into 18 loculi 

 and the suture is dentate. In the larva the thoracic tergites are testaceous 

 with a few castaueous spots and broad lateral castaneous bauds outwardly 



margined with hyaline. 







Grenus Temnopteryx Br. 



Temnopteryjc, platysonta (Walk.). 



Plate XIII, Fig. 1, 2. 

 Blatta platysoma WALKEE, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus., p. Ill (1868). 



WALKER'S description is very inadequate, so I furnish a new diagnosis 

 of the species. 



