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MESOZOIC INSECTS OF QUEENSLAND, VI., 



veins, the fifth forked near its base, the sixth forked further 

 distad, the seventh only partly preserved. So far as preserved, 

 M shows four branches, Cu six. No signs of intercalated veins 

 or cross-veins. Anal area well defined, with strongly marked 

 vena dividens, and anal veins unbranched. What is probably 

 the first anal vein is only just indicated by a slight impression 

 near the top of the area; then follow two widely spaced veins, 

 corresponding exactly with the second and third anal veins of 

 S. reticulata, n.sp.; below these are about six more veins, closer 

 together, and not quite so irregularly curved as in S. reticulata. 



Text-fig.37. 



Samaroblatta blahello'ides, n.g. et sp. ( x lh). Left tegmen. Upper Trias 



of Ipswich, Q. Drawn from Specimen No. 1316. 



Type, Specimen No. 1316. (Coll. Queensland Geological 

 Survey). 



Horizon: Upper Triassic, Ipswich, Q. 



In spite of the difference in the structure of the veins in the 

 region of Sc and R, and the absence of intercalated veins and 

 cross-veins, this species would appear to be closely allied to S. 

 reticulata. As far as it is preserved, the branching of R is 

 closely similar in the two species, while the arrangement of the 

 anal veins shows also a very close parallelism. 



The specific name has been given on account of the thickened 

 veins in the anterior region of the tegmen, reminding one of the 

 similar condition in the well known genus of recent cockroaches, 

 Blabella Candell (= PhyJlodromia Serville, preoccupied), of 



