NO. 1363. EARWIGS AND COCKROACHES— JiFJIN. 555 



spine equal to the spines on the posterior mart^in in length; tibiic 

 a1)out eqiia] to the femora in length; tarsi slightly shorter than the 

 tibiie, metatarsi not quite equal to the remaining joints in length, 

 pulvilli extending almost to the base of the metatarsi. Posterior 

 femora with live spines on the median and distal portions of the ante- 

 rior margin, posterior margin with live spines, genicidar spine rather 

 small; tibia^ about one and one-fourth the length of the femora; tarsi 

 equal to the femora in length, metatarsi equal to the remaining joints 

 of the tarsi in length, pulvilli of the metatarsi small and apical, the 

 lower surface bearing two parallel rows of moderately sized spines, 

 arolia rather small. 



General color dull blackish to blackish brown. Apical margins of 

 the clypeus and labrum dull orange. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



mm. 



Length of body 17.5 



Length of pronotnm 5. 



Greatest width of pronotnm 7. 



Greatest width of nietanotnm 8. 5 



Length of tegmina 3. 



Greatest width of tegmina 2. 1 



Greatest width of abdomen 8. 7 



Genus PERIPLANETA Burmeister 



18.S8. Perlplanetd. Burmeistek, Handl). il. Entom., II, p. 502. 



Ti/pc. — Blatta ainerlcava Linnwus." 



PERIPLANETA PALLIPALPIS (Serville). 



18o9. XdkcrUd- jHtllijxiljiit^ f^KHWLiAi, Orthopteres, p. 71; Java. 



Nine specimens; two males, seven females; Kioto, Japan. (Y. 

 Hirase.) no. 37. [A. N. S. Phila.] 



PERIPLANETA AUSTRALASI.^ ( Fabricius). 



17!);>. IBIdfl'i] 'tiistmlasin- Fabricius, Knt. Syst., II, p. 7; "Capta fre(]nens in 

 nave e mari pacifico <k regionibns Australasian revertente." 



Seven specimens; two females; five larvae; Trong, Lower Siam. 

 (Dr. W. L. Ab))ott.) [U.S. N.M.I Batu Sangkar, Fadaugschc Boven- 

 laiid, Sumatra. Aug.-Sept.. 1901. (A. C. Harrison, jr., and Dr. H. M. 

 Hitler.) [A. N. S. Phila.] Africa. [A. N. S. Phila. | 



PERIPLANETA TRUNCATA Krauss. 



1892. Prriplrmela tnmcatu Kkacss, Zoologischer Anzeiger, XV, p. 165; Teneriffe; 

 Brazil; New Britain. 



5>ix specimens: two males, two females, two immature individuals; 

 Batu Sangkar, Padangsche Bovenland, Sumatra. Aug.-Sept., IJHU. 

 (A. C. Harrison, jr., and Dr. H. M. Hiller.) [A. N. S. Phila. J 



a According to Rehn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXIX, 1903, p. 279. 



