72 ORTHOPTERA. 



Antennas pulaescent, rather stout, a little longer than the body ; joints 

 compact, very numerous. Protliorax much narrower in front, with a 

 broad, paler, nearly hyaline lamina on each side, which is rounded ; 

 hind-border straight; fore-border truncated. Abdomen extending 

 beyond the hind wings ; styles rather long and stout. Cerci very 

 long, piccous towards the tips. Legs stout ; femora with a few short 

 bristles ; arolia large. Wings not extending beyond the abdomen. 

 Fore wings with a broad, tliickly and irregularly reticulated costal 

 area ; costa rounded ; veins pale testaceous ; post-medial costal veins 

 forked; transverse sectors rather numerous and irregular. Hind 

 wings pale cinereous ; veins pale testaceous. Length of the body, 

 5| lines; of the wings, 16 lines. (Walker.) 

 New Zealand (Colonel Bolton) . 



B. LATiPENNis. Brunner von Wattenwyl, Nouveau Sijsteme des 

 Blattaires, p. 109 (Phtjlloclromia) , (1865). 



Male and Female. Testaceous. Head large, brown; pronotum 

 broad, truncated before and behind, pellucid ; disc the same colour. 

 Elytra arched, broad at the shoulders ; anal vein sinuated, scarcely 

 impressed, reaching the border near the middle. Points of the wings 

 obtuse. Scapular vein with six branches, the other veins irregular. 

 Abdomen ferruginous, above and below bordered with brown. 



Length : Male, 10 mm. ; female, 12 mm. 



Auckland ("Novara" Exp.) ; Ceylon (Sidney). 



Genus-PEEIPLANETA. 



Burmeister. 



Wings small or none. Femora armed with many spines. AjDical 

 ventral segment of the female with valves. Cerci extending beyond 

 the supra-anal lamina, which in both sexes is emarginated or quadrate, 

 acutely angular or lobate. 



P. FORTiPES. Walker, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus., p. 137 (1868). 

 Polyzosteria novce-seelandice : Watt, Blatt., p. 218. 



Male and Female. Black, fusiform, shining, very thickly and 

 minutely punctured. Head smooth, extending a little beyond the 

 prothorax in the male, but not in the female ; sockets of the antennse, 

 fore-border, and palpi piceous. Eyes piccous, wide apart. Antennae 

 slender, dark red, black towards the base, as long as the body. Pro- 

 thorax widening from the fore-border to the hind-border, with a very 

 shallow furrow on each side; fore-border hardly truncated; sides 



