BLATTARI^. 105 



Male. Black, fusiform, nearly flat, smooth, shining. Head extend- 

 ing rather beyond the prothorax, wiih a pale yellow spot on each side 

 adjoining the socket of the antenna. Eyes black, wide apart. Palpi 

 testaceous, black towards the tips. Antennae black, lawny at the tips. 

 Prothorax testaceous, narrower in front; fore border hardly truncated; 

 sides rounded and slightly reflexed ; bind border slightly rounded; disk 

 piceous, divided by a longitudinal line and a transverse line into four 

 patches. Abdomen testaceous towards the base beneath. Cerci long. 

 Legs testaceous, rather slender ; femora with slender spines. Wings 

 piceous, extending much beyond the abdomen. Fore wings tawny along 

 the costa, the latter pale yellow towards the base ; humeral trunk black. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. ? 



82. Blatta fulvipes. 



Mas. Nigra, glabra, nitens ; caput prolhoracem perpaullo stiperans ; 

 oculi rufi vix late di^juncli ; antenna sal validcc, corpore non 

 longiores ; prothorax margine antico lateribusque Jtavis, margine 

 postico perparum rotundato ; pedes fulvi, graciles ; ala anlicce 

 ferruginem, costa albida subhyalina fere recta; alee posticce cinerece, 



Male. Black, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head extending very little 

 beyond the prothorax. Eyes red, moderately wide apart. Antennee black, 

 setulose, rather stout, not longer than the body. Prothorax muuh narrower 

 in front, bordered with pale yellow along the fore border and on each side; 

 sides rounded ; hind border very slightly rounded. Abdomen piceous 

 beneath. Cerci long, stout. Legs tawny, slender. Wings extending 

 much beyond the abdomen. Fore wings ferruginous; costa nearly straight, 

 whitish and nearly hyaline, this hue broadest at the base and not extending 

 to the tip ; costal veins strongly marked ; anal furrow slight. Hind wings 

 cinereous. Length of the body A\ lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



a Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



83. Blatta lituricollis. 



Mas. Testacea ; caput sparse punctatum, nigra fasciatum, prolhoracem 



sat superans ; palpi apice picei ; prothorax nigro bivittatus, lateri- 



bus rolundatis pellucidis ; cerci picei, alee abdomen sat superanles ; 



alcB anticcE area cosiali lata hyalina ; aim posticcB cinerece, piceo 



venosce, 



Male. Testaceous, fusiform, smooth, shining, nearly flat. Head 



thinly punctured, extending somewhat beyond the prothorax, with a regular 



broad black band in front. Palpi with piceous tips. Eyes black, large, 



moderately wide apart. Prothorax much narrower in front; fore border 



slightly truncated; sides dilated, hyaline, rounded; hind border very 



slightly rounded ; two black stripes which diverge very slightly from each 



other hindward and are notched on the outer side, and are abbreviated at 



each end. Supra-anal lamina entire. Cerci piceous, setose, stout, about 



one-fourth of the length of the abdomen. Legs stout ; femora with rather 



stout spines; arolia moderately large. Fore wings membranous, extending 



somewhat beyond the abdomen; costa rounded; costal area broad, pellucid, 



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