BLATTARI^. IT 7 



apice integrum; pedes fulvi, breviusculi, sat rnhusli ; alee anlicce 

 luridce, Irimco humerali et area anali piceis, casta puUide Jluveacenle 

 subkyaiina ; alee poslicce cinereo hyalince. 



Male. Black, narrow, nearly linear, thickly and ratlier roughly punc- 

 tured. Head tawny about the mouth; sockets of ihe antennae leslaceous. 

 Eyes tawny, large, notched, narrowly parted. Palpi tawny. Antennae 

 setulose, much shorter than the body, tawny towards the base. Prothorax 

 short-conical, tawny-bordered, extending rather beyond the bead and 

 forming a slight hood; a slight longitudinal keel on the fore part, which 

 is not truncated ; sides very slightly reflexed ; bind border straight. 

 Abdomen tawny-bordered ; subanal lamina entire. Cerci and styles long, 

 tawny, with blackish tips. Legs tawny, rather short and stout; tibiae with 

 stout spines. Fore wings membranaceous, lurid, narrow ; humeral trunk 

 and anal area piceous, the latter coriaceous ; costa pale yellowish, nearly 

 hyaline; transverse sectors numerous, regular ; intermediate longitudinal 

 veins distinct. Hind wings cinereous, hyaline. I^eugth of the body 8 

 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a, b. Natal. From M. Gueinzius collection. 



Sect. 4. 



26. PEKlSPUiEEIA ^QUA. 



Foem. Testacea, crassa, linearis punctata ; caput nigrum, margine antico 

 paipisque testaceis ; oculi invicem remoti ; prothorax caput perpaiiUo 

 superans ; plaga postica magna suiqaadrata nigro-fusca, angulis 

 posticis subproductis ; mesothorax et melat/iorax fusco plagiati ," 

 abdomen fasciis fuscis abbreviatis inlerruplis ; cerci minimi; pedes 

 breves, crassi. 



Female. Testaceous, convex, thick, linear, punctured, shining. 

 Head black, almost extending to the fore border of the prothorax ; fore 

 part and pal|)i testaceous. Eyes livid, very wide apart. Antennae tawny, 

 testaceous at the base. Prothorax conical ; its length rather shorter than 

 its breadth; a large blackish brown subquadrate patch on the bind part of 

 the disk; fore border not truncated ; sides rounded, much reflexed; hind 

 border nearly straight ; hind angles slightly elongated. Mesothorax and 

 metathorax with some dark brown patches and with very slightly elongated 

 hind borders, the former with rudimentary fore wings. Pectus with brown 

 patches on each side. Abdomen longer and more finely punctured than the 

 protliorax ; a dark brown abbreviated band on the hind border of each 

 segment, twice interrupted on each side; supra-anal lamina rounded, 

 entire ; under side dark brown, with a reddish disk and a testaceous border. 

 Cerci extremely short. Legs short, thick ; femora unarmed ; tibiae with 

 short black-tipped spines ; first joint of the tarsi as long as the second and 

 third together; arolia large. Length of the body 10 lines. 



a ? From Mr. Vigors' collection. 



Sect. 5. 

 Mas. Corpus ellipticum. Caput parvum, transverse sulcatum. Oculi 

 iuvicem valde approximati. Prothorax semicirculaiis, caput louj^e 



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