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not defiexed, bordered all round with a narrow golden line, the 

 line is marginal on the anterior and posterior margins of the pro- 

 thorax but submarginal on the lateral margins. Tegmina with 

 the mediastinal area, a horseshoe-shaped vitta astride the radial vein 

 near its base, and an elongate vitta in the apical part of the marginal 

 field, golden (faded to white in dried specimens). The surface of 

 the tegmina is somewhat rugulose ; marginal field broad, nine costal 

 veins, ulnar vein with nine oblique branches, no division of the 

 vein into an anterior and posterior trunk, anal vein strongly impressed. 

 Wings infuscated, especially strongly in marginal field and at apex, 

 a clear hyaline spot in marginal field ; nine somewhat irregular 

 costal veins, ulnar vein with four rami, no apical triangle, first 

 axillary tri-ramose. Abdomen piceous ; supra-anal lamina of male 

 transverse, of female slightly produced, emarginate ; abdomen beneath 

 piceous, the centre of the last few segments rufous, sub-genital 

 lamina of the male short, transverse, of the female large, ample ; 

 cerci moderate, piceous, apical three joints golden above. Legs 

 piceous, apices of coxae and trochanters golden, tarsi and tibial 

 spines rufous. Front femora unarmed beneath, mid-femora with 

 two spines on anterior margin, three on posterior margin, hind 

 femora with two on anterior margin and four on posterior margin, 

 all the femora with apical spines on both margins and with genicular 

 spines. The genital apparatus of the male appears to bo very com- 

 plicated. The ootheca is almost cylindrical, longitudinally finely 

 striated, with a longitudinal serrulate crest, it is carried by the 

 female with the crest uppermost and the contained eggs vertically 

 disposed. The larvpe have the anterior and lateral margins of the 

 pronotum, the lateral margins of the meso- and metanotum, two 

 spots on the metanotum and on the fourth and fifth abdominal 

 terga, golden. 



Total length 10 mm.; length of tegmina 6 mm. 



KuCHlNG. Several examples [No. 12]. 



This little cockroach is abundant in decayed wood ; in 

 general appearance it is unlike the South American species 

 of the genus, but I can find no character of sufficient 

 importance to entitle it to separate generic rank, unless 

 the undivided trunk of the ulnar vein of the tegmina can 

 be so regarded. An allied species occurs in Penang, but 

 the unique example before me is in such bad condition 

 that I prefer to await additional material before describing 

 it. Phyllodromia laticeps, Wlk., and P. laticapd, Br., 

 should also be referred to the genus Pseudoijhyllodromia . 



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