Mr. R. Shelford's Studies of the Blattidse. 273 



moiiiliforni. Prouotum transversely elliptic, punctate with two deep 

 impressions on the disc, humeral angles well marked. Tegmina blue, 

 with purplish reflections and some obscure orange maculso on the 

 disc, an orange streak on the margin of the tegmen just beyond the 

 mediastinal field ; the right tegmen where covered by the left 

 reddish-purple. Wings hyaline, marginal field infascated, with 

 purplish reflections, four bifurcated costal veins, ulnar vein with 

 seven rami. Meso- sa\\ metanotum purple. Abdomen orange, the 

 last two segments blue. Supra-anal lamina transverse, widely 

 emarginate ; sub-genital lamina quadrate with acuminate and 

 pubescent styles. Cerci stout, fuscous. Legs dark blue, tarsi fuscous. 

 Total length, 13"5 mm. ; length of tegmina 10 mm. 



Mt. MATA.NG, 3000 feet {Slulford coll.). One example 



[No. 9]. 



The species appears to be most closely allied to G. 

 dasytoides, Wlk. 



Genus Areolaria, Br. 



Areolaria signata, n. sp. 



^ and 9. Head black, vertex with a testaceous patch on which 

 occur two short black lines, maxillary palps testaceous, antennas 

 black, incrassated in the basal half and plumose, the apical half 

 with sixteen joints testaceous and the terminal three joints fuscous. 

 Pronotum almost quadrangular, broader than long, sides deflexed 

 slightly, disc closely punctate, black with a central testaceous vitta 

 incompletely divided longitudinally, posterior margin narrowly 

 testaceous, lateral margins testaceous-hyaline. Tegmina corneous, 

 mediastinal field hyfiline, the remainder griseo-testaceous with a 

 broad fuscous stripe running along the radial vein then turning at 

 right angles to cross the apex of the anal held and to meet its fellow 

 of the opposite tegmen, left tegmen with a fuscous stripe on the 

 sutural margin, the portion of the right tegmen that is overlapped 

 by the left is black and shining ; all the veins marked by lines of 

 punctures. Scutellum prominent, black, punctate. Wings hyaline, 

 marginal field infuscated, thirteen costal veins, strongly incrassated 

 and connected by transverse venulas, median vein simple, medio- 

 discal area crossed by nine transverse venuhe, ulnar vein tri-ramose, 

 first axillary vein quadri-ramose, triangular apical field very large, 

 unequally divided by a longitudinal vein. Abdomen of male flavid 

 above, fuscous below, supra-anal lamina, shortly produced, triangular, 

 sub-genital lamina narrower, apex deeply and triangularly cleft with 

 two short styles, cerci llavid. Abdomen of female broader fuscous 



