160 AlKMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Length. — o 19 mm. ; $ 15 mm. 



Types.— :$ and ?, Coll. Auct. (No. 78 ^ ; No. 77 ?). 



Habitat. — Queensland : Lizard Id., Eagle Id. (W. J. Young, July 1916). 



Notes. — Thi-ee specimens were taken by .Mr. Young, a ^ on Lizard Island, 

 and 3 and C on Eagle Island. N.Q. These were sent to me for determination by 

 Mr. F. H. Taylor, F.E.S., of Townsville, who has kindly presented me with the types, 

 and the third specimen is in his collection. The form of the vestigial tegmina and the 

 extraordinary asymmetrical subgenital lamina of the ^ are, as far as I know, unique 

 amongst the Blattin;v. The Lizard Island ^ is larger than that from Eagle Island, 

 which is of the same dimensions as the $ ; but both have the tegmina and subgenital 

 lamina? identical in form. 



CUTILIA MELANESIA Shelf. 

 Shelford : TiHiis, Ent, Sue. Liiul. 1909, p. 291. 



Shelford described the ^ from Torres Sti'ait, and the type is in tlie British 

 Museum. The single $ in my collection from N. Queensland is, I think, to be referred 

 to this species in spite of the fact that the posterior tarsi are unfortunately broken 

 off. In Cutilia the anterior and middle metatarsi also are longer than in Platyzosteria, 

 and this obtains in the $ under consideration. To Shelford's description may be 

 added : — 



$. Head with a broad transverse castaneous stripe occupying the vertex 

 between the eyes ; labrum rufo-castaneous. Mesonotum and metanotum finely 

 impressed punctate laterally, also the abdominal tergites, the punctures encroaching 

 further on the disc in the distal tergites ; 7th abdominal tergite with the posterior 

 margin sinuate. Supra-anal lamina triangular, apex truncate, widely concavely 

 emarginate. Subgenital lamina of the usual Blattine foiiu. Tegmina vestigial, 

 more thickly and coarsely punctate than the mesoiidtum ; wings none. Posterior 

 coxffi with the dorsal surface margined very pale. Anteiioi' and middle metatarsi 

 with a few basal spines beneath. 



Length. — $ 20 mm. Pronotum. 6 mm. x 5-5 mm. 



Type.^^, British Mus. ; of $, Coll. Auct. (Spm. No. 68). 



Habitat. — N. Queensland : Lower Burdekin District (L. Kelly. 19)5). 



CUTILIA NIGROFASCIATA s,,. n.,v. 



Testaceous bandi-d with lilack. Head with the \crt('x c.vposiMl, testaceous; 

 vertex of a blackish-brown coloui-, which is contiiuicd dov.ii the frons in a broad 

 longitudinal stri])c with iricgular edges, the colour gradually diminishing in intensity 

 to the margin of the clypcus and the labrum which are brownish testaceous ; eyes 

 black ; antennte missing cxcej)! the first segmcnf which is bi()v\nish testaceous ; i)alpi 

 pale. Pronotum with th(^ lateral margin a little thickened, and slightly defiexed 

 anteriorly; fore margin truncate; the anterior piirtimi of the disc occu])ied by a 

 black macula, which fades through l)rown into (he testaceous ground colour. Tho 



