164 memoiss of the queensland museum. 



Subfamily PANCHLORIN.^. 



Genus LEUCOPH.EA Brimner v. Wattenwyl. 

 LEUCOPH^A SURINAMENSIS, Linne. 

 Blatta surinainensis Limi., Syst. Nat. {ed. x), i, p. 424, n. 3 (1738). 

 This cosmopolitan species has not been previously recorded from Australia ; 

 but it is widely distributed in Queensland, and further observation will probably 

 reveal its presence in many locaUties other than those here enumerated. Cleveland, 

 where in 1915 I found it under loose stones near the lighthouse, was in early days 

 expected to develop into an important port : but it is more than half a century 

 since any overseas shipping came in there, and it is probable tliat this species has 

 occupied its isolated position at the point of the Cleveland peninsula for many years. 

 Localities. — Queensland : Cleveland, Brisbane (Auct.) ; Townsville, Lizard 

 Island (F. H. Taylor) ; Ajt (L. Kelly) ; Cairns, Gordonvale (J. V. lUingworth). 



Genus NAl'PH(ETA Burmeister. 



NAUPHCETA CINEREA Olivier. 

 Blatta cinerea Oliv. Enc. M6th. Ins., iv., p. 314, n. 3 (1789). 

 Naiiphwla bivittala Burm. Handb. Ent., ii, p. 508, n. 3 (1838). 



Another cosmopohtan species hitherto unrecorded from Australia. 

 Localities. — Ayr (L. Kelly, 1915) ; Brisbane (Q. Mus. : H. Hacker) ; Towns- 

 ville (J. F. lUingworth, F. H. Taylor) ; Cairns, Gordonvale (J. F. lllingworth). 



Subfamily PANESTHIIN^. 



Genus PANESTHIA Serville. 

 The four Queensland species of which brief descriptions are given below appear 

 to be new. Two of them, parva and ohtasa, are fidly winged, although the tegmina 

 and wings may be broken off short in the line of fractxne usual to the genus. The 

 other two, .doanei and tnjoni, are quite apterous. 



PANESTfflA PARVA sp. nc.v. 

 Small, black, nitid, ail visible tergites and sternites thicklj' punctate, the 

 punctures becoming coarser on the abd'iminal ter<f;ites 5, 6, and 7. Head : vertex 

 of ^ with a very large foveola ; margin of the clypeus, ocelliform spots, terminal five 

 segments of the antenna, and tarsi ])alc. I'ldndtuni transverse, anteriorly widely 

 emarginate in ^, the emargination aliimst as \\ide as the intemcular space, and 

 bounded laterally by large, jjroinincnt, rounded, and somewhat everted tubercles ; 

 faintly emarginate in $, not tubcrculate ; disc in J excavated in its anterior f, the 

 excavation showing a prominent median, longitudinal carina, and being bounded 

 posteriorly by 4 or 5 small diverticula. Tegmina and wings either fully explicate, 

 and decpiv iiifuscatc, with dark-brown veins, or broken acro.ss in the manner ciiiiiuKin 

 to the genus. Anterior femora unspined, but for a single aj)ical spine in the posterior 

 Vjorder, no genicular spine. Abdominal tergites with none of the posterior angles 

 sharply produced ; 7th with the lateral maigins entire, the posterior margin straight 

 and the posterolateral angles roundly ])niduced. Supra-anal lamina with the 

 posteiior margin gently arcuate, entire. 



