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BLATTIDAE FROM NORTHERN SARAWAK. 



DiPLOPTERA MACULATA n. Sp. 



9 . Head free, black, vertex and mouth parts dull 

 orange ; antennae (mutilated) with their first 15 joints black, 



remainder brown. Prono- 

 tum roughly oval, hinder 

 border nearly straight, 

 orange-testaceous ; a tri- 

 angular black macula 

 behind the centre, a 

 slanting black vitta on 

 either side of it, the two 

 vittae converging forwards, 

 but not meeting ; very 

 finely punctured. Tegmina 

 just exceeding the abdo- 

 men, uniform dull orange- 

 testaceous, closely and 

 deeply punctured. Wings 

 clear hyaline, mediastinal 

 area opaque, venation 

 similar to that of D. dytis- 

 coides Serv. 1st abdomi- 

 nal tergite black ; 2nd 

 Fig. 17. Diploptera maculata n. sp. laterally with narrow 

 X 3 ; 9 , Pah Trap Kalabit country. orange margins ; 3rd to 

 7th with broad orange margins, each containing a round 

 black spot ; 8th tergite and supra-anal lamina entirely orange ; 



Fig. 18. Diploptera maculata n. sp. 

 Right wing X 4. 



9 , Pah Trap Kalabit country. 



abdominal sternites black wdth very narrow lateral orange 

 borders. Cerci orange. Legs black. 



9- Total length 15 mm.; body 14 mm.; pronotum 3x4 

 mm. ; tegmina 12 mm. ; wings 20 mm. 



