320 Mr. R Shelford's Studies of the Blattidae. 



between the mediastinal and radial veins, a rufescent macula on the 

 disc. Wings witli marginal field flavous, ulnar vein with 11 rami, 7 

 being incomplete. Abdomen rufo-testaceous ; supra-anal lamina 

 sub-quadrate, apex distinctly emarginate, sub-genital lamina of usual 

 shape. Legs concolorous with abdomen, posterior metatarsi moder- 

 ately elongate. 



^ . Differs only in the greater distance apart of the eyes, larger 

 size, sub-bilobate supra-anal lamina and ample, semi-orbicular sub- 

 genital lamina. 



$. Total length 25-26 mm. ; length of body 20-22 mm. ; length of 

 tegmina 19-22 mm. ; pronotum 6-1 mm. x 8 mm. 



9. Total length 30 mm.; length of body 28 mm. ; length of 

 tegmina 25 "5 mm.; pronotum 10 mm. x 11 "8 mm. 



French Guinea, Kouroussa (Oxford Mas., ^ type ; Paris 

 Mus.); Portuguese Guinea, Bolama (Z. Fca), (Genoa 

 Mus.), ^ type. 



This is a species tliat hitherto I have referred to G. 

 aest'itans, Sauss., but on examining the type of that species 

 I had that it is different from the French and Portuguese 

 Guinea examples here described. 



14. G. maculi2)ennis, Schaum. 



Panchlora maculipennis, Schaum, Ber. Akad. Berlin, 

 1853, p. 776 ; Peters, Reise Mossamb., Zool. v, p. 

 109, PI. VII, fig. 1 (1862). 



Gipia vetula, Brunner von Wattenwy], Nouv. Syst. 

 ' Blatt., p. 267 (1865). 



Distinguished by the piceous antennae, the tegmina 

 mottled with testaceous and the contiguous eyes in the 

 male. 



German East Africa (Vienna Mus., type of vetula ; 

 Berlin Mus. ; Stockholm Mus.) ; Mozambique (Berlin 

 Mus., type of waculiifeanis) ; Rhodesia (Oxford Mus.). 



15. G. kazungulana, Gig.-Tos. 



Gyna hazitngtdana, Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Torino 

 xxii, No. 563, p. 3 (1907). 



This is little more than a local race of the preceding 

 species, it is smaller in size but otherwise scarcely differs. 

 The type specimen has the pronotum heavily suffused 

 with castaneous, but this is not the case in an example 



