FAM. BLATTID.K ig 



4 



25. p. savigiiyi. Krauss, X'eih. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, \"ol. 40, p. 242! iSqo). Egypt. 



26. P. lebedinskii, A.<le\ung. \nn. Mus. Zool. St-Petersb.,\'ol.S, p. 3o5(iqo4). Ab\-ssiiiia. 



27. P. vosselei-i, Shelford, Jahib. \'er. Xaturk. Wiesbaden, \'ol. 61, p. 3S German K. .'\frica. 



(190S. 



38. P. alricollis. Saussuie, Abliandl. Senckenb. Ges. PVankf.X'ol. 21. p. 5.'-o South Africa. 

 (1899). 



29. P. caffni, Stal, Oefv. Vot.-.'\kad. Horli., Vol. i3, p. 166 (iS56). Xatal. 



30. P. patens. Walker, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus. p. 127 (1868). Congo. 

 3i. P. funebris, Shelford, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. p. 122 (1908). Kamerun. 



32. P. bicolor, Shelford, ibidem, p. 122 (igo8). Kamerun, Congo. 



33. P. stygia. Shelford, ibidem, p. 619 (1909). Kamerun. 



34. P. fiiliginosa, Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orth. p. 70 (1839). .Xorth America. 



35. P. insignis, Serville, ibidem, p. 67 (i83q). Ca3'enne. 



36. P. bninnea, ISurmeister. Handb. Ent. \'ol. 2, p. 5o3 (i838). Demerara. 



37. P. tniiicata, Krauss. Zool. Anzeig., \"ol. i5, p. i65 (1892). Cosmopolitan. 



Doubtful species : 



38. P. henis. Eschscholtz, Entomographien, p. 83 (1822). Philppines. 

 3q. P austialis, MacLeay. in King. Survey Coasts Austral. Vol. 2, p. 454 X. .Australia 



(1S27). 



40. P. cyl!ndi'ica,'y hanhev^, Mem. .Acad. Sc. St-Peterb. Vol. 10, p. 279(1826). ?Hab. 



23. Genus HOMALOSILPHA, Stal 



Homalosilpha. Stal, Bih. Svensk. Akad., \'ol. 2, n" i3, p. i3 (1874). 



Characters. — Closely resembles Periplaneta Burmeisler, but the pronotum discoidal, its sides 

 not deflexed, its greatest width at the middle. 



Geographical distribution of species. — India to Sunda Islands, Philippines, Kamerun, 

 Uganda. 



1. /-/. iisfiilata. Burmeister, Handb. Ent., \'ol. 2, p. 5o3 (i838). India to Great Sunda Isl. 



Kakerlac thoraciai, Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orth. p. 69, pi. 2, f. i (i83g). 

 Periplaneta conjigura a, Walker, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus. p. 145 (1868). 



2. H. gaudens, nov. sp, (i). Tonkin. 



3 //. iuniyana, Walker, Cat. Blatt. Brit. Mus. p. i3i (1868). Philippines. 



4. H. dccoi-ata, Serville, Hist. Xat Ins. Orth. p. 99 (1839). Borneo. 



H. decorata. Shelford. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 270, pi. 14, f. 8 (igo6). 



5. H . vicina, Brunner von Wattenwyl, Nouv. Syst. des Blatt. p. 236 (i865). Kamerun. 



PI. 2, Fig. 17. 



6. H. ciuiali.s, Shelford, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. p. 121, pi. 2,f. 8c(igo8). Uganda. 



24. Genus EROBLATTA, nov. gen. 



Characters. — .Antennje moniliform, shorter than the body. Pronotum almost rectangular, as 

 long as broad, sides not deflexed. Teginina and wings considerably exceeding the apex of the abdomen; 



O) H. gaudens. nov. sp. — Male. — Piceous. Pronotum broadlv bordered anteriorly and lateralh' with oclireous, disc with obscure 

 impressions. Tepuina unicoloious Wings castaneous. Supra-anal lamina quadrate, the posterior angles acute, posteriorly concave, surpassing the sub- 

 genital lamina which is quadrate, with the posterior angles acute. Genital styles slender. Cerci moderate. Coxa; and femora piceous. tibia and tarsi 

 rufesceni — Total length 3o mm,; length of body 23 mm, ; length of tegmina 23 mm.; pronotum 7 mm. X 9 mm. — Tonkin. (Type in Oxford Museum.) 



