300 Mr. R. Shelford's Studies of the Blattidac. 



. 3. Rufo-castaneons beneath . . . A. p^mctata., Tepp. 



.'5'. Piceous beneath A. rothei, Tepp. 



['^-1. circumcinctn. Walk. 



Species of uncertain po.siliou < J. /((Zvorno<«, Tepp. 



(.4. ornata, Tepp. 



1. A. poli/.:ona, Walk. (PI. IX, fi-s. 34, 85.) 



Polyzostcria pohjzona, Walker, Cat. Blatt. Biit. i\Ius., 



p. 159 (1868). 

 Anamcsia 2^oIvzona, Sh el ford, [i/i] Fauna Si id west 



Austral., ii, Lief. 9, Blattidac, PI. XIII, f. 10 (1909). 



(^. Rufo-castaneous, nitirl, impunctale, terminal tergites with 

 shallow puncture.s and wrinkles^. Head rufous, antennae testaceous, 

 ocelli indistinct. Pronotum bordered all round with ochreous, 

 nieso- and nielanotum and abdominal termites 1-7 laterally and 

 posteriorly bordered with ochreous. An^fles of 9tli abdominal 

 tergitc lobiform. Supra-anal lamina <piadrate, castaneous at 

 liase, apex ochreous, margins entire, ape.\ truncate, lMn])riate, 

 surpassed by the sub-genital lamina which is quadrate, produced, 

 posteriorly not emarginate, with the styles lateral. Cerci short and 

 fattened, exceeding the suj)ra-anal but not the sub-genital lamina. 

 Abdominal sternites ])osterior]y narrowly margined with flavo- 

 testaceous. Legs ilavo-testaceoiis, spines castaneous. 



9 . Similar to ^ but head and legs rufo-castaneous, antennae 

 rufescent. Angles of 9Lh abdominal tergite more Iol)iform. Supra- 

 anal lamina trigonal, margins serrate, not exceeded by the cerci. 



Length ( (^ ) 21) mm., (?) 32 mm. ; pronotum ( (^ ) 8 mm. x 14 mm., 

 ( 9 ) 10 mm. X 18 mm. 



West Austjiaj.ia, Swan River (British Mus., type). 

 Dirk Hartog, Evadu, Freinaiitle (Michadscii and llart- 

 vicycr), (Havnburg Mus.; Oxford Mus.). 



2. ^1. idiiihii, Tepp. 



Anamcsia lainhii, Tepper, Tr. R. Soc. S. Australia, 

 xvii, p. 70 (1893). 



Known to nic only by tlie description. 



Central Australia, Innaminka (Adelaide Mus., type). 



3. A. frcncliii, Tepp. 



Anamcsid frcnrhii, Tepper, t. c., p. 72 (1893). 



The supra-anal lamina of the male is quadrate with 

 truncate, non-eniarginate, fimbriate apex, tlie lateral 



