Mr. R. Shelford's Studies of the Blattidae. 309 



deal, sometimes the two maculae on the disc becoming 

 confluent as in lunata. 



" Australia " (Paris Mus., type of soror ; British Mus., 

 type ondquadrata; Oxford Mus., type oioculata); Victoria, 

 Wodonga (Melbourne Mus., type of htnata). 



6. M. impua, Shelf. 



Methana papua, Shelford, Mem. Soc. ent, Belg., xv, 

 p. 234 (1908). 



British New Guinea, Astrolabe District (Genoa Mus., 

 $ type ; Brussels Mus., % type). 



7. M. hosei, sp. n. 



9 . Head, body and legs piceous, froni coxae and a large blotch on 

 the posterior coxae testaceous. Pronotuni sub-quadrate, sides strongly 

 defiexed, bordered all round with ochreous, the border being very 

 broad on the postero-lateral and posterior margins, its inner margin 

 sinuate. Tegmina and wings uniform castaneous, extending con- 

 siderably beyond the apex of the abdomen. Supra-anal lamina tri- 

 angular, cucullate, apex triangularly emarginate. Cerci moderate. 



Total length 29 mm. ; length of body 24 mm. ; length of tegmina 

 23 mm. ; pronotuin 7"9 mm. x 9 mm. 



Borneo, Sarawak, Baram District (0. Hose), (Oxford 

 Mus., type). 



S. ? M. pallipalpis, Serv. 



Kakcrlac pallipalpis, Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orth., 



p. 71 (1839). 

 ? Fcriplaneta pallipalpis, Brunner von Wattenwyl, 

 Nouv. Syst. Blatt., p. 238 (1865). 



As the type of this species is lost, its systematic posi- 

 tion is quite uncertain. Brunner states (Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Geneva, ser. 2a xiii, p. 36 (1893) that the species as iden- 

 tified by him belongs to the genus Methana. 



Java; Sumatra (^/c i/aa/i) ; Australia (^n«wtcr). 



Genus 13. Paramethana, Shelf. 



Faramethana, Shelford, Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro-Meru 

 Exp., Blattodea, p. 31 (1907). 

 Characters. — Differs from Methana in the short tegmina and 

 wings which do not extend beyond the fifth abdominal tergite and 



