Tomo I.— Memoria 27. 



BLATTir>AE 



OF 



SPANISH GUINEA 



R. SHELFORD 



This small collection was entrusted to me for examination one 

 or two years ago by Sr. D. Ignacio Bolivar but I have only re- 

 cently had an opportunity to examine it critically. As might have 

 been expected the majority of the species are already known 

 from Kamerun, from which district large collections of cock- 

 roaches have been sent to European museums and have been 

 studied by Gerstaecker, Borg and myself. 



Gen. Theganopteryx Brimner. 



1. Theganopteryx nitida Borg. 



I d . Previously recorded from Kamerun. 



2. Theganopteryx lucida Br. 



I 9- A variety with the pronotum strongly marked with two 

 fuscous vittae. 



I have examined the type of this species, now in the Stettin 

 Museum; Brunner suggested Australia as the habitat of the 

 species but I have found identical specimens in collections from 

 West Africa and belie\e that the type came from Old Calabar 

 originally. 



Memorias de la Sociedad espauola de Historia natural, tomo r, 1900, 



