Mr. R. Shelford’s Studies of the Blattide. 235 
anterior femora, Supra-anal lamina slightly produced, trigonal ; 
sub-genital lamina produced, irregular in shape, without styles ; cerci 
mutilated. On each side of the middle line of the sixth abdominal 
tergum appears a mamilliform tubercle with a small orifice at the 
summit of each. 
Total length 10 mm. ; length of tegmina 7 mm. 
Mapras. Five examples. (Oxford Museum.) 
The specimens are in bad condition, and the erect hairs 
in some examples have been rubbed off. I have no doubt 
however of the correct generic position of the species. 
Genus THEGANOPTERYX, Br. 
Theganopteryx apreigera, W\k. 
Blatia apicigera, Walker, Cat. Blatt. B. M. p. 227 (1868). 
g and 2. Rufo-testaceous or flavo-testaceous. Head, antenne, 
legs and cerci fusco-castaneous ; abdomen testaceous above, darker 
below. Pronotum trapezoidal, sides not deflexed, with hyaline lateral 
margins. Tegmina with the apices fuscous, the part of the right 
tegmen overlapped by the left, hyaline, twelve costal veins, anterior 
ulnar vein quadri-ramose, posterior ulnarvein simple. Wings hyaline, 
apex infuscated, marginal field flavo-testaceous, ten to eleven costal 
veins, their extremities swollen, median vein simple, ulnar vein 
bifureate, first axillary vein tri-ramose, triangular apical field 
conspicuous but not projecting beyond the anterior part of the 
wing. Anterior femora not spined beneath, mid- and posterior 
femora with two or three spines only on each margin beneath ; 
formula of apical spines }, {, {; no genicular spine on anterior 
femora. Supra-anal lamina of male short, rounded, of female 
slightly produced ; sub-genital lamina of male ample, with two 
styles. Ootheca with a longitudinal crest and carried with the 
crest uppermost, so that the egys are vertically disposed. Cerci 
elongate. 
Type (Q.) Total length 11 mm.; length of tegmina 9°5 mm. 
ae a - Onn se Me 8 mm. 
on ie » 1lto12mm.; length of tegmina 9 to 10mm. 
JAVA (Wallace—Type), SumatTRA (Weyers), SARAWAK, 
Borneo (Shelford). Nine examples. (Oxford Museum.) 
The position of the ootheca when carried by the female 
before deposition is not a character of sub-family import- 
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