Mr. R. Shelford’s Studies of the Blattide. 267 
not deflexed, bordered all round with a narrow golden line, the 
line is marginal on the anterior and posterior margins of the pro- 
thorax but submarginal on the lateral margins. Tegmina with 
the mediastinal area, a horseshoe-shaped vitta astride the radial vein 
near its base, and an elongate vitta in the apical part of the marginal 
field, golden (faded to white in dried specimens). The surface of 
the tegmina is somewhat rugulose ; marginal field broad, nine costal 
veins, ulnar vein with nine oblique branches, no division of the 
vein into an anterior and posterior trunk, anal vein strongly impressed, 
Wings infuseated, especially strongly in marginal field and at apex, 
a clear hyaline spot in marginal field ; nine somewhat irregular 
costal veins, ulnar vein with four rami, no apical triangle, first 
axillary tri-ramose. Abdomen piceous ; supra-anal lamina of male 
transverse, of female slightly produced, emarginate ; abdomen beneath 
piceous, the centre of the last few segments rufous, sub-genital 
lamina of the male short, transverse, of the female large, ample ; 
cerci moderate, piceous, apical three joints golden above. Legs 
piceous, apices of coxw and trochanters golden, tarsi and tibial 
spines rufous. Front femora unarmed beneath, mid-femora with 
two spines on anterior margin, three on posterior margin, hind 
femora with two on anterior margin and four on posterior margin, 
all the femora with apical spines on both margins and with genicular 
spines. The genital apparatus of the male appears to be very com- 
plicated. The ootheca is almost:cylindrical, longitudinally finely 
striated, with a longitudinal serrulate crest, it is carried by the 
female with the crest uppermost and the contained eggs vertically 
disposed. The larvee have the anterior and lateral margins of the 
pronotum, the lateral margins of the meso- and metanotum, two 
spots on the metanotum and on the fourth and fifth abdominal 
terga, golden. 
Total length 10 mm.; length of tegmina 6 mm. 
Kucuine. Several examples [Ng. 12]. 
This little cockroach is abundant in decayed wood; in 
general appearance it is unlike the South American species 
of the genus, but I can find no character of sufficient 
importance to entitle it to separate generic rank, unless 
the undivided trunk of the ulnar vein of the tegmina can 
be so regarded. An allied species occurs in Penang, but 
the unique example before me is in such bad condition 
that I prefer to await additional material before describing 
it. Phyllodromia laticeps, Wlk., and P. laticaput, Br., 
should also be referred to the genus Pseudophyllodromia. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1906.—PART TI. (SEPT.) 18. 
