Mr. R. Shelford’s Studies of the Blattide. 273 
moniliform. Pronotum transversely elliptic, punctate with two deep 
impressions on the dise, humeral angles well marked. Tegmina blue, 
with purplish reflections and some obscure orange maculz on the 
disc, an orange streak on the margin of the tegmen just beyond the 
mediastinal field ; the right tegmen where covered by the left 
reddish-purple. Wings hyaline, marginal field infuseated, with 
purplish reflections, four bifureated costal veins, ulnar vein with 
seven rami. Meso- and metanotum purple. Abdomen orange, the 
last two segments blue, Supra-anal lamina transverse, widely 
emarginate ; sub-genital lamina quadrate with acuminate and 
pubescent styles. Cerci stout, fuscous, Legs dark blue, tarsi fuscous. 
Total length, 13°5 mm. ; length of tegmina 10 mm. 
Mr. Marana, 3000 feet (Shelford coll.). One example 
| No. 9]. 
The species appears to be most closely allied to 
dasytoides, W1k. 
Genus AREOLARIA, Br. 
Areolaria signata, n. sp. 
¢ and 9. Head black, vertex with a testaceous patch on which 
oceur two short black lines, maxillary palps testaceous, antenne 
black, incrassated in the basal half and plumose, the apical half 
with sixteen joints testaceous and the terminal three joints fuscous. 
Pronotum almost quadrangular, broader than long, sides deflexed 
slightly, disc closely punctate, black with a central testaceous vitta 
incompletely divided longitudinally, posterior margin narrowly 
testaceous, lateral margins testaceous-hyaline. Tegmina corneous, 
mediastinal field hyaline, the remainder griseo-testaceous with a 
broad fuscous stripe running along the radial vein then turning at 
right angles to cross the apex of the anal field and to meet its fellow 
of the opposite tegmen, left tegmen with a fuscous stripe on the 
sutural margin, the portion of the right tegmen that is overlapped 
by the left is black and shining; all the veins marked by lines of 
punctures. Scutellum prominent, black, punctate. Wings hyaline, 
marginal field infuscated, thirteen costal veins, strongly incrassated 
and connected by transverse venulw, median vein simple, medio- 
discal area crossed by nine transverse venule, ulnar vein tri-ramose, 
first axillary vein quadri-ramose, triangular apical field very large, 
unequally divided by a longitudinal vein. Abdomen of male flavid 
above, fuscous below, supra-anal lamina, shortly produced, triangular, 
sub-genital lamina narrower, apex deeply and triangularly cleft with 
two short styles, cerci flavid. Abdomen of female broader fuscous 
