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Mr. R. Shelford’s Studies of the Blattide. 
IV. Tue Tyee or Lpilampra brasiliensis, Fab. 
Fabricius’ description in his “Systema Entomologiz,” 
1775, p. 272, of this species is as follows: 
“ B. pallida, abdomine atro. 
“Habitat in Brasilia. Jus. Dom. Banks. 
“Paulo major B. lapponica. Tota pallida, abdomine 
subtus atro. Antennee fuscze.” 
So brief a description of a member of a genus including 
numbers of cryptically-coloured species, renders its deter- 
mination by subsequent authors almost impossible. ‘The 
synonymy of the species according to Brunner (Nouv. 
Syst. d. Blatt. 1865, p. 159) is :— 
Epilampra brasiliensis, Burm. Handb. u, p. 505 (1838). 
Blatta maculicollis, Serv., Ins. Orth. p. 92 (1839). 
? Blatta grisea, De Geer, Mém. Ins. iu, p. 570, n. 7, pl. 
44, f. 9 (1778). 
¢ Blatta grisea, Oliv. Enc. Méth. T. iv, p. 319, n. 35. 
? Phyllodromia burmeisteri, Guér. Ile de Cuba, Anim. 
Art. p. 845 (1857). 
None of these species can be recognized with certainty, 
since the descriptions of them are inadequate and the 
types of some are missing. The Hope Museum at Oxford 
contains some drawings made by the late Professor West- 
wood of several of Serville’s types, amongst others the type 
of Blatta maculicollis, and on comparing this with the Fa- 
brician type of Blatta brasiliensis in the Banksian cabinet 
at the British Museum I have come to the conclusion that 
the two species are distinct. Brunner’s own description 
does not apply to the Fabrician type, nor to the drawing 
of maculicollis, and I would therefore suggest the name of 
Epilampra burmeistert, Guér., for this species. Hpilampra 
burmeistert has been well described also by de Saussure 
(Mém. Mex. Blatt., p. 131), though I am by no means cer- 
tain if this author had the opportunity of seeing Guérin’s 
type which came from Cuba. Examples in the Oxford 
Museum from Jamaica, Guiana and Brazil appear to be 
identical with each other and they correspond well with 
Brunner’s and de Saussure’s descriptions. It remains then 
only to give a detailed description of the Fabrician type. 
