48 Mr. R. Shelford on some new Species of Blattide. 
and all the tibiz flavo-testaceous; tibial spines rufo-castaneous, 
apical joints of tarsi fuscous ; femoral spines as in preceding 
species, except that the mid femora have no spines beneath. 
Total length 13°8 mm. ; length of body 10 mm. ; length 
of tegmina 10°8 mm. 
Congo (Dybowski, 1896) ; two examples (Paris Museum). 
Nearest to H. Lueci, Dom. 
Genus Exuipsica, Sauss. & Zehnt. 
Ellipsica rugosa, sp. n. 
?. Black, narrowly elliptical, convex. Head punctate; 
clypeus, mouth-parts, and antennz flavo-testaceous. Sides 
of the thoracic tergites strongly deflexed, their posterior 
angles acute and produced backwards, their surface beset 
with tubercles, between which are numerous punctures; on 
the meso- and metanotum the tubercles are in a double row, 
on the pronotum they are less regularly placed. Abdominal 
tergites transversely divided by a sulcus into two unequal 
portions ; the anterior narrow portion is impunctate and 
smooth, the posterior portion is marked by a double row of 
punctures followed by a double row of tubercles; the 
transverse sulci are laterally very deep, especially in the 
posterior segments, and one row of punctures hes in these 
sulci; on the seventh tergite the tubercles are larger and 
less regularly arranged than in the preceding segments. 
Supra-anal lamina quadrate, margined, tuberculate. Abdo- 
minal sternites transversely divided by sulci like the tergites, 
punctate but not tuberculate; subgenital lamina ample, 
punctate. Legs black, tarsi flavo-testaceous, arolia large. 
Total length 15 mm. ; pronotum 5 mm. x7 mm. 
West coast of Madagascar (Lantz, 1882) ; two examples 
(Paris Museum). 
The species is quite unlike any other of the genus in its 
tuberculate characters. 
Genus PsEupoGLoMERIS, Br. 
Pseudoglomeris magnifica, sp. 0. 
9. Brilliant metallic green or blue-green. Head punc- 
tate; eyes 1 mm. apart; base of antenne and palpi 
flavid, apical half of antennz fuscous, middle section 
castaneous. Pronotum semiorbicular, posterior angles back- 
wardly produced ; anterior border margined and slightly 
