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EcTOBiA APiciFERA, Walker (Blatta), Br. Mus. Cat., 110. 

 Greyish-white and brown. Head very broad, vertex forming 

 a transverse ridge. Face pale, except a brown semi-eUiptical 

 spot between the antennse and eyes with white margins and 

 median line. Antennae as long as the body, hairy, pale-greyish. 

 Pronotum wider than long, rounded laterally and in front, 

 straight behind, anterior and lateral margin broadly whitish, 

 former narrowly bordered with black above the eyes, disk brown, 

 with a fine, pale median line and a deep triangular sinus on each 

 side anteriorly. Elytra elongate oval, deep brown, costal and 

 anal margins broadly pale, showing tw^o broad, brown stripes 

 when at rest. Wings pale. Abdomen pale yellowish above, 

 segments bordered dark behind. Underneath pectus and legs 

 pale, abdomen dark with pale margin, last segment and apex 



partly blackish. 



Male. 



Length of body 8 mm. 



Length of elytra ... ... ... ... 6 -5 " 



Length of pronotum ... ... ... 1*8 " 



Width of pronotum 2-6 " 



Habitat. — Mount Lofty Range, South Australia. S. A. 

 Museum ; one adult male. 



An imperfect specimen, referred to this species, has the blackish 

 stripes of the elytra continued over the pronotum, and the black 

 spot of the face more indistinct, but was taken at another place 

 and time. The species, although here recorded under Walker's 

 name, is re-described from the specimens. 



II. PHYLLODROMID.E. 



Wings, when present, without apical triangular area. Elytra 

 and wings perfect or rudimentary ; radial vein without posterior 

 branches or only a single branch emitted towards the apex; 

 branches of ulnar vein oblique ; anal vein similar to that of pre- 

 ceding family. Abdomen of female with last segment large, 

 without subgenital lamina. Supra-anal lamina of both sexes 

 more or less produced, triangular, incised or lobed. Cerci more 

 than twice the length of the lamina. 



LoBOPTERA, Brunner, Syst. 79, fig. 5. 

 Body oblong ovate. Pronotum oblong, or transverse. Elytra 

 abbreviated or lobiform, wings absent. Femora thickly spined, 

 compressed, dilated, also the tibiae. Abdomen flat in both sexes, 

 sometimes wider in the female than the male. Supra-anal 

 lamina triangularly produced, emarginate in the female. Sub- 

 genital lamina of male triangular, obtuse, without styles, or very 

 minute and slender. 



