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thick. Pronotum semiorbicular, not quite covering the head, 

 truncate in front, or emarginate in the middle ; disk more or less 

 excavated. Elytra perfect, corneous, shining, constricted in the 

 middle, or abbreviated, or none. Legs stout, femora unarmed, 

 or the anterior ones only with a few teeth in some species ] claws 

 large, arolia none. Abdomen thick, hindangles of dorsal seg- 

 ments obtuse. Supra-anal lamina broad, rounded. Subgenital 

 lamina of male rounded or transverse, very narrow. 



The family comprises four genera, each with only a few species, 

 two being wholly or chiefly American, the others Indian and 

 Australian ; and is the last in Brunner's system of the Blattarise. 



Panesthia, Serville. 



Ann. Sc. Nat. Zool., XXII., 1831 ; £r., Syst. 390, fig. 58. 



" Black, very shining. Head large ; antennae thick, scarcely 

 longer than the j^ronotum. Pronotum transverse, emarginate 

 and raised over the head, margins broad, disk more or less deeply 

 excavated, and tuberculate. Elytra with costa more or less 

 suddenly deflexed, constricted beyond the costal area leaving the 

 sides of the abdomen and the scutellum visible ; veins indistinct 

 except in the radial and anal areas. Cox» and femora very 

 thick, tibi?e with long spines. Abdomen very convex, coarsely 

 punctured dorsally. Supra-anal lamina very broad. Cerci tri- 

 angular, very short. Subgenital lamina of male small, trans- 

 verse, without styles. 



Of the species recorded by Brunner one is Australian, the 

 others are from the Malay Archipelago, two of them, however, 

 have since been proved to extend to the Northern Territory of 

 South Australia, by specimens in the collection of the S.A. 

 Museum. 



Panesthia morio, Burmeister. 



Haidb., II., 513; Br., Syst., 392. 



Body deep-black. Head black ; ocelli, a band across the face, 

 margin of Uhrum, and ;;«//;i (partly) yellowish ; antennae monili- 

 form, reddish. Pronotum with frontal incision acute, margins 

 deflexed, bi-tuberculate. Elytra deeji-hrown, veins distinct, pale, 

 parallel towards apex. Legs piceoios to brown; fore femora 

 ciliate, unarmed. Abdomen with last dorsal segment laterally 

 dentate. Supra-anal lamina crowdedly toothed. 



Female. Brunner. S.A. Mus. 



Length of body... • ... 33-52 mm. 36 mm. 



Length of elytra ... 37 " (?) 39 " 



Length of pronotum ... 8-12 " 12 " 



Width of pronotum ... 12-5-18" 12 " 



Habitat. — Java, Ceylon, Amboina (Brunner); Northern 



