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Habitat. — Madeira, St. Thomas, Columbia (Burm.); Batavia 

 (Br mine)'); Sumatra (de Haa7i); Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, 

 Australia (Walker, Brit. Mus. Cat., 324)." 



Periplaneta ligata, Brunner (Syst., 237). 



" Brownish ferruginous, with the anterior and lateral margin 

 bordered yellow. Legs testaceous, middle tibiae bordered 

 brownish, hind tibise wholly brown. Supra-anal lamina of male 

 quadrate, triplicate ; of female much produced, middle sub- 

 carinate, hindmargin deeply emarginate, angles acute. Sub- 

 genital lamina of male transverse, subemarginate ; styles very 

 long. 



Male and Female. 

 Length of body ... ... ... ... 25 mm. 



Length of elytra... ... ... ... 22 " 



Length of pronotum ... ... ... 7 " 



Width of pronotum ... ... ... 10 " 



Habitat. — Moreton Bay, Port Curtis, Queensland." 



Periplaneta inclusa, Walker (Brit. Mus. Cat., 127). 



" Blackish, fusiform, smooth, shining, yellow beneath. Head 

 yellow, a piceous band across the face. Pronotum with two 

 yellow bands connected on each side and forming an irregular 

 fusiform ringlet, hinder band much broader and more irregular. 

 Elytra and wings extending a little beyond the abdomen, former 

 semicoriaceous, towards base corneous, blackish, with a yellow, 

 subcostal, lanceolate streak from the base to one-third of length. 

 Wings not paler. 



Male. Female. 



Length of body ... ... 22-5 mm. 24 mm. 



Length of elytra 30 " 25 " 



Habitat. — St. Domingo, West India; New Hebrides, Poly- 

 nesia." 



Periplaneta curvigera. Walker (ibid, 134). 



" (Section 6. Sides of pronotum and costa of elytra dilated, 

 hyaline; hindmargin straighter than in section 1. Costa of 

 elytra rounded. Two species.) 



Pale-yellow, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head with a black 

 band on the vertex ; antennae piceous, base testaceous, slender. 

 Pronotum much dilated behind, with two black stripes in the 

 disk. Legs short, stout. Wings extending beyond the abdomen ; 

 elytra coriaceous, a broad black stripe along the hindmargin ex- 

 tending nearly to the apex ; hindwings membranous, pellucid, 

 veins pale. 



