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NOTES ON VICTORIAN AND OTHER BLATTARLZ 
AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 
By J. G..O. Tepprr, F.L.S., &. 
[Read August 6, 1895.] 
Some time ago a collection of Victorian cock-roaches from the 
National Museum, Melbourne, was placed in my hands for deter- 
mination ; it comprised 39 species in 18 genera. Among these 
were a considerable proportion, viz., 13 species, which I was 
unable, to my surprise, to refer to any of those hitherto published, 
and therefore presumably new, while two new genera had to be 
established. Some of these are very rare, as the very able collec- 
tor, Mr. Jas. A. Kershaw, assures me, and have only been found 
in one ora few individuals hitherto. The material being scanty, 
mostly in a form not permitting the study of the wings, and some- 
times defective, the characterization is not quite so definite as 
desirable ; but as the respective species differ very much in other 
details it was considered advisable to attach names—subject, 
however, to possible future corrections. 
Through the study of some of the above new material I have 
also been induced to transfer my genus Zemnelytra from the 
PHYLLODROMID& to the PERIPLANETIDZ on account of the dis- 
tinctly valvular form of the inferior sexual lamina of the female, 
and to place it after the genus (or subgenus) DRYMAPLANETA, mihi, 
from which it differs in the elytra being much more developed 
(although not nearly so much as in the winged forms of Peri- 
planeta) and in other details. 
Besides the Victorian specimens a small number of others had» 
accumulated in the Museum since my last paper, comprising new 
forms, or described ones from new localities, or such of which only 
one sex was known. Several of these, coming from Queensland 
and Western Australia, were kindly contributed by my friend, 
C. French, Esq., F.L.S.; the remainder hail from various parts of 
South Australia. Among these, seven species were recognised as 
new, and an eighth as also represented in the Victorian collec- 
tion. The rare types of the latter are in the National Museum, 
Melbourne, when unique; the remainder also represented in the 
S.A. Museum. 
It may be remarked that, so far as my Australian researches 
hitherto extend, the Blattariz exceed every other orthopterous 
group in number of species and genera. As they are among the 
