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the elytra and the presence of wings at least in the male. From 
Blatta and Periplaneta, although very similar in form, they are 
separated by the entire subgenital lamina of the female, and from 
the genus Phyllodromia by the abbreviated elytra, &c. 
*PARATEMNOPTERYX AUSTRALIS, Sauss.,; id., Tepper, Trans. Roy. 
Soc., 8S. Aust., 1894, p. 170. 
A female captured by me in my house at Norwood is assigned 
to this species, and agrees in all respects with the original descrip- 
tion. A male (found in the Public Library, Adelaide) with 
perfect wings appears to belong also here. They are easily dis- 
tinguished from the common “ black beetles” (Peripl. orientalis ), 
which they resemble in color, by the subgenital lamina of the 
female not being valvular as in the latter, &c. The male being 
still undescribed, the following description is appended. 
Male. Elytra and wings perfect—(Female. Elytra very much 
abbreviated, wings rudimentary or none)—exceeding the body, 
dull brown. Head shining, vertex dark red, face black; areoles 
of antenne and the labrum yellowish, antenne brown and white 
annulated. Pronotum shining, disk dark reddish, surrounded by 
a zone of dark piceous, which is widest behind ; lateral margin 
deflexed, narrowly bordered with red, rotundate ; hindmargin 
nearly straight, angles rounded. LElytra exceeding abdomen by 
about one-fifth, margins subparallel, apex rounded ; veins much 
raised, branches of ulnary veins parallel, emitted towards apical 
border ; anal vein distinctly recurved ; mediastinal area red near 
base, remainder to first branch blackish; remainder of elytra dull 
dark brown. Wings as long as elytra, smoky to blackish. Pectus 
and legs tawny. ‘Tarsi pale, Supra-anal lamina depressed, 
rather broadly trigonal, apex truncate, slightly concave, apical 
margin narrowly white. Cerci long, lanceolate, flat, densely 
ciliate, black above, beneath brown, concave ; apex acute. Sub- 
genital lamina short, broad; hindmargin rotundate, entire, black; 
disk red. 
Male. Female. 
Length of body a 2. LOFOy ome 16 mm. 
Length of elytra... oe hd s Orr 
Length of pronotum Seno ‘ Te 
Width of pronotum ee: 7 “ (ee: 
Hab.—Adelaide. (S.A. Museum.) 
The following species differs from the above in its elytra being 
much longer with the female, the supra-anal lamina being much 
narrower and ovate instead of trigonal, besides being much 
smaller. With the male the pronotum is flatter and less rounded, 
the supra-anal lamina narrower and distinctly emarginate. 
Neither of the two species exhibits a trace of plantula or arolia. / 
