Collection of African Blattidse. 281 



Epilampridae. 



Epilampra pardalma. 

 Epilamjira pardalina, Walk, Cat. Blatt. p. 68, u. (18(38). 



2, Barbeilon {Bendnll) ; Lake N 'Garni (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



A rather small but very conspicuous aiul easily recognizable 

 species, which does not seem to have been described by any 

 author but Walker. 



BlattidaB. 

 Genus Apotrogia, nov. 



Very broadly oval; smooth and polished. Head com- 

 pletely concealed under the pronotum ; eyes placed widely 

 apart; pronotum depressed at the sides and in front; meso- 

 notum and metanotum with the sides broadly deflexed back- 

 wards ; abdomen depressed, acutely angled on the lateral 

 extremities, and forming a projecting tooth on the last, and 

 one less prominent on the penultimate segment ; cerci broad, 

 not longer than the subgenital plate, which is nearly twice as 

 broad as long, slightly rounded off at the lateral angles, and 

 curved inwards in the middle. Front femora with several 

 short spines on the outer carina, but only the terminal spine 

 on the inner carina, the rest unarmed. Tibiai broad, witli 

 a single row of spines on the inner edge above, and a 

 double row on the outer edge above ; tarsi moderately stout, 

 metatarsus rather longer than the three middle joints together, 

 which collectively are slightly longer than the terminal joint. 

 Embolium well marked. 



This genus is based on six specimens (including both 

 sexes), which may be immature ; but I have no winged 

 specimens which can be referred to them. They are not 

 unlike immature specimens of the American genus Blaherus, 

 Serv., which belongs to another family. But if winged 

 specimens of the present genus are met with, they can easily 

 be identified as belonging to it. At present I am inclined to 

 place Apotrogia near the Australian genus Poly zoster ia^ 

 Burm. 



Apotrogia angolensis^ sp. n. 



Long. corp. 24-28 millim. ; lat. corp. 17-21 millim. 



Head testaceous, face ferruginous or blackish below the 

 vertex, except a narrow testaceous border within the antennaj ; 

 antennee ferruginous, more or less blackish above scape, paler 



