288 Mr. W. F. Kirby on a 



Gynopeltis cryptospila. 



Polyphngn crt/ptospila, Walk. Cat. Blatt. p. 15. n. 6 (1868). 

 Gynopeltis jncta ( $ only ?), Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxv. p. 208 (1869) ; 

 Vou der Decken's Reisen, iii. (2) p. 9, pi. i. figs. 1 (?), 2 (1873). 



3, Zomba ; 2, Fort Jolinston, Nyasaland {Rendall) ; En- 

 dara, Mozambique (Oerstaecker) . 



Fwambo (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



This species curiously resembles the female of Polyphaga 

 (vgyptiacaj but is not pubescent and the subgenital plate is 

 not indented. De Saussure doubts if the male associated with 

 it by Gerstaccker really belongs to the same genus. 



EUiptohlatta uniformis, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 18-22 millim. ; lat. pron. 13 millim. 



Female. — Black, smooth, shining, very finely, closely, and 

 uniformly punctured ; eyes separated by a short space, lower 

 mouth-parts testaceous; anteniia3 ferruginous towards the base; 

 legs more or less ferruginous ; terminal plate transverse, 

 rounded ; cerci yellow ; angles of pronotum not produced 

 behind. 



3, Blantyre (Elson). 



The tirst continental representative of this Madagascar 

 genus. 



Pronaonota crihrosa. 



Ih-onaonota a-ibrom, Sauss. Rev. Suisse Zool. iii. p. 21, pi; i. fip-. 1 

 (1895) ; Sauss. & Zehntn. Grandid. Hist. Madag., Orth. i. p. 128, 

 pi. V. fig. 62 (1896). 



Long. Corp. 30 millim., cum tegm. 38 millim. 



Male. — Head black above; labrum red; lower moutli- 

 parts and antennal pits testaceous ; antennaj testaceous at 

 the base and reddish brown beyond. Pronotum less arched 

 than in the female, thickly punctured, yellowish testaceous, 

 inclining to reddish in the middle, and witii some detached 

 black marks on each side of the subcarinated median line, 

 representing the lyrate pattern so common among tiie 

 Blattidffi. Abdomen very long, testaceous; cerci long, thick, 

 slightly incurved. Tegmina longer than the abdomen, testa- 

 ceous, paler along the costa. Wings longer than the tegmina 

 and paler, with brown longitudinal and whitish transverse 

 nervures. 



The female has the base of the abdominal segments reddish 

 above, but otherwise agrees with Saussure's description. 



2, Pretoria {Distant). 



