408 Mr. W. r. Kirby— .AVes on Blattidse. 



" These were seen usually on sandy soil, where camels 

 had been resting for the night, moving about amongst the 

 dung."— Z»r. J. E. T. Aitchison. 



A very large and remarkable species, most nearly allied to 

 P. mdica, Walk. ; but P. indica is a smaller and darker 

 insect, less shining, and with the last abdominal ])late more 

 rounded. A fourth specimen of PoJyphaga, obtained by 

 Dr. Aitchison at Badghis, agrees with a series from Kashgar, 

 Avhich should probably be referred to P. indica, the type 

 of which is somewhat damaged. 



Panestsiinm. 



Genus Salganea, Stal. 



Salganea dux. 



Long. Corp. 43 millim. ; lat. pron. 17 millim. ; lat. abd. 

 22 millim. ; exp. al. 117 millim. 



Female. — Dark reddish chestnut above, shading into 

 blackish at the extremities and on the. lower part of the 

 clypeus ; under surface and legs of a lighter red ; head dark 

 reddish brown, shining; ocelli, labrum, and base of labium 

 testaceous; labium otherwise light red ; terminal plate of 

 abdomen black above and below ; pronotnm with a broad 

 upcurved ridge, from whence rises a semidetached frontal 

 hood, deeply indented in the middle ; pronotum thickly 

 punctured, the central tubercles of the raised portion quite 

 small, the outer ones rising into very large pyramidal but 

 somewhat obtuse teeth ; meso- and metanotum with deep 

 carina, enclosing a triangle very broad at the base and 

 obtusely pointed behind ; the metanotum, and to a less 

 extent the mesonotum, is obtusely and broadly angulated 

 behind ; the meso- and metanotum and the basal segments 

 of the abdomen smooth and very sparingly punctured, the 

 last three abdominal segments and the terminal plate in- 

 creasingly thickly punctured both above and below ; terminal 

 plate, hinder half of the last segment of the abdomen, the 

 extremity of the one preceding, and the cerci clothed with 

 short testaceous hair ; seventh segment with the sides dis- 

 tinctly dentated, and with a large terminal tooth ; terminal 

 plate rounded and entire, with only a strong tooth on each 

 side just beyond the cerci. Front femora with only a ter- 

 minal spine on the outer carina beneath. Tegmina and 

 wings smoky brown, the extremities and the anal half of the 

 wings smoky hyaline. 



Ilah. Obi {Van Duivenhorg). 



