4;S Mr. R. SliclfDiil on some new Species o/'Blattitlce. 



and all the tibiic ilavo-testaccous; tibial spines rufo-castaucous, 

 ai'ical joints of tarsi fuscous; femoral spines as in preceding 

 species, except that the mid femora have no spines beneath. 



Total length 138 mm. ; length of body 10 ram. ; length 

 of tegmina 10'8 mm. 



Congo {Dybowski, 189G) ; two examples (Paris Museum). 



Nearest to E. Lucci, Dom. 



Genus Ellipsica, Sauss. & Zehnt. 

 EU'ipsica rugosa, sp. n. 



$ . Black, narrowly elliptical, convex. Head punctate; 

 clypeus, mouth-parts, and antennae flavo-testaceous. Sides 

 of the thoracic tergites strongly deHexed, their posterior 

 angles acute and produced backwards, their surface beset 

 ■with tubercles, between ^vhich arc numerous punctures ; on 

 the meso- and metanotum the tubercles are in a double row, 

 on the prouotura they are less regularly placed. Abdominal 

 tergites transversely divided by a sulcus into two unequal 

 portions ; the anterior narrow portion is im punctate and 

 smooth, the posterior portion is marked by a double row of 

 punctures followed by a double row of tubercles ; the 

 transverse sulci are laterally very deep, especially in the 

 posterior segments, and one row of punctures lies in these 

 sulci ; on the seventh tergite the tubercles are larger and 

 less regularly arranged than in the preceding segments. 

 Supra-anal lamina quadrate, margined, tuberculate. Abdo- 

 minal sternites transversely divided by sulci like the tergites, 

 punctate but not tuberculate; subgenital lamina ample, 

 punctate. Legs black, tar.-i flavo-testaceous, arolia large. 



Total length 15 mm. : pronotum 5 mm. x 7 mm. 



West coast of Madagascar {Lantz, 1882) ; two examples 

 (Paris Museum). 



The species is quite unlike any other of the genus in its 

 tuberculate characters. 



Genus Pseudoglomeris, Br. 



Pseudoglomeris magnifica, sp. n. 



? . Brilliant metallic green or blue-green. Head punc- 

 tate ; eyes 1 mm. apart ; base of antennae and palpi 

 flavid, apical half of antennae fuscous, middle section 

 castaneous. Pronotum semiorbicular, posterior angles back- 

 wardly produced ; anterior border margined and slightly 



