On neio Genera and Species of Blattidno. 157 



XXVI. — Some new Genera and Species of Blattidoe, with 

 Notes on the Form of the Pronotum in the Suhfamily 

 rcrisplucriiiiju. By R. Shelfoud, M.A., F.L.S. 



[Rates IX. & X.] 

 Subfam. EcTOBiiNJi:. 



Anajjlecta erythronota, sp. n. (PI. IX. fig. 9.) 



? . Head and disk of pronotum rufous. Lateral margins 

 of pronotum hyaline. Tegmina castaneous, witli the 

 marginal area hyaline ; 10 eostals, 3 longitudinal discoidal 

 sectors. Wings infuscated, marginal area not dilated, radial 

 vein with a humeral and discoidal brancli ; 6 to 7 eostals, 

 median vein obsolete at base; me:lio-discal field twice as 

 broad as medio-ulnar and crossed by 7 transverse venulte; 

 medio-ulnar field distally crossed by 2 to 3 transverse venulae, 

 first axillary triraniose; apical area parabolic, two fifths of 

 total wing-length, base slightly obtusely angled, crossed 

 below the middle by an oblique vein. Abdomen beneath, 

 cerci, and legs testaceous ; abdomen above castaneous, supra- 

 anal lamina transverse, narrow. 



Total length 8 mm.; length of tegmina 5*4 mm. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon {E. E. Green), Type in the British 

 Museum. 



Close to A.maculata, mihi, but differs in the wing- venation 

 as well as in the colour of the pronotum. 



Subfam. PnYLLODROMIINJi. 



Genus Isciinoptera, Burm. 



Ischnoplera loiigstaffi^ sp. n. (PI. IX. fig. S.) 



(^ . Testaceous. Head with a castaneous macula on the 

 frons, Pronotum with two castaneous sjiots on the disk. 

 Tegmina with radial vein bifurcated ; 14 to 15 eostals, 9 longi- 

 tudinal discoidal sectors, the anterior ulnar vein being tri- 

 ramose. Wings hyaline, mediastinal vein tri ramose, radial 

 vein bifurcated ; 7 eostals, the last two niultiramose ; ulnar 

 vein with 3 complete branches and 3 or 4 incomplete brandies 

 going to the dividing vein, the more proximal minute. Sixth 

 abdominal tergitc with jiosterior border notched, a circular 

 depression at base of seventh tergitc marking the opening of 



