On a Collection vj African Blattidaj. 



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XXXVMI. — Notes on a Collection of A tricau Bl;iltid;e, c/iie/l// 

 from the Traiisvdul, formed by Mr. ]V. L. Ifistant. Wy 



W. F. KiKiJV, F.L.S., F.E.S., &c. 



DuKlNCJ liis residence in the Tninsviial Mr. Distant paid 

 partifular attention to the Bhittidie, and obtained a series of 

 very interestini^ species. There are a considerable number 

 ot" remarkable t'orms in Southern and Eastern Africa, ami an 

 examination of this collection has enabled me to record 

 several geiu'ra previously known only from Madagascar as 

 occurring also on the African continent, to clear up several 

 doubtful points of synonymy, and to place together the 

 sexes of various species. A large proportion of African 

 sj)ccies belong to genera in which the females are very 

 different from the niales, and mostly apterous ; and we require 

 a much larger series of specimens of both sexes thari have 

 yet been brought together to enable them to be worked out 

 in iinything like a satisfactory manner. 



The species of liiattidie enumerated below, and mostly 

 represented in Mr. Distant's collection, are as follows: — 



OR rilOPTERA-BLATTJD/E. 



Ectobiidae. 



Eclubut, Westw. 



criciionan, Wesni. 

 Ap/iltbia, Brunn. 



transvaaliensts, sp. ii. 



bicolor, sp. u. 



Phyllodromiidae. 



Vhyllodroinia, Serv. 



bicitiata, Serv. 



delta, sp. n. 



ni/keps, sp. n. 

 Ibchno/itera, Burm. 



striyosa, .Schaiim. 



Epilampridae. 



Hpilampru, Buvni. 

 pcu'dalina, AValk. 



Blattidae. 



Apotrof/i(i, tr«'ii. iiov. 



an;/<>lvfisis, sp. n. 

 DoryUca, Stal. 



rhmnbifolui, Stoll. 



Periplaneta, Burm. 



(imericana^ Linn. 

 Eurycotin, 8t;11. 



cethiopica, Sauss. 

 Deropelti's, l^iirni. 



eri/throcrphala, Fabr. 



atrd, Jirunii. 



inelimophild, Walk. 



brevicoUis., 8erv. 



similu, Sauss. 



capensis, Sauss. 



Dtstaiiii, sp. n. 



Panchloridae. 



li/iyporohia, Krauss. 



maderce, Fabr. 

 Gynct, I^runn. 



caffrorum, Stil. 

 Nauphtntn, Burm. 



aspersato, sp. u. 



Perisphaeriidae. 



Enster/asta, (ierst. 

 pocciln, Schauiu. 

 obsoletn, sp. n. 



