288 Mr. W. F. Kirby on a 



G>i n npeJt in cn/j >toiip ila . 



Pobfphnga cn/ptospil<i, \\'alk. Cat. Blatt. p. lo. n. 6 (1868). 

 Oi/nope/fis ptcta ( 2 only ?), (^erst. Ardi. f. Nat. xxxv. p. 208 (1869) ; 

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



3, Zoniba ; 2, Fort Jolinston, Nyasaland [Rendall] ; En- 

 dava, .Mozambique (Gerstaecker). 



Fwambo (Nat. Hist. Mus.). 



This species curiously resembles the female of Pohjphaga 

 (pgi/ptiaca, but is not pubescent and the subgeiiital 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. lS-22 millim. ; lat. pron. 13 millim. 



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

 uniformly punctured ; eyes sejjarated by a short space, lower 

 nioiith-parts testaceous; antennae 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 first continental representative of this Madagascar 

 genus. 



Pronaonota cribrosa. 



rronaonnta cribrosa, Saiiss. Rev. Suisse Zool. iii. p. 21, pi i. fip-. 1 

 (1895); Saiis9. & Zuhntn. Grandid. Hist. Madag., Ortli. i. p. 128, 

 pi. V. fig. 62 (1896). 



Long, corp, 30 millim., cum tegm. 33 millim. 



Hale. — Head black above; labrum red; lower mouth- 

 parts and antennal pits testaceous ; antennje 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 with some detached 

 black marks on each side of the subcarinated median line, 

 representing the lyrate pattern so common among the 

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

 slightly incurved, 'i'egmina longer than the abdomen, testa- 

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

 and paler, with brown longitudinal and whitisii transverse 

 nervures. 



The female has the base of the abdominal segments reddish 

 above, but otherwise agrees witii Hau-ssure's description. 



2, Pretoria {Distant). 



