274 Mr. W. F. Kirby—Wotes on Blattide. 
stripes, connected below into a U shape, and throwing out a 
short branch on each side at the lower extremity. 
Hab. Tejuca, Brazil (Rev. H. Clark). 
Genus DURYODANA, nov. 
Allied to Allacta, Sauss. & Zehntner, but easily distinguished 
by the very large palpi, with the second and third joints 
greatly dilated. . 
Type Blatta palpalis, Walk. (Phyllodromiapalpata, Bruun.), 
from Borneo. 
EPrILAMPRINZ. 
Genus Motyrtrtia, Stal. 
Molytria imperatriz, sp. n. 
Long. corp. 55 millim.; exp. tegm. 118 millim.; lat. 
19 millim. 
Female.—Head yellowish grey, vertex with three parallel 
light brown lines; labrum with a brown band at base, followed 
by two brown dots; pronotum much broader than long, the 
lateral extremities obtusely rounded, and the hinder extremity 
with a slight obtusely rounded projection in the middle ; 
pronotum and tegmina shining yellowish grey, the pronotum 
rather darker and edged by a paler yellow line ; in the middle 
is a large irregularly subquadrate scutcheon, broadest and 
subangulated in front, and throwing out a broad obtusely 
rounded projection in front; the sides slope to the hinder 
extremity, the angles of which are rounded off; the colour is 
black, obsoletely and narrowly edged outside with reddish 
yellow; in the middle is a dull red line, and the centre on 
each side of this is varied with dull red and with black 
markings. Tegmina obsoletely shaded with brownish, and 
with broad yellow nervures, bordered with slender blackish 
lines formed of continuous dots, and with some larger blackish 
or pale brown spots; anal area of the left tegmen thickly 
punctured in rows between the numerous parallel nervures ; 
right tegmen with the covered part brown, varied with irre- 
gular pale markings, and shading outwards into the pale 
ground-colour of the tegmen. Wings smoky subhyaline, 
darkest at the base and along the costa to the apex. Abdo- 
men brown, darkest towards the extremity, and with a few 
short longitudinal carine, the base paler, especially at the 
