276 . Mr. W. F. Kirby—WNotes on Blattidee. 
polished, broadly and obtusely rounded at the extremity ; 
nervures of the tegmina well marked, especially in the costal 
cell; anal area reticulated. 
Will include Epilampra nebulosa, Burm., type (=jaspidea, 
Brunn.), sctta, congrua, and deplanata, Walk., and perhaps 
also conformis, Walk., the type of which is missing. 
Genus RHABDOBLATTA, nov. 
Pronotum elliptical, broader than long, nearly concealing 
the head ; tegmina densely reticulated, the costal area with 
numerous slightly oblique transverse nervures, the outer ones 
bifurcated ; costa strongly arched, apex produced into a strong 
but short projecting angle, below which the hind margin 
forms first a shallow concavity, and then a long narrow con- 
vexity, which passes gradually into the inner margin. 
Type Epilampra precipua, Walk., from Ceylon. 
Genus HETEROLAMPRA, nov. 
Pronotum rhomboidal or elliptical, leaving the head more 
or less uncovered and often entirely free; tegmina twice or 
thrice as long as broad, and often more, the costal cell always 
with more or less distinct transverse nervures, at least towards 
the extremity. 
Epilampra dilatata, Brunn. (=laticollis, Walk.), from 
Australia, being an easily recognizable species, may be indi- 
cated as the type. 
This genus will require further subdivision, and has there- 
fore been provisionally characterized in a somewhat elastic 
manner. For the present it is proposed to include in it all the 
Old-World species described under Epilampra, and not yet 
separated under other names. 
Burmeister’s name Epilampra may be retained for the 
American species, with £. brasiliensis, Fabr., as the type. 
They differ from the Old-World species in the usually rather 
small costal cell of the tegmina never containing transverse 
nervures, even towards the extremity, nor are any visible in 
the large species separated by Stal as Pwciloderrhis (type 
verticalis, Burm.). 
Fleterolampra puncticollis, Walk. 
Epilampra puncticollis, Walk. Cat. Blatt. B, M. p. 74. n, 28 (1868). 
Hab. Sarawak. 
