THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[SEVENTH SERIES. ] 
No. 70. OCTOBER 1903. 
XXXVII.—WNotes on Blattidee &e., with Descriptions of new 
Genera and Species in the Collection of the British Museum, 
South Kensington —No. Ill. By W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., 
BLATTIDA. 
BLATTINa. 
Genus MELANOZOSTERIA, Stal. 
Melanozosteria bicolor, sp. n. 
Long. corp. 18-20 millim. . 
Black, sometimes shading into dark reddish chestnut at 
the sides and towards the extremity; antennz, palpi, and a 
large subquadrate spot on each side of the seventh abdominal 
segment above luteous. Tegmina lateral, just passing the 
extremity of the mesonotum, rather longer than broad, with 
the hinder angle rounded off ; strongly punctured. Abdomen 
with the lateral extremities acutely angulated ; the segments 
with numerous short, strongly marked, longitudinal carinze 
at the extremities above. ‘Tarsal joints more or less rufous ; 
coxe lined with pale yellow. 
Hab. Torres Straits and Cornwallis Island. 
Allied to WZ. nitida, Walk., but easily distinguished by its 
colour. 
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