Mr. W. F. Kirby—WNotes on Blattide. 379 
eye and the mouth-parts tawny. Pronotum with the sides 
rounded, hinder border quite straight, black, with the sides 
bordered with pale yellow. Abdomen above brown, shading 
into black, the sutures and margins pale yellow; cerci black, 
tipped with red. Underside banded with black and tawny ; 
legs ferruginous, coxe and femora pale yellow beneath. 
Tegmina of a shining and slightly reddish brown; a pale 
yellow line on the costal margin, below which the costal cell 
is black ; anal area with a large, oval, pale yellow spot at the 
base. Wings brownish hyaline, with the costal area brown. 
Hab. Matton Mountains, Tonkin, April and May (4. Fruh- 
storfer). 
. This species has a superficial resemblance’ to Hedaia 
olivacea &c., but the unarmed femora, and pronotum truncated 
behind, will at once distinguish it. 
POLYPHAGINZE 
Genus Potypuaaa, Brullé. 
Polyphaga limbata, n. n. 
|| Homeogamia sinensis, Sauss. Mém. Soc. Genéve, xxi. p. 282 (1869) ; 
Rey. Suisse Zool. i. p. 811 (1898). 
This species is quite distinct from P. sinensis, Walker & 
Dohrn, to which the specific name rightly belongs, but which 
Saussure has renamed H. Dohrniana. 
Polyphaga camelorum, Kirb. 
Polyphaga camelorum, Kirb. Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. (7) xi. p. 407 
(1903). 
Jacobsen and Bianchi have described and figured this 
species from ‘Turkestan, but have identified it with the much 
smaller P. egyptiaca, L. (Premokr. i Lozhn. Ross. Imp. 
p- 1383, pl. ii., 1892). 
PLECTOPTERINE. 
Genus PROSOPLECTA, Sauss. 
Prosoplecta rufa, sp. n. 
Long. corp. cum tegm. 9 millim. ; lat. 5 millim. 
Female.—Light red, the tegmina somewhat darker. Pro- 
notum smooth and shining, with the front border narrower 
than the hind border, transversely oval, with broad borders of 
subhyaline yellow covering the rounded off lateral angles, and 
