230 NEW AUSTRALASIAN" BLATTIDAB, 



Leg's with the coxae testaceous, a large castaneous macula occupying the basal 

 portion of the eoxal groove, and the whole of the coxal ridge and coxal process; 

 the remainder of the legs castaneous, spines paler. Posterior metatarsus about 

 the length of the remaining tarsal segments combined, somewhat dilated distally, 

 biseriately spined beneath, pulvillus apical; remaining segments with large pul- 

 villi; middle metatarsus biseriately spined beneath towards the base. Length, 

 17.5 mm. 



Type, specimen No. 110 (c?), Coll. Shaw. 



Hab. — ? New Zealand: Invercargill. 



Notes. — This unique specimen was sent to me in 1918 by Mr. A. Philpott, 

 now of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, N.Z., taken at Invercargill in the shop of 

 a fruiterer who dealt largely in Australian fruits; and I have kept it hoping 

 that other specimens would be forthcoming. As such has not been the case, I 

 now propose that it should be named after its discoverer, as an acknowledgment 

 of the keen interest he takes in New Zealand Blattidae. Until further material is 

 discovered there must be a doubt as to whether this species is a native of Aus- 

 •tralia, or of New Zealand, or occurs in both; but, with the exception of C. nitida 

 Brunner v. W., the whole genus Cutilia is confined to these countries. 



CUTILIA PEEIARUM, n.Sp. 



Small, nigro-castaneous, nitid, apterous. Head with the vertex rufous, frons 

 black; margins of the clypeus and labrum fuscous; ocelliform spots large, tri- 

 angular, pale yellow; antennae fuscous, densely ciliated, shorter than the body. 

 Thoracic tergites dark castaneous, with the lateral portions ruf o-castaneous ; 

 pronotum somewhat truncate anteriorly, exposing the vertex; lateral margins of 

 the meso- and metanotum slightly thickened; the lateral and posterior margins 

 of all the thoracic tergites ciliate. Abdominal tergites with the lateral margins 

 slightly thickened and ciliate, posterior margins tuberculate and eiliate. In the 

 Paratype the posterior portions of tergites 8 and 9 are visible; these are not 

 ciliate, and are of a pale cream colour, except the postero-lateral angles of the 

 9th which are black, ciliate and produced into a spine. The surface of all the 

 tergites with a few scattered erect cilia. Supra-anal lamina triangular, apex 

 truncate, lateral margins everted, as is also the posterior margin in the d, emar- 

 ginate, not reaching to half the length of the cerei in the S, but considerably 

 longer in the 2; cerci black, tips rufous. Subgenital lamina of the c? short, 

 posterior margin nearly straight, lateral margins convex. Abdominal sternites 

 black. Legs with the coxae black, coxal borders cream-white, distal portion of 

 the coxal ridges and coxal processes, and the rest of the leg's ruf o-castaneous ; 

 posterior metatarsi longer than the remaining tarsal segments combined, biseriately 

 spined beneath, pulvillus apical; remaining tarsal segments unspined, pulvilli 

 large, arolia largte. Length, 3 12 mm., 9 13 mm. 



Type, specimen No. 252 (c?) ; allotype, specimen No. 254 (?), Coll. 

 Sha.w. Paratype, No. 253 (?). 



Hah. — Qmeensland: Stanthorpe; N.S. Wales: Wilson's Downfall (Jan., 

 1921). 



Notes.- — Three specimens were collected during holidays in Jan., 1921, by my 

 daughter Brigit, one at Stanthorpe, the others just over the border in N.S.W. The 

 species is distinguished by its small size, almost black colour, very pale coxal 

 borders, and absence of tegminal vestiges. As previously pointed out (Sliaw, 

 Mem. Qland Mus., vi., 1918, p. 151), species having long, biseriately spined pos- 

 terior metatarsi, with apical pulvilli should be included in Cutilia Stal, even 



