Hanitsch: Blattidae from the Ruitenzorg Museum. 



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wider at the sides, broadest beliind. Mesonotum witii a large black saddle-shaped 

 blotch, leaving a crescent-shaped transparent light-coloured margin in front, and broad 

 irregular margins at the sides. Metanotum transparent light brown, with a few dark 

 blotches along its posterior border. Abdomen mottled light and dark. Legs light-coloured, 

 transparent, with black blotches at the joints, and small black spots at the bases of the 

 spines. Tegmina and wings not yet developed. 

 Length 10 mm; width 5 mm. 



The O. U. M. contains two exactly similar specimens, also immature, not 

 named, from the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, coUected by Mr. RIDLEY in 1906. 



Ellipsidion terminale, n. sp. 



1 9, Merauke, New Guinea (1904). 



As the specimen in question is slightly damaged, the following des- 

 cription is taken from an exactly similar example, cT, unnamed, in the 

 O. U. M., labelled "Purchased from Mr. EXTON, New Guinea, 1.7.1891" 

 "Presented 1907 by the National Museum, Victoria". 



Vertex of head orange, remainder black. Basal half of the antennae hirsute, black; 

 distal half setaceous, orange. Pronotum orange. Tegmina orange, with the exception of 

 their tips, their inner margins, and the basal portion of the anal area, which are black. 

 Abdominal sterna cream-white at their lateral edges and 

 along the central portion of their posterior margins; 

 otherwise shining black. Coxae black; femora orange, 

 their distal ends black; tibiae orange; tarsi black. 



Total length 14 mm; body 9.5 mm; pronotum 

 3.5 X 5 mm; tegmina 11 mm. 



This species is closely allied to E. aurantinm, 

 Sauss. ') from Australia, which, however, differs 

 from E. terminale by the basal portion and the 

 inner margins of the tegmina being orange, instead 

 of black, and by the lateral white borders of the 

 abdominal sterna being continuous with the 

 white borders of their posterior margins. 



This is apparently only the second species 

 of Ellipsidion so far described from New Guinea 

 the other being E. castaneum, Shelford, A.M.N. H. 



(7), Vol. XIX, p. 28 (1907), the genus being pjg. 4. mipsidion terminale, 

 typically Australian. n. sp. 4X. 



Subfamily EPILAMPRINAE. 



Homalopteryx adusta^ WALKER. 



1 o^, Edam, Bay of Batavia (Dammerman, November 1920). 

 This species, having originally been described from Sarawak (Wal- 

 lace's collection) is now for the first time recorded from Java. Besides 



•) Rev. Zooi. (2), Vol. XVI, p. 312 (1864). 



