R. HAMTSCM 



ceous. Subgenital lamina deeply divided. Styles very short. 

 Legs testaceous; front femora armed with piliform spines only. 



Total length 14 mm. 

 A 1 lied to Mareta (Blatta) contigua Walker, with which it agrées 

 hy it s size, pale straw-colour, hroad hyaline margin of pronotnm, 

 and large nnmber of branches of nlnar vein of the wings, but 

 difîers froin it by the markings of the head which in contigua is 

 testaceous, with a white cross-bar between the eyes. 



Graptoblatta notalata (Stâl.) 



1858, lilalta notalata Stâl. Eugénie 1 » Resa. Orthoptera, p. 308. 

 [<?, Tahiti.] 



1 çj, Indragiri, Sumatra. A. v. Méchel, 1899. 



I hâve recorded this widely distributed species from the Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Bornéo, Cocos Keeling Is., Rei Is., and 

 Hawaii (Tijdschr. Entom., vol. LXXII (1929), p. 279). 



Plumiger histrio (Burmeister.) 



1838. Thyrsocera histrio Burm. — Handb. Entom., vol. II. p. 499 [Jaya . 

 3 $$. Buitenzorg, Java. Feb. and Nov. 1931. 



Known from ail parts of Malaysia and Celebes. 



Ellipsidion aurantium Saussure. 



1864. Rev. Zool. (2). vol. XVI, p. 312 [Australia]. 

 2<J<J, 1$, Burnside, N. T. April 1931. 



Z-Lagoon, N. T. April 1931. 

 1$, Marrakai, N.T. and 1 Ç, Katherine. N.T. May 1931. 



On account of its divided sub-genital lamina, the armature of 

 the front femora with piliform spines only, and its plumose antennae 

 I bave removed the genus Ellipsidion Saussure, from the Pseudo- 

 mopinae to the Ectobiinae and bave placed it next to Plumiger 

 Hebard. 



One of the $ spécimens, from Katherine, N. T., has the ootheca 

 far projecting from the body, the distal end of which, together with 

 the tips of the tegmina, are covered with apparently recently 

 hatched young ones. Shelford, in his « A Naturalist in Bornéo », 

 1916, p. 117, reports two species of viviparous Cockroaches, which 

 carry their young, viz. Phlebonotus pallens Serville, from India, 



