BLATTIDS F ROM JAVA AND NORTHERN AUSTRALIE 



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short, black. Styles very small, orange. Legs multi-colorous : 

 coxae black, witb whitish outer border; femora black, with deep 

 orange border; front tibiae almost black; mid and hind tibiae deep 

 orange, tbeir distal ends black; tarsi black. 



(J. Total length 11,5 mm.; pronotnm 3,7 x 7 mm. 



Near Platyzosteria cingulata Shaw, from Queensland (Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, N. S. W., vol. XLVII (1922), p. 226). However, the 

 central portion of pronotnm, mesonotum and metanotum of the 

 latter species is of a nniform black, with no red centre, and the 

 black anterior margins of the abdominal tergites are continued to 

 tbe sides, whilst in alternant they stop at some distance from there. 



For a key of the species of Platyzosteria Brnnner, see Shelforh. 

 Studies of tbe Blattidae, Trans. Ent. Soc, London, 1909, part II, 

 pp. 265-289. 



Cutilia nitida (Brunner.) 



1X65. l'Iah/z.Dslrria nitida Br. — Nouv. Syst. Blatt., p. 214. [Amboina; 

 Ternate." 



5 2 $$, Movehafen, New Britain. H. Heoiger, 1930. 



Common throughout the Malay Archipelago, Formosa and 

 N. S. Wales. 



Cosmozosteria zonata Walker. 



1868. Polyzosteria zonata Wlk. — Cat. Blatt . B. M. p. 159. Port Essing- 

 ton, N. T.] 

 5 <?<J, 4 9$, Kadarri. N. T. April 1931. 

 1 <?, Burnside. N. T. April 1931. 



Shelford, in Gênera Insectorum, Blattinae (1910), p. 9, gives 

 its distribution as " Queensland: South Australia ". 



Stylopyga rhombifolia (Stoll.) 



1813. Blatta rhombifolia Stoll. — Spectres, Blatt., p. 5, pl. 111. 3d, fig. 13. 

 1 £ nymph, Penang (Coll. Mus. Bascl). 



( xosmopolitan. 



Stylopyga fulvo-limbata n. sp. 



2^, Kadarri. N. T., April 1931. — 1 2, Burnside, N. T., April 1931. 



j. Apterous. General colour deep castaneous, bordered ail 

 round with fulvous. - Head freely exposed, yellowish orange; 



