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length, and are unusually free from each other, the two sclorites together 
forming a very broad and thick portion for the attachment of the legs. 
Metaplewnm. (Fig. 6.) Much as in the mesopleurum, with the coxa 
pointed at the lower and posterior end; both the meso- and metapleurites 
are more oblique than the propleurites, while the meta- are fully as large 
as the mesopleurites. 
Sternum. 
Tennopsis. (Fig. 7.) The prosternum is triangular, about as long as 
broad. 
The mesosternum is about three times as large as the prosternum, and 
also equilaterally triangular, with the posterior apex acute. Metaster- 
num? 
Termes flavipes. (Figs. 7-9.) The prosternum is rudimentary, consist- 
ing of four sclerites; two large ones next to the episternum in front, and 
two minute triangular ones behind. The meso- and metasterna are 
entire, broadly triangular, and rather large, with a pair of accessory 
sclerites in front of the coxae. The cox® seen from beneath are divided 
by a deeply-impressed longitudinal line. 
TIIE ABDOMEN. 
The abdomen of Tennopsis is much as in Blatta; it is very flat, broad, 
oval-oblong; ten uromeres, the first tergite broad and long; the tenth 
Fig. 12. — Abdomen of Termopsis angnsticollis. I), dorsal ; V, ventral ; L, lateral view. Enlarged. 
Gisalor, del. 
short, triangular, small, only extending between the short five-jointed 
cercopoda. There are nine urosternites. The pleurites of the abdomen 
