SIT.FAMII.Y I. I'SKUDOMOPIN.K. 69 



This prettily marked species has been taken by R. & H., Davis 

 and others at Pensacola, River Junction, Newberry, Gainesville, 

 Ortega, Miami, Long Key and Key West. Fla., and Nassau, Ba- 

 hama Isles. North of Florida it is known from Georgia to Hous- 

 ton, Texas, in the states along the Gulf Coast, the type being from 

 Mobile, Ala. In Florida it was found in winter and spring be- 

 neath bark, bases of leaves of cocoauut palm, limestone and co- 

 qnina boulders and under signs attached to trees, the latter hiding 

 place being a favorite one throughout its range. 



II. LATIBLATTELLA Hebard, lOlTa, 36. (L., "broad" + "little 



cockroach.") 



Medium sized species of broad form and delicate structure hav- 

 ing the eyes well separated, ocelli distinct; tegmina delicate, often 

 much abbreviated in female, their scapular field broad ; wings 

 hyaline; subgenital plate of male fusing with the styles, of female 

 produced; lower front margin of fore femora armed beneath as 

 described in "" of generic key and with three long, stout spines 

 near apex ; middle and hind femora armed beneath with elongate, 

 moderately stout spines. Two species from the United States 

 are described by Hebard, one of them from our territory. 



14. LATIBLATTELLA EEHNI Hebard, 1917a, 38. Rehn's Cockroach. 



Dull yellow, the tegmina and wings almost transparent; head, face 

 and disc of pronotum usually witn numerous small blackish-brown spots- 

 legs and middle of abdomen above and beneath dull yellow; sides of ab- 

 domen, cerci and extreme bases of tibial spines dark brown. Head with 

 inter-ocular area flattened. Pronotum broadest one-third from base, the 

 sides thence rapidly converging and broadly rounded into apex, hind ang- 

 les broadly rounded, hind margin truncate. Tegmina and wings very del- 

 icate, the former elongate with numerous veins. Sixth dorsal segment 

 of male abdomen with a deep semicircular depression at middle, from 

 which arises a large blunt knob covered with agglutinated hairs. (Fig. 

 34, C.) Subgenital plate of male triangular and upturned between the 

 styles, which are stout and bent inward along its margins. Length of 

 body, $, 10.712.9, $, 10.812.2; of pronotum, $, 2.83.4, 9, 3.13.7, 

 of tegmina, $ , 11.4 13.7, $ , 10.3 11.7 mm. Width of pronotum, $ an-l 

 $, 4.24.7; of tegmina, $ and $, 3.44.4 mm. (Fig. 33, B.) 



Dunedin, Fla., March 18, June 11; on the former date beneath 

 bark of dead pine, on the latter at porch light ; Bassenger, Fla., 

 Feb. 28, by beating Spanish moss, Dendropogon usneoides (L.) 

 (W. X. B.}. Rehn, Hebard, Davis and others have recorded it un- 

 der the names Bhittclla u<lxi><'rxi<-ollis Stal, Xcobltittcllu <nl*i>cr- 



