84 FAMILY II. BLATTIDJE. THE COCKROACHES. 



larger. Length of body, $, 12.5 16.5, $, 10.8 15.5; of pronotum, $, 

 3.34, $, 3.84.9; of tegmina, $, 1418.2, $, 3.15.6 mm. Width of 

 pronotum, $, 4-3 5.3 $, 4.66.6; of tegmina, $, 4.35.6, 9, 3.34.7 mm. 

 (Fig. 39, C.) 



Crawford Co., Ind., June 3. Ormond, Dunedin, Sarasota, Gulf- 

 port, Ft. Myers and Lake Okeechobee, Fla., Jan. 24 April 1 (W. 

 8. B.). This roach is frequent near Dunedin, Fla., beneath drift, 

 cow-dung, the base of thistle leaves, boards, etc., in dry, sandy 

 localities, a female with ootheca protruding on March 28. Re- 

 corded also by other collectors from 18 additional localities in 

 Florida, and is the only common member of the genus in that 

 State, throughout which it doubtless occurs. Ranges from Long- 

 Island, N. Y v west to southern Indiana., Dallas Co., Iowa, and 

 Arkansas, south and southwest to the southern keys of Florida, 

 and Zavalla Co., Texas. Occurs under debris, bark of logs, etc., 

 usually in open pine woods of sandy regions. Treated by R. & H. 

 (1910, 439) as a southern variety of nhleriana, the males being 

 very similar and distinguished mainly by the pale face, longer 

 pronotum with discal impressions less distinct, and by characters 

 of cerci and insertion of right style as above given. If Hebard 

 has correctly placed the females of uhleriana, that sex is very dif- 

 ferent in the two species and fiilvcscens is a distinct and valid spe- 

 cies mainly austral in its distribution. 



The ootheca of fulvcscens is bean-shaped, very dark brown, 

 about 3.8 X 8.5 mm. in size, the sutural edge being broadly curved 

 and with about 40 minute crimps or folds. 



23. PABCOBLATTA LATA (Brunner), 1865, 135. Broad Wood-Roach. 



Male Size large, form robust. Pale reddish-brown, the head often in 

 part darker; legs and margins of thorax and elytra yellowish translucent; 

 antennae, abdomen above and its sides beneath pale brown; cerci dark 

 brown. Pronotum suborbicular, longer in proportion to its width than in 

 the last three species, widest at middle, its oblique impressions distinct. 

 Tegmina notably wider than pronotum, extending much beyond the abdo- 

 men. Supra-anal plate triangular, its apex broadly rounded. Subgenital 

 plate feebly concave on right side near apex; styles slender, straight, awl- 

 shaped. Female Large, robust. Pronotum much larger than that of male, 

 its front margin rounded, hind one truncate. Tegmina quadrate-ovate, 

 reaching apex of second dorsal segment- Wings small, narrow, their tips 

 acute. Supra-anal plate keeled above, its apex bluntly rounded. Subgeni- 

 tal plate strongly convex. Ootheca 4x9 mm., its suture feebly curved and 

 with a row of about 30 small equidistant 1 " knobs. Length of body, $, 17.- 



''llclard <ioi;a, Hi, MI) ftat<-s that the ootheca of P. n!i!cria"a and P. lata "are 

 carried with the suture laterad." Specimens of both are at hand with the ootheca pro- 

 truding with suture dorsad. 



