90 FAMILY II. BLATTIDJE. THE COCKROACHES. 



Eanges from Virginia and District of Columbia west and south to 

 southern Indiana, Arkansas and Waco, Texas ; not yet known 

 from Georgia or Florida. Nothing distinctive of its habits is 

 known, except that one specimen was found beneath a sign. It 

 is the smallest of the pale brown species of the genus and the 

 male abdomen is modified like that of the largest, P. lata. The 

 Indiana specimen above mentioned served as the female type of 

 /. insolita R. & H. (1910, 450), a name which has been placed in 

 synonymy by Hebard, as the male type proved to be that sex of a 

 Texan species, P. desertw R. & H. 



VIII. SYMPLOCE Hebard, 1916c, 355. (Gr., "woven together.") 

 Rather small, pale, slender species having the pronotum of 

 male evenly convex without discal impressions, its hind margin 

 feebly prolonged backward at middle into an obtuse angle ; dis- 

 coidal sectors of tegmina longitudinal; discoidal vein of both 

 tegmina and wings forked ; subgenital plate of male asymmetrical ; 

 lower front margin of fore femora armed as described in "00" of 

 generic key, and also with three longer unequal spines at apex 

 (Fig. 32, E). Six species are known, five from the West Indies 

 and the one below. 



27. SYMPLOCE LITA Hebard, 1916c, 357. Unadorned Cockroach. 



Male Pale reddish-yellow, translucent; legs and abdomen pale brown- 

 ish-yellow, the apex of latter and cerci darker. Eyes large, ocelli distinct. 

 Pronotum suborbicular, one-fourth wider than long, its sides declivent, 

 their margins divergent behind and rounding into the hind margin. Teg- 

 mina very delicate, fully developed. Sixth dorsal abdominal segment with 

 two small median basal depressions separated by a triangular ridge which 

 is thickly clothed with hairs. Supra-anal plate much wider than long, its 

 side margins armed with a row of minute spines. Subgenital plate with 

 right margin oblique, prolonged and upturned at apex, the short right 

 style with a spine at base; left margin concave near apex, the left stylfc 

 more slender, curved, twice as long as right one, and armed with two 

 minute spines. (Fig. 34, D.) Female Byes smaller, interocular space 

 much broader; hind margin of pronotum very weakly obtuse-angulate. 

 Tegmina subquadrate, their hind margins subtruncate, with outer apical 

 angles rounded. Wings much shorter than tegmina. Supra-anal plate 

 triangular, its apex bluntly rounded. Length of body, <j , 11.5 14, 9, 

 1112.3; of pronotum, $, 3.23.7, 9, 3.43-7; of tegmina, $, 11.112.8, 

 9, 3.94.8 mm. Width of pronotum, $ and 9, 4.14.6; of tegmina, $ 

 and 9, 3 3.7 mm. 



Known only from Key West, Fla., San Jose del Cabo, Lower 

 California, and Vera Cruz, Mexico. The unique Key West male 

 type was taken July 4, in a cupboard of a hotel in company with 



