SUBFAMILY III. EP1LAMPRINJB. iM 



28. LEUKOLESTES PALLIDUS (Brunner), 1865, 286. 



Male Head dark brown, with two or three narrow pale stripes between 

 the eyes; pronotum with disc dark reddish-brown, the sides and apex yel- 

 low, the paler color invading the darker in front and on sides; tegmina 

 pale translucent brown, the marginal field yellowish; abdomen dark 

 brown, its sides paler. Ocelli large, distinct. Pronotum subelliptical 

 feebly convex, its sides strongly declivent, front margin feebly rounded. 

 Tegmina slightly exceeding apex of abdomen. Supra-anal plate trans- 

 verse, delicate, feebly bilobed. Cerci 10-jointed, very short, stout, taper 

 ing, sub-depressed. Subgenital plate asymmetrical, its left margin broadly 

 rounded from base to middle of right margin, the latter concave near base; 

 styles slender, cylindrical, the right one-half as long as the cerci. Female 



Larger, head wider. Tegmina and wings barely reaching apex of abdo- 

 men. Length of body, , 15.217.3, 9, 18.520; of pronotum, $, 3.3 

 3.9, 9, 4.14.3; of tegmina, <$ , 12.413.6, 9, 14.815.2 mm. Width ot 

 pronotum, $, 4.9 3.7, 9, 6.1 0.4; of tegmina, $, 4.2 4.5, 9, 4.7 5 mm. 



(Fig. 45 B.) 



Fig. 45. A, Pycnoscelus sitriiiaiitensis (Linn.) female X i-6. ; B, Leu- 

 rolcstcs paltidits (Brunn.) male X 2 - (After Hebard.) 



Key Largo and Key West, Fla., March, July. At Key West a 

 large number were taken July 3 7, 1912, by Eehn & Hebard from 

 a pile of old burlap bags and in cracks under the stands of a fruit 

 store, where it was in company with four other cosmopolitan 

 roaches. L. pallid us is a house-dwelling species of wide distribu- 

 tion in tropical America and in the past has been much confused 

 with Xijrtoltora hrri(/<it<i (I'.eauv. ), which is a much larger and 

 darker species. In general facies it resembles closely Pycnoscelus 



ititintensis ( L.) . 



Subfamily IV. BLATTINJE. 



Large or medium, mostly cosmopolitan species, having, in ad- 

 dition to the characters mentioned in the key to subfamilies, the 

 head with occiput usually exposed ; ocelli or ocellar spots rarely 



