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ical Society, there was a single male, easily told by its smaller 

 body and longer cerci. He suggests that as it "is well known that 

 among some of our native roaches the females long outlive the 

 males, it is quite possible that the males of the Surinam roach 

 occur in very early spring in southern Florida." 



/*. obscnnts Scudder (1862, 422), the genotype, was based on a 

 single specimen taken "'in the woods under stones" near Green- 

 field, Mass. He stated that it was a male, and described the styles 

 as "slender, cylindrical, bluntly pointed, of about the length of 

 the cerci and inserted just within them." Hebard (1917a, 193) 

 states that the specimen is a juvenile female of P. siiriiiainensis, 

 and unquestionably adventive. How a female could possess the 

 stj'les described by Scudder passeth understanding. 



II. PAXCHLORA Burmeister, 1S3S, 506. (Or., "all" + "green.") 



Prouotum convex, its sides declivent and hind margin obtuse- 

 angulate ; tegmina and wings extending much beyond apex of ab- 

 domen in both sexes, the ulnar vein of the latter with to 13 

 short, strongly oblique incomplete basal branches; lower front 

 margin of fore femora (in cubeMsis] with a few hairs on basal 

 half, these succeeded toward apex by a more closely set row of 

 shorter hairs ; other femora unarmed or with a single short apical 

 spine; first tarsal joint hairy beneath at base and with a large, 

 rounded pulvillus on apical half ; arolia rather large. 



(- -). PATVCHLORA cuBENis Saussure, 1862a, 230. Green Cuban Roach. 



Male Size medium, rather slender, structure delicate. Uniform pale 

 green above; occiput, pronotum and tegmina with a yellowish-white sub 

 marginal line; legs and under surface greenish-white; tegmina often with 

 a small dark brown dot at apical third. Eyes separated by only one- 

 eighth their greatest diameter. Pronotum widest behind the middle, where 

 its margin is subangulate, disc finely, transversely rugose. Supra-anal 

 plate twice as wide as long, its apical margin broadly concave, feebly 

 notched at middle. Cerci short, broad, their segments indistinct. Sub- 

 genital plate much wider than long, its apex truncate; styles small, cylin- 

 drical, one-third the length of cerci. Female Slightly larger, the eyes 

 more widely separated. Supra-anal plate prolonged, its apex with a deep 

 median notch or cleft. Subgenital plate feebly notched at middle of apex. 

 Length of body, $, 12.2 14, 9, 15.718; of pronotum, $, 3.8 4. 3, $, 

 4,9 5.G; of tegmina, <j , 15.4 1C. $, 18.320 mm. Width of pronotum. 

 $, 55.3, 9, 5.9 6.7; of tegmina, $, 4.85, $, 5.7 G. 2 mm. 



Marion Co., Ind., April 23, Sept. 27; Dunediu, Fla., Feb. 1 

 (W. 8. B.) adventive specimens iiitroduccd wilh bananas. A 



