PERIPLANETA AUSTRALASIA. Ill 



shire : One, alive, out of a cluster of bananas from the Canary 

 Islands, in a fruiterer's shop at Paisley, about the end of 1900 

 (Stewart}. 



IRELAND. Armagh: Belfast (McLachlan). Dublin: Dublin, 

 greenhouses in the Botanic G-ardens (Halbert). 



Genus 5. LEUCOPHJEA Brunner. 



Leucophsea BRUNNER Nouv. Syst. Blatt, p. 278 .... 1865. 

 Pycnoscelus SCUDDER Boston Journ. Nat. Hist, vii, p. 424, nymph 1862. 



(\tvKo<j)aio = fuscus.) 



This name was introduced by Brunner in his 

 'Nouveau Systeme des Blattaires ' in 1865, as a sub- 

 genus of Panchlora Burm., to contain those insects 

 with " Color fuscus vel testaceus," p. 272. He placed 

 in the sub-genus P. surinamensis Linn., P. nicjra 

 Brunn., P. pcecila Schaum., and P. maderde Fabr. 

 Later he restricted the sub-genus to L. surinamensis 

 and L. niger. The name Pycnoscelus was created for 

 a genus in which to place P. obscurus, which Scudder 

 thought new, but which was really the nymph of 

 L. surinamensis. Type of the genus, Leucophaea 

 surinamensis Linn. 



1. Leucophaea surinamensis Linn. 

 (Plate VII, fig. 8 ; PL X, figs. 1 and 2 ; PL XI, fig. 3.) 



surinamensis LINN. Syst. Nat. (ed. x) i, p. 424, 



n. 3 l75SBlatta. 



BRUNNER Nouv. Syst. Blatt. p. 278, 



n. 12, pi. 7, f. 32 A-E . . 1865 Panchlora. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 28, pi. 2 a, f. 2 . 1897 Leucophaea. 



KIRBY, Syn. Cat. Orth. i, p. 151 . 1904 Leucophsea. 



LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Eiit. Soc. 



p. 38, figs. 8. 8 a, 8b . . . 1915 Leucopluvu. 



[Other synonyms are : Blatta melanocephala Stoll ; B. indict i 

 Fabricins ; B. punctata Esch. ; B. corticum Serv. ; Panchlora 

 submarginata Walker ; P. occipitalis Walk. ; P. celebesa Walk. ; 

 Pycnoscelus obscurus Scudder (iiymph).J 



(B. inclica of Fal^ricius is a small form (which some still consider 

 distinct) with abbreviated elytra). 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



surinamensis. 3. B. livida, thoracis margine antico albo. 



Habitat Surinam!. 



(C. Linnaeus, ' Syst. Nat,' ed. x, torn, i, p. 424, 1758.) 



