1909.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 415 



BLATTID^J. 

 Ischnoptera consobrina Saussure. 



A single male of this species, collected at Pasadena by Fordyce 

 Grinnell, Jr., has been examined. 



The only previous record of the species from the Pacific States is 

 that of its occurrence at Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, 

 by Baker, 3 the material having been determined by the senior author. 

 Homoeogamia erratica Kehn. 



A single male of this species was taken September 9 at Cottonwood 

 on board a train, to which it had been attracted by the lights. The 

 specimen is paler than a number of Arizona individuals, having 

 practically no markings except an arcuate reddish line meso-caudad 

 on the pronotum. 



This is the first record of the species from California. 



Homoeogamia subdiaphana mohavensis a. subsp. 



Four males of an extremely pale form of H. subdiaphana, Scudder, 

 previously known only from several localities in New Mexico, were 

 taken at Cottonwood, September 9, under similar conditions to the in- 

 dividual of H. erratica recorded above. 



These specimens are very pale cream-buff in base color, the tegminal 

 veins pencilled with burnt umber, those of the anal area, which are 

 strongly lined in the typical form, being hardly more defined than 

 those of the proximal portion of the discoidal area. The pronotum is 

 clouded caudad with ochraceous, particularly on the paired lateral 

 and single caudal areas which are dragon's blood red to bay in the 

 typical form. 



Two forms of pronotum are noticed in the seriesTof H. subdiaphana 

 and H. s. mohavensis, one with the cephalic margin distinctly obtuse 

 angulate, the other with the same portion broadly arcuate. 



Measurements. 



Length of body, 10 . 5 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 3 



Greatest width of pronotum, 4.2 



Length of tegmen, 14 



MANTIDiE. 

 Litaneutria minor (Scudder). 



A single female from Cottonwood, September 9, taken on grease- 

 wood, was actively climbing and jumping? about. In size and pale 



3 Invertebrata Pacifica, I, p. 72. 





