2l6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '14 



On the Genus Phoetalia of Authors (Orthoptera, 

 Blattidae, Epilamprinae). 



By JAMES A. G. REHN and MORGAN HEBARD. 



In 1875' Stal erected the genus Phoetalia, giving Nauph. 

 laevigata P. B. as type, which species is now known to be a 

 member of the genus Nyctibora. Thus Phoetalia falls into 

 the synonymy under Nyctibora. The difficulty was caused by 

 Stal really having material belonging to the genus at present 

 under discussion, but confusing the species with the very dif- 

 ferent laevigata of Beauvois as other authors had already 

 done. We here propose the name Wattenwyliella for the genus 

 which has been known as Phoetalia by Kirby, Rehn and 

 Hebard and Caudell and as Phaetalia by Shelford, and we 

 select Nauphoeta pallida of Brunner as the type. The genus 

 includes another species, Nauphoeta circumvagans of Bur- 

 meister. 



Wattenwyliella pallida (Brunner). 



1839. Blatta laevigata Serville (not of Beauvois, 1805), Ins. Orth., 

 p. 98, No. 21. (Cuba^ Martinique.) 



1857. Blatta (Panchlora) laevigata Guerin (not of Beauvois, 1805), 

 Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Ins., p. 344. (Cuba.) 



1864. Blatta laevigata Saussure (not of Beauvois, 1805), Mem. 

 Mex. Blatt, p. 99, pi. I, fig. 16. (Cuba; Martinique; San Domingo.) 



1865. Nauphoeta pallida Brunner, Syst. Blatt, p. 286. (Cuba.) 

 1868. Nauphoeta marginalis Walker, Cat. Blatt. Br. Mus., p. 41, 



no. 14. ( '?) 



1870. Nauphoeta laevigata Saussure (not Blatta laevigata of Beau- 

 vois, 1805), Miss. Sci. Mex., Orth., p. 104. (Antilles; Mexico.) 



1893. Nauphoeta laevigata Saussure and Pictet (not Blatta laevigata 

 of Beauvois, 1805), Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, p. 101. (Mexico; 

 Guatemala; Cuba; San Domingo.) 



1904. Phoetalia pallida Kirby, Synon. Cat. Orth., I, p. 116. (West 

 Indies; Brazil; Teneriffe, Canary Islands.) 



1910. Phoetalia laevigata Rehn and Hebard (not Blatta laevigata of 

 Beauvois, 1805), Ent. News, xxi, p. 103. (Key Largo, Florida.) 



1910. P(haetalia) laevigata Shelford (not Blatta laevigata of Beau- 

 vois, 1805), Gen. Ins., Fasc. 101, Epilamprinae, p. 8. 



1912. Phoetalia laevigata Rehn and Hebard (not Blatta laevigata of 

 Beauvois, 1805), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1912, p. 240. (Key 

 Largo, Florida.) 



