..Dec. , '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 325 



Notes and Remarks on North American Blattidae, 

 Mantidae and Phasmidae, 



"With a Catalogue of the Forficulidae, Blattidae, Mantidae and Phasmidae 



Recorded from Texas. 



BY JAMES A. G. REHN. 



The following records, unless otherwise stated, are based on 

 material in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. 



BLATTIM. 



Ischnoptera bolliana Saussure and Zehntner. 



Shovel Mount, Burnet Co., Texas; June 21 and July 25, 

 1901 (Schaupp). Two males. 



Round Mountain, Blanco Co., Texas (Schaupp). Two 

 males. 



The specimens from Round Mountain belong to the form 

 with the median streak of dull yellowish on the pronotum. 



Ischnoptera hyalina Scudder. 



This species was based on one male specimen in the collec- 

 tion of the American Entomological Society, which is still 

 extant, though minus the abdomen. As the original descrip- 

 tion is rather poor, the following remarks may prove of some 

 service. 



Size large (for the genus) ; form slender, elongate. Head with the 

 interspace between the eyes greater than that between the ocelli ; eyes 

 very elongate pyriform, the apex posteriorly ; ocelli large, touching the 

 eyes ; antenna.- filiform, equal to the apex of the tegmina in length, very 

 closely and finely hirsute, third joint not half the length of the first. Pro- 

 notum slightly transverse ; anterior margin truncate ; the posterior sub- 

 truncate, a very slight and very obtuse median angle ; lateral margins 

 and angles rounded ; lateral portions considerably depressed, disk slightly 

 impressed. Tegmina elongate ; sutural and apical and median thirds of 

 the costal margin subparallel, apex evenly rounded ; basal field equal to 

 about one fourth the length of the tegmina ; anal field elongate ovoid in 

 shape. Anterior femora with three large apical, five median, and an 

 intervening series of very fine spines present on the anterior margin, 

 posterior margin with five spines, no genicular spine present ; tibia- about 

 three-fourths the length of the femora ; tarsi equal to the femora in length, 

 the m-tatarsi slightly exceeding the apical joint in leogtli. Median femora 



