MORGAN HEBARD 
151 
In addition to the described pair, a female of this species from 
Porto Bello, Panama, taken February 24, 1911, by A. Busck is 
before us,^^ property of the United States National Museum. 
PERISPHAERIIXAE 
This subfamily, as far as the assigned American forms are con- 
cerned, is at present decidedly unsatisfactory. The first group 
including Dasyposoma and its allies, as recently assigned by us^^ 
is, from the material here studied, found to represent, at least 
in part, merely the juvenile condition of species belonging to the 
group containing Hormetica and its allies. As to that group, it 
appears very possible that it should be considered an aberrant 
complex, referable to the Blaberinae and not to the Perisphaer- 
iinae. 
The characters used to separate the Blal)erinae and Panchlor- 
inae are, however, also unsatisfactory, and general revisionary 
treatment is much needed. At present we are able to state 
definitely that Hormetica and Parahormetica are very closely 
allied genera, as indicated by Kirby, certainly not referable to 
different subfamilies, as assigned by Brunner. 
Hormetica subcincta ( Walker I 
1868. Brachycola subcincta Walker, Cat. Blatt. Br. Mus., p. 188. [cf, 
Colombia.] 
Susumuco, Cundinaniarca, X, 1918, (from A. IMaria), 1 cT. 
\’illavicencio, Intendencia del Meta, XII, 1918 and 1919, 
(from A. Maria), 2 cf, 1 9 . 
The previously unknown female agrees in all respects with the 
males, except in contour and coloration of the pronotum. In 
this sex the pronotum is convex, showing no decided meso-lateral 
projections of the disk, with lateral margins very heavily cingu- 
late as in the male, but not at all reflexed above the head. In 
coloration the pronotum is ochraceous-buff, with two very large 
meso-lateral patches of blackish brown, these each containing a 
moderately large, irregularly rounded area of ochraceous-tawny 
in the position of the striking pale spots of the male, and caudad 
of these a small patch of ochraceous-tawny on each side. The 
Recorded by Hebard as H . fieberi (Brunner), Mem. Am. Ent. Soc., no. 
4, p. 119, (1920). 
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xlv, p. 119, (1919). 
TR.\NS. AM. ENT. SOC., XLVII. 
