REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST IQoS 



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December 26, 1878, and is given on the authority of the late 

 Dr Samuel Kneeland. Again in 1879 ^ female was found alive 

 with numerous young in a house at Salem, Mass. In both of the 

 above mentioned cases the insect was identified as P a n c h 1 o r a 

 n i V e a Linn. A specimen was also 

 taken by Dr Carl F. Gissler of 

 Brooklyn, X. Y., September 21, 1890. 

 It has also been recorded from 

 Porto Rico. 



Description. This slender species 

 is a rather fragile, light green, yellow 

 margined form with the thinner por- 

 tions of the wings transparent. It 

 is nearly an inch long and has the 

 long, slender, pale yellowish antennae 

 characteristic of this group, the ter- 

 minal segments of which are in- fig 

 teresting, since they are strongly 

 constricted at the base and thus subsessile. The legs and under- 

 surface are pale yellowish green. 



The young, as noted by Dr Howard, are light brown and are 

 remarkable in that the body becomes broader posteriorly. 



Life history and habits. This species, aside from being a 

 tropical form, is particularly interesting because of its viviparous 

 habits, most cockroaches producing large, characteristic ootheca. It 

 is a tropical form and the abundance of constantly warm houses, 

 not to mention greenhouses, should render it comparatively 

 easy for this species to maintain itself in our climate, particularly 

 when reinforced by frequent importations as appears to be the 

 case at the present time. This or an allied form, according to 

 Malcomb Burr, is occasionally found in Europe, being brought 

 from South America. 



Green cockroach, enlarged. 

 (Original) 



Bibliography 



1890 Smith, J. B. I'sychc, 5:405. tRecorded from Boston and Salem, 

 Mass., as i' a n c h 1 o r a n i v e a ) 



1891 Riley, C. V. Insect Life, ^.^s^. (Recorded from Brooklyn. Ob- 

 servations on life liistorj', as Panchlora viridis); 3:443-44, 

 (Brief general illustrated account) 



1903 Rehn, J. A. G. .\m. luit. Soc. Trans. 19:285. (Distribution) 



