208 NORTH AMERICAN BLATTIDAE 



tegmina clear hyaline, scarcely clouded. Wings hyaline, except 

 black stigmata; margin of posterior field clouded. 



9 . Pronotum mars yellow to orange rufous, often weakly 

 suffused with dark brown at caudal margin. Head usually slightly 

 darker; antennae similar, suffused with dark brown proximo- 

 mesad ; underparts slightly paler than pronotum. Proximal opaque 

 portions of tegmina black, with a mctallicgreen-blue sheen, stronger 

 than in male; distal portions hyaline, with a faintly yellowish 

 tinge and weakly clouded proximad and distad. Wings hyaline, 

 except black stigmae; margins of anterior and posterior fields 

 clouded, this not as wide as on the posterior field in the male. 



The above series of twenty-six specimens, in the Philadelphia 

 collections, represents all the material which has as yet been found 

 established in the United States. At Key West, Florida, the 

 species was found with Supella supellectilium, Blattella germmiica, 

 Leurolestes pallidiis and Peri plan eta americana in folds of burlap 

 bags under the counter in a fruit store, and with Blaberus craniijer 

 between old boards in a wood shed. The species is apparently 

 domiciliary and widely distributed through the American tropics. 



COMPSODES333 new genus 

 Related to Latindia Stal, differing, in the male sex, in the fol- 

 lowing features. ^^^ Head with eyes not very widely separated, 

 the interocular width not decidedly greater than that between the 

 antennal sockets; disk of male pronotum almost perfectly ellip- 

 tical, not decidedly truncate caudad, with a medio-longitudinal, 

 linear sulcus and broad, but not deep, oblique sulci latero-caudad, 

 lacking a transverse, obtuse-angulate, linear sulcus cephalad ; 

 cephalic and caudal femora of male not strikingly enlarged, the 

 caudal femora supplied with a genicular spine as well as the median 



333 Prom Koiuipr) and -coStjs, neat looking. 



'^^* These comparisons are made with the original description of Latindia, the genotype 

 of which is matirella Stal, and specimens of both sexes of the genus before us, representing 

 two species, of which one is North American. 



Latindia dohrniana Saussure and Zehntncr 



1894. Latindia dohrniana Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., i, p. iii, 

 pi. V, fig 7. [ 9 ; Guatemala.] (Tegmina fully developed.) 

 Motzorongo, Vera Cruz, Mexico, II, 1892, (L. Bruner), 2c^, i 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



