198 NORTH AMERICAN BLATTIDAE 



numerous (usually 9 to 13) short, strongly oblique, proximal in- 

 complete rami and few (usually 3 to 4) short, distal complete 

 rami; intercalated area very narrow and feebly indicated. Supra- 

 anal plate of female delicate in structure, sub-bilobate. Femora 

 with ventral margins unarmed, except frequently with a much 

 reduced, single, distal spine on all, or some, of these margins, ex- 

 cepting the ventro-caudal margin of the caudal femora; ventro- 

 cephalic margins of cephalic femora fringed with delicate hairs, 

 the longest proximad. Tarsal joints relatively small; metatarsus 

 hairy except ventro-distad, where a rather large, round pulvillus 

 occurs; three succeeding joints hairy, with brief ventral surfaces 

 each almost completely filled by a rather large, round pulvillus. 

 Arolia moderately large, truncate distad. 



Panchlora cubensis Saussure (Plate VIII, figures 2 to 5.) 



1862. P[anchlora] cubensis Saussure, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 2e ser., xiv, p. 230. [ 9 , 

 Cuba.] 



Though many names now standing in the literature represent 

 almost certainly synonyms of this species, examination of the types, 

 of at least several of these, must be made before the nomenclature 

 of the plain green species of the genus can be put on a secure 

 basis. ^2^ 



The present species is widely distributed throughout the greater 

 Antilles, Mexico and Central America, its distribution extending 

 within the limits of the United States only in the vicinity of Browns- 

 ville, Texas. The insect is frequently shipped alive into the United 

 States, particularly in bananas, but it is an essentially out of doors 

 tropical form and can never become established north of the 

 tropical areas of this country. 



Characters of Male. — (Brownsville, Texas.) Eyes rather broad in front, separated 

 by a brief space which in width is usually about one-eighth the greatest diameter of 

 the eye; ocellar areas weakly concave, ocellar spots faintly suggested. Clear mar- 

 gins of pronotum and tegmina weakly tessellate with greenish and in consequence 

 slightly opaque. Tegmina and wings fully developed, normal for the genus. Supra- 

 anal plate very short, very strongly transverse, distal margin broadly concave, 



323 See Hebard, Ent. News, xxvii, p. 217, (1916). The present species is scon to be a 

 member of the first group of the plain species, and should be placed first in the linear 

 arrangement of the species of the genus. 



