50 NORTH AMERICAN BLATTIDAE 



the Miami specimen ha\ing previously been recorded by Rehn 

 as the synonymous Phyllodromia cubensis (Saussure). 



Specimens Examined: 14; 8 males, 5 females and i immature individual. 



Miami, Florida, (P. Laurent), i 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Key West, Fla., VII, 3 to 7, 1913, (Rehn and Hebard; under the counters of a 

 fruit store, in folds of old burlap bags, in company with Bhitlella germanica, Leuro- 

 lestes pallidiis, Periplaneta americana and Holocompsa mtidtila), 8 c?, 4 ?- i J^v. 

 9 , [Hebard Cln. and A. N. S. P.]. 



CARIBLATTA Hebard 

 1916. Cariblatta Hebard, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xlii, p. 148. 



The present genus, the majority of the species of which are 

 found in the West Indies and northeastern South America, shows 

 much the nearest relationship to the large tropical American genus 

 Neoblattella.^^ At the time of publication, the author had not deter- 

 mined the proper position of Blattella in the Group Blattellites and, 

 as Shelford had placed Neoblattella after that genus, the same course 

 was followed for the present genus. The genus In linear arrange- 

 ment should, however, follow Supella and come before Neoblattella, 

 the latter genus preceding Blattella. 



Genotype, by original designation : Cariblatta piinctidata [Blatta 

 pimctulata] (Beauvois). 



Generic Characters.^- — Size small to very small, form moderately 

 slender to distinctly slender for the group. Sexes showing but 

 little difference In size and form.«=' Head with eyes well separated, 

 inter-ocular-ocellar area weakly defined, weakly flattened; ocellar 

 areas not strongly defined. Pronotum weakly convex, lateral 

 margins convex, caudal margin convex truncate. Tegmlna (In 

 normally full developed condition"^) delicate, not broad; discoldal 

 sectors few (in the majority of species 5, In hisularis and possibly 

 punctipennis often 6), longitudinal. Wings hyaline, weakly to 



6' This genus was compared with Ccmblatta, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xlii, p. 148, footnote 3. 



"- The original description of the genus is much more detailed, only the most important 

 characters being here given. 



"3 Though but slight differences in size and form are found in the sexes of lutea, the 

 sexes of this species are distinctly more dissimilar than those of any of the other species 

 of the genus. 



'^* The only known species of the genus, in which distinct reduction of the organs of 

 flight occurs, is lutea. 



