268 NORTH AMERICAN BLATTIDAE 



Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister 



1838. P[criplaneta\ brunnea Burmeister, Handb. Ent., ii, abth. ii, pt. i, p. 503. 

 [cT, 9 : Chile; Demerara [British Guiana].] 



We have discussed this species on page 182. 

 Asheville, North Carolina, VIII, 1897, I 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius) 



1775. [Bhitta] aiislndasiac Fabricius. Syst. Ent., p. 271. ["In nave e mare Pacifico 



et regionibus incognitis revertente."] 



This species is fully discussed on page 185; it is constantly being 

 introduced north of the regions in which it has become established, 

 but is evidently much more decidedly affected by cold than P. 

 americana, and in consequence has never become permanently 

 established in the United States north of the areas in which 

 the winter climate is comparatively mild. In the colder 

 regions of the United States, when it has appeared in greenhouses 

 and such artificially heated places, it has been found to breed and 

 increase in numbers with great rapidity, temporarily becoming a 

 dangerous pest, so that vigorous efforts have been found necessary 

 to exterminate such a colony. ^^^ 



North of Pennsylvania, occasional adventive specimens of the 

 species are constantly being reported; such records are found from 

 Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; Wellesley, Massachusetts; 

 Wallingford and New Haven, Connecticut, and from Minnesota. 



The following adventive material is now before us. 



Rutherford, New Jersey, XI. 19, 1915, (H. B. Weiss; in greenhouse), 2 d", [A. N. 

 S. P.]. 



Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, VI, 30, 1898, i c?, [A. N. S. P.]. 



Radnor, Pa., I, 14, 1905, (J. Hurley; swarming in greenhouses and adjacent 

 homes), 3 a", i 9 , i juv. c?, 2 juv. 9 , [A. N. S. P. and Hebard Cln.]. 



Panchlorinae 



Leucophaea maderae (Fabricius) 



1781. B[Uilta] maderae Fabricius, Spec. Ins., I, p. 341. [Madeira.] 



This large insect is tawny olive in general coloration, incon- 

 spicuously marked with dark brown. It is domiciliary and very 



^'•^ See Skinner, Ent. News, xvi, p. 183, (1905), on the appearance of the insect in great 

 numbers on an estate at Radnor, Pennsylvania. 



