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species by Felt, the Boston, Salem and Brooklyn records are all 

 placed under hyalina of Saussure. 



In considering these various names, we can state that viridis 

 and 7iivea are names referable to a South American complex, no 

 individuals of which have appeared in collections of material 

 adventive in the United States. Shelford has, after examination 

 of the types, placed virescens in the synonymy under nivea, while 

 exoleta is a normally larger insect, of which species the first speci- 

 men adventive in the United States, and hitherto unrecorded, is 

 now before us. Saussure's poeyi, from the original description, 

 appears to be an absolute synonym of his cubensis, based on the 

 opposite (cT) sex. from Cuba. Saussure's hyalina (renamed 

 translucida by Kirby) does not belong to the plain green species, 

 being one of the forms in which the antennae bear a black an- 

 nulus; Blatta hyalina of StoU is a different insect, so poorly described 

 and figured that it can merely be located as one of the plain green 

 forms of the present genus, and in consequence, with type destroyed 

 and no locality given, we believe that name best treated as un- 

 identifiable. 



Scudder has recorded the species as viridis, taken on a steamer 

 en route from Jamaica to the United States, in order to show the 

 usual means of introduction of the species. Wholly contrary to the 

 opinion expressed by Felt, we do not believe the present insect 

 can establish itself in temperate climates except under artificial con- 

 ditions. It is essentially an out-of-doors dweller in the tropics and 

 can not adapt itself to artificial surroundings, as the domiciliary 

 forms do so readily. 



Panchlora exoleta Burmeister 



1838. P[anchlom] exoleta Burmeister, Handb. Ent., ii, abth. ii, pt. i, p. 507. 

 [Para and Bahia, Brazil.] 



This species is closely related to P. cubensis. Females may 

 solely be distinguished by their average decidedly larger size and 

 more opaciue margins of the pronotum and marginal fields of the 

 tegmina.^i^ 



""" These characters are found in a series of the species before us. 

 MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



