158 GENUS CARIBLATTA (oRTHOPTERA) 



Coloration. — Head showing the normal color pattern, (see page- 

 155, footnote 10); ocellar spots located in pale area and, in conse- 

 quence, usually inconspicuous. Pronotum with lateral margins 

 transparent with a very weak brownish suffusion; from the 

 cephalic to the caudal margin run two blackish brown bands 

 which, weakly diverging caudad, occupy the lateral margins of 

 the disk, these bands briefly invade the mesal portion of the 

 disk, which is clear light buff, immaculate except for a pair of 

 exceedingly slender pencilled lines of dark brown. At the caudal 

 margin of the disk the dark lateral bands spread out forming 

 pyramids of that color, the apices of which are lost cephalad in 

 the bands and the bases of which fuse mesad on the caudal margin. 

 Tegmina transparent tinged with brownish; a heavy elongate 

 suffused band of mummy brown extending from the base of the 

 discoidal vein usually two-thirds the distance to its distal ex- 

 tremity; the entire area occupied by the discoidal sectors suffused 

 with mummy brown, these sectors and the numerous cross- 

 veinlets strongly defined in this color. Wings transparent with 

 a dark suffusion, strongly iridescent; veins and cross-veinlets 

 conspicuously dark brown, excepting area of enlarged portions 

 of costal veins which is conspicuously buff. Limbs and under- 

 parts cinnamon buff, the abdomen slightly suffused mesad and 

 laterad with brown, this suffusion shining blackish brown and 

 more decided in the females, in that sex spreading out over the 

 greater portion of the subgenital plate. The limbs at the bases 

 of the heavier spines are usually heavily flecked with dark brown. 



Specimens Examined: 8; 3 males, 5 females. 



Aibonito, Porto Rico, VII, 14 to 17, 1914, (H. G. Barber), IcT, [Am Mus. 

 Nat. Hist.]. 



Stony Hill, St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica, X, 25, 1913, (Hehard; in leaves on 

 leaf mould in hillside forest), 2cf, 5 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



Cariblatta punctulata (Beauvois) (PI. XI, figs. 2 and 3; PI. XII, figs. 4 



to 8; PI. XIII, figs. 1 and 2.) 

 1805. Blatta punctulata Beauvois, Ins. Rec. Afr. Amer., p. 184, Orth. pi. lb, 



fig. 8. [San Domingo.] 

 1857. Blatta {Phyllodromia) dclicalula Cueriii, in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist 



Cul)a, Ins., p. 346. [Cuba.] 



It is not surprising that the present species was redescribed by 

 Guerin, there appearing the most complete description of the 



