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broadly banded on each segment with antimony yellow; ventral surface of 

 abdomen much washed with prout's brown, more strongly so laterad, lateral 

 spots nearly fuscous. Limbs of the ventral color, spines chestnut, black tipped; 

 tarsi dull ochraceous buff. 



Length of body, 26.8 mm.; length of pronotum, 6.3; greatest width of pro- 

 notum, 11.4; length of tegmen, 23; greatest width of tegmen, 8.2. 



The type of this most remarkable genus and species is unique. 



Zetobora emarginata Burmeister 



1838. Z[etobora] emarginata Burmeister, Handb. der Entom., ii, abth. ii, pt. 1, 

 p. 511. [Pard,, Brazil.] 



Para, Para. (W. M. Mann.) One female. 

 This topotypic individual fully agrees with the only published 

 descriptions of the same sex, — the very brief original one of 

 Burmeister and the more detailed one of the synonymous per- 

 spicua Walker. The emargination of the pronotal margin men- 

 tioned in the original description, and which Brunner was unable 

 to locate, doubtless because he did not have the female sex, is 

 quite shallow and subtle in character, but apparent immediately 

 caudad of the lateral angle of the pronotum. 



Phortioeca peruana Saussure 



1862. Z[eiobora] (Phortioeca) peruana Saussure, Revue et Magasin de Zool- 

 ogie, 2e ser., xiv, p. 232. [Peru.] 



Madeira-Mamore Railroad Company Camp 39, Rio 

 Madeira. (Mann and Baker.) One female. 



This specimen fully agrees with the descriptions of the species 

 except that the supra-anal plate is decidedly less truncate. This 

 is apparently the first exact record of the species. 



BLABERINAE 



Petasodes reflexa (Thunberg) 



" 1826. Blatta reflexa Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. P^tersb., x, p. 278." 



Para, Para. (C. F. Baker.) One female. [A. N. S. P.] 



Para, Para. (W. Mann.) One female. 

 Although the species and its congener P. doniinicana (Bur- 

 meister) have frequently been referred to in the literature of the 

 subject, and several times as common, there is almost nothing 

 known regarding the exact distribution of the forms. From the 

 fragmentary information before us, more complete, however, 

 than anything in the literature, it would seem as if rcjlexa occurred 

 in northeastern Brazil and (loniinicana in southeastern Brazil. 



