MORGAN HEBARD 359 



Coloration. — Type. Translucent ochraceous tawny, eyes dark 

 mummy brown, median portion of face ochraceous tawny. Limbs 

 and abdomen ochraceous buff, the latter shading to tawny distad. 

 Cerci ochraceous tawny. The males from Lower California are 

 paler than the type, probably due to alcoholic bleaching. This 

 must be considered likewise in the females from that locality, 

 which are chestnut to hair brown on head and abdomen, the 

 pronotum and tegmina slightly paler, kaiser brown to hazel. 

 The tegmina are translucent and in two specimens very slightly 

 paler than the pronotum. 



Specimens Examined: 6; 3 males and 3 females. 



Key West, Florida, VII, 4, 1915, (Hebard; in cupboard of hotel with swarms 

 of Blattella germanica and a few Supella supellectilium) , 1 d^,^' type, [Hebard 

 Cln.]. 



San Jose del Cabo, Lower California, Mexico, 2 c?', 3 9, (dried alcohohc), 

 [Hebard Cln.]. 



The Capitata Group 



This group includes species known only from the Bahamas and 

 the Greater Antilles, all of which show rather general affinity 

 except *S. bicolor, the male genitalia of which are extraordinarily 

 specialized. Both sexes have fully developed tegmina and wings, 

 while the males have the median and distal dorsal abdominal 

 segments specialized and the supra-anal plate produced.^* 



Symploce jaznaicana (Rehn) (Plate XVIII, figs. 5, 6 and 7.) 



1903. Iscfmoptera jamaicana Rehn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxix, p. 264. 

 [cf, Jamaica; 9, [Port Antonio,] Portland [Parish], Jamaica.] 



Of the species of the Capitata Group, the Bahaman S. morsel 

 shows the nearest resemblance to the present species, the special- 

 ization of the dorsal surface of the male abdomen being in several 

 respects more similar than in any of the other closely related 

 species. The interocular space is appreciably less in jamaicana 

 than in the other species of the present group, in this respect and 

 in the ocelli, males agreeing more closely with that sex of S. lita. 



Single type here selected. — cf ; Jamaica. [Acad. Nat, Sci. Phila., 

 Type no. 5153.] 



^^ Recorded by Rehn and Hebard as Ischnoplera riifcscens (Beauv.), (1914). 

 At that time the nomenclatorial confusion of rufa, rufescens, capitata and blai- 

 toides was at its height. 



2* The character of this production in S. bicolor is, however, very different 

 from the type found in the other species. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



