MORGAN HEBARD 361 



Coloration. — Head, underparts and limbs warm buff to light 

 ochraceous buff. Eyes sepia. A dot of this color is found at 

 the base of each coxa and laterad on the second to sixth ventral 

 abdominal segments. Pronotum warm buff, very weakly washed 

 with tawny on the disk. Tegmina transparent warm buff. Dor- 

 sal surface of abdomen narrowly but conspicuously bordered 

 laterad with warm buff", mesal portion disto-laterad blackish 

 chestnut brown, shading to cinnamon brown and dresden brown 

 mesad and proximad; supra-anal plate of male warm buff with 

 proximo-mesal portion blackish chestnut brown, of female warm 

 buff. 



Immature examples are very differently colored. Abdomen 

 beneath blackish brown, limbs ochraceous tawnj^, the head often 

 darker. Pronotum deep chestnut brown, paler caudad, with 

 lateral margins rather broadly, and cephalic margin more nar- 

 rowly, ochraceous buff. Mesonotum and metanotum likewise 

 rather broadly bordered laterad and mesal portions similarly 

 marked. Dorsal abdominal segments with lateral margins nar- 

 rowly and inconspicuously pale, mesal portions blackish chestnut 

 brown with each segment narrowly margined distad with russet. 



Specimens Examined: 13; 5 males, 2 females, 6 immature examples. 



Jamaica, (C. W. Johnson), 1 (f , type, [A. N. S. P.]. 



Port Antonio, Portland Parish, Jamaica, (C. "W. Johnson), 1 9, allolijpe, 

 [A. N. S. P.]. 



Gregory Park, St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica, X, 2.5, 1912, (Hebard; dead 

 leaves under acacia and other shrubs in desert tract), 2 juv. 9, 1 small juv. 

 9 , [Hebard Chi.]. 



Montego Bay, St. James Parish, Jamaica, III, 17, 1911, (J. A. Grossbeck; 

 under log), 1 d", [A. M. N. H.]; X, 28, 1912, (Hebard; under rubbish on Ume- 

 stone sand near beach in open), 3 cf , 2 juv. cf , 1 juv. 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



Little Cayman Island, IV, 1888, 1 9 , [M. C. Z.]. 



Symploce capitata (Saussure) (Plate XVII, fig. 9; pi. XVIII, figs. 8, 9, 10.) 

 1862. Bl[atla\ capUata Saussure, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 2e Scr., xiv, p. 167, 

 [cf , Cuba.] 



The original description is poor, but the species was much 

 more fully and satisfactorily described by Saussure in 1864.^^ 



This distinctive species was unfortunately synonymized under 

 blattoides Saussure, by that author, in 1870.''- That species bears 



« M6m. Mex., Blatt., p. 114, pi. I, fig. 19. 

 *2 Miss. Sci. Mex., Rech. Zool., Orth., p. 54. 



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