MORGAN HEBARD 4I 



In the immature examples the darker markings, found in the 

 early stages of species of the present genus, are unusually extensive. 

 The disk of the pronotum in one is heavily suffused, in the other 

 with large maculae of blackish chestnut brown meso-laterad and 

 with two smaller and more approximate maculae cephalad of 

 these, the remaining portions buffy. The mesonotum is blackish 

 chestnut brown except for a broad meso-proximal area the caudal 

 margin of which is convex, and lateral portions, which are buffy. 

 The metanotum is bufty, narrowly marked along the caudal margin 

 with blackish chestnut brown. The median and four proximal 

 dorsal abdominal segments are chestnut brown, becoming blackish 

 laterad before the lateral margins, which are buffy brown; the 

 succeeding segments are bufty, the more distal washed with brown. 

 The head is blackish chestnut brown, shading to hazel on the 

 occiput. 



MACROPHYLLODROMIA Saussure and Zehntner 

 1893. Macrophyllodromia Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Am., Orth., i, p. 46. 



This genus was erected for the single species, maximiliani, 

 described by Saussure'''^ as a member of the genus Pseudophyl- 

 lodromia. It was apparently considered to be of not more than 

 subgeneric value, but we feel satisfied that not only should it be 

 given full generic status, but also that it represents one of the most 

 distincti\e and in some respects most aberrant units of the Group 

 Blattellitcs. 



We ha\'e prepared the following generic description, based on the 

 material of the species before us. From the literature we believe 

 that all of the characters here given hold good for maxinuliiun, as 

 the two known species are clearly closely related. 



The genus is remarkable among the Blattellites for its relati\ely 

 large size and unusual wing venation, which resembles much more 

 closely the type found in the genus Periplnneta, of the Subfamily 

 Blattinae, than that of any of the Blattellites, showing, howexer, 

 no incomplete rami of the ulnar \ein. 



Among the described genera of the Blattellites, we would place 

 Macrophyllodromia after Latiblattella Hebard and l)efore Platylestes 

 Hebard. It agrees with these genera in having three heavy distal 

 spines on the ventro-cephalic margins (jf the cei)halic femora, the 



*" 1873. Mem. Soc. Sci. Phys. Nat. Gcnev'c, xxiii, p. 100, pi. x, tig. 35. [Mexico.] 

 MEM. .'\M. ENT. SOC, 4. 



