MORGAN HEBARD IO9 



Limon Plantation, Rio Chagres, Panama, VII, 14, 1918, (Dietz and Zetek; sweep- 

 ings around corn field), i 9 , [United States National Museum]. 



This species is closely related to P. minor Saussure and Zehntner, 

 agreeing in shining coloration and annulate antennae. It differs 

 in the female sex in the larger size, slightly broader form, greater 

 intcrocular space, which fully equals the ocular width, and in the 

 median portion of the free margin of the subgcnital plate, which is 

 not straight transverse, but shows a weak and broad conca\ity, as 

 much as that at the cereal bases. 



The dark antennal annulus occupies four and six joints in this 

 specimen. 



Phortioeca phoraspoides (Walker) (Plate VI, figure i.) 



1871. Zetohora phoraspoides Walker, Cat. Derm. Saltat. Brit. Mus., v, Suppl. 



Blatt., p. 8. [cf ; Chontales, Nicaragua.] 

 1893. Zetohora suhlobata Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent. -Am., Orth., i. p. 102. 



[ c? ; Pantaleon, Guatemala.] 



Cabima, Panama, V, 22, 1911, (Busck), i d", 2 9 , 14 juv. in 3 instars. 



This roach, though handsome in the adult winged condition, 

 with pronotum black, ochraceous-buff meso-cephalad and ferrugi- 

 nous latero-cephalad, is even more striking in the immature 

 stages (see plate VI, fig. i). Then individuals are ochraceous- 

 buff to ochraceous-tawny, showing a beautiful, intricate and sym- 

 metrical heavy pattern of black. In the immature stages only, 

 this species is strongly patelliform.^'^" 



This species has also been recorded from San Carlos, Costa Rica. 



CAPUCINELLA new genus 



This genus is closely related to Capucina Saussure, agreeing in 

 general character of structure, but differing in the smaller size, 

 head with face flat but not concave, very delicate but not at all 

 coriaceous pronotum and shorter distal tarsal joint, with arolium 

 proportionately more ample. 



Furthermore the sexes of the present genus are very different in 

 general appearance. The male has the organs of flight fully 

 developed, more so than in Capucina, the pronotum somewhat less 



130 \Ye use this term to characterize the type of roach which is flattened, weakly convex 

 above and concave beneath. Such structure enables the individual to press itself closely 

 under bark or debris and doubtless when approached to retract head, antennae and limbs, 

 leaving exposed only the protected dorsal surface. A genus of limpets bears the name 

 Patella. 



^lEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 4. 



