no THE BLATTIDAE OF PANAMA 



transverse, and the tegmina very delicate and not at all coriaceous, 

 with venation less crowded. 



The female entirely, lacks organs of flight and agrees with nym- 

 phal material of the genus Capucina in having all of the dorsal 

 segments produced laterad, this in proportion to the production of 

 the pronotum cephalad, but narrowing caudad, and there in like 

 proportion to the production of the supra-anal plate. 



Thus in Capiicinella, unlike in Capucina, the remarkable patelli- 

 form^^^ type of the immature condition is retained in adults of the 

 female sex. 



Genotype: CapucineUa delicatida new species. 



Generic Description. — Male. Head very small, interocular space 

 very narrow, entire face flat. Antennae delicate, decidedly shorter 

 than body, first joint very elongate, cylindrical. Maxillary 

 palpi very short. Pronotum extending beyond head a distance 

 nearly equal to the cephalic length, structure extremely delicate; 

 surface feebly and finely vermiculate-cribrose without minute 

 nodules, cucullate above head, not reflexed, meso-laterad broadly 

 and distinctly depressed, concave; cephalic and caudal margins 

 very feebly cingulate, equally rather strongly convex to lateral 

 angles, which are at a point mesad between the cephalic and caudal 

 extremities, these angles very slightly less than rectangulate and 

 very sharply rounded. Tegmina very delicate, broad, extending 

 beyond apex of abdomen a greater distance than in Capucina, with 

 apex broadly rounded; delicate veins in anal and discoidal fields 

 rather widely spaced and connected by numerous transverse vein- 

 lets. Wings very delicate, intercalated triangle absent. Abdo- 

 men broad, lateral margins of dorsal segments dilated, latero-caudal 

 angles rounded, but little produced caudad. Genitalia character- 

 istic of the Panchlorinae. 



Female. Head broader than in male but in general similar, ex- 

 cept that the eyes are strongly reduced and are resultantly separated 

 by a very wide space, while the antennae are much shorter. The 

 pronotum is delicate, but not as extremely delicate as in the male 



^'1 This term is used to characterize the type of roach which is flattened, vvealdy convex 

 above and concave beneath. The name is derived from that of the genus of Hmpcts 

 called Patella. 



