MORGAN HEBARD II3 



flecks and patches washed with cinnamon brown. ^32 Remaining portions of dorsal 

 surface light ochraceous-buff, washed with russet toward the tegminal and wing 

 bases on mesonotum and metanotum and shading to ochraceous-buff meso-distad 

 on abdomen. Head, ventral surface and limbs ochraceous-buff, this slightly deeper 

 on femora. Eyes blackish mummy brown. Antennae ochraceous-buff proximad, 

 shading to mummy brown in remaining portions (over two-thirds), except terminal 

 joint which is ochraceous-buff. Cephalic tibiae with a minute fleck of prout's 

 brown proximad on cephalic face, so that this is concealed by the slightly produced 

 and rounded genicular lobe of the cephalic femora when the limbs are flexed. 



Female. Buffy in general coloration, the dorsal surface covered with a micro- 

 scopic network of a cinnamon brown incrustation. Underparts lighter buffy. 

 Head with a weak, irregular, mottled and rather narrow interocular band of prout's 

 brown, and a blackish interocellar band, this latter continued briefly beneath each 

 of these points. Antennae more sharply mummy brown mesad than in male, with 

 (three to five) distal joints pale buff. Cerci with a heavy band of blackish brown 

 occupying their median half. 



In the adventive specimens, here recorded, the interocellar band sends a median 

 suffusion ventrad to the labrum, the face thus bearing a heavy, blackish, roughly 

 T-shaped marking. 



In addition to the type and allotype, the following material is 

 before us. 



San Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de Santa iMarta, Alagdalena, Colombia, VIII, 23, 

 1913, (M. A. Carriker, Jr.), i juv., 3 small juv., taken with type, [Hebard Collection]. 



At quarantine, New York, received in orchids imported from Bogota, Columbia, 

 V, 1915, (H. B. Shaw), 2 9, [United States National Museum]. 



Subfamily BLABERINAE 

 Archimandrita tessellata Rehn 



1903. Archimandrita tessellata Rehn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxix, p. 287. [cf ; San 

 Carlos, Costa Rica.] 

 Panama, (Harrower), i cf . 



Colon, Pan., V, 1913, (Zetek), i c^, [Hebard Collection]. 

 Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Pan., I, 1907, (Busck), i cf . 

 Gorgona, C. Z., Pan., (Jennings), i cf . 



The present species is the largest and has the broadest tegmina 

 of the Central American Blaberinae. This and the tcssellate 

 tegmina readily distinguish the species from any of the forms of the 

 genus Blabcriis. 



''- This may be due to the specimen being slightly soiled, rather than to its pigmenta- 

 tion. We would note that whereas our series of Capucina patula (Walker), from Costa 

 Rica, all show an incrustation to varying degrees on pronotum and tegmina, none have 

 these portions co\-ered by "velvety pile", as described for the synonymous cticullata by 

 Saussure and Zehntncr (Biol. Cent. Amer., Orth., i, p. 103, (1893)). 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 4. 



