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surface unspined. Pulvilli absent. Arolia moderately large, extending to near 

 apices of tarsal claws, as is true for minutissima. 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



Length of Length of Width of 



CT body'^8 pronotum"' pronotum 



Paraiso, type 4.4 1-2 1.7 



Paraiso, paratype 4.8 1.2 1.7 



The coloration shows no specific diagnostic features of difference from that of 

 minutissima. General color mummy brown; mouthi^arts, limbs and underparts 

 buckthorn brown, except abdomen distad which is mummy brown. Antennae 

 mummy brown proximad, shading to buckthorn brown distad. Tegmina trans- 

 lucent, prout's brown. Cerci buckthorn brown tinged with tawny. 



In addition to the type, a paratypic male bearing the same data, 

 but taken ?vlay 3, 191 1, by E. A. Schwarz, is at hand. 



BUBOBLATTA150 new genus 



The present genus has both sexes showing fully developed and 

 very broad organs of flight. It is very distinctive, but apparently 

 nearest Melestora of the described genera; differing in the presence 

 of ocelli, maxillary palpi with elongate third and fourth joints, 

 very broad tegmina with decided ridges between all of the veins, 

 excepting those of the anal field, and distinctive armament of the 

 limbs. 



The genus is monotypic. Genotype: Btihoblatta armata [Latin- 

 dia armata] (Caudell). 



Generic Description. — Size large when compared with the species 

 of the related genera, form relatively broad, surface well supplied 

 with stiff microscopic hairs. Head not entirely concealed from 

 above by pronotum; interocular space somew^hat flattened, the 

 greatest convexity and projection being between the distinct but 

 minute ocelli. Third and fourth joints of maxillary palpi elongate, 

 decidedly longer than the fifth (distal) joint. Antennae nuich 

 longer than body. 



"* The greater length of the type of minutissima, 6.2 mm., is entirely due to the fact 

 that that specimen is somewhat pressed out. 



'" We find no noteworthy difference for minutissima in pronolal proportions, the 

 pronolum in the type of that species being 1.3 by 1.8 mm., according to our measurement. 



1''" From Bubo, the generic name of the Great Horned and Eagle Owls. In allusion 

 to the mottled owl-like appearance of the species referred to this genus. 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 4. 



