MORGAN HEBARD 163 



Latiblattella luclf rons Hebard 



1917. Latiblattella lucifrons Hebard, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc, no. 2, p. 43, 

 pi. I, figs. 18 to 23. [cf, 9; Santa Rita, Huachuoa and Baboquivari 

 Mountains, Arizona.] 



Venvidio, VI, 24, to IX, 2, 1918, 31 cf, 8 9,2 juv. 



We have recently recorded other Mexican material of the 

 species/^ from San Jose del Cabo, Baja California and Hue- 

 jotitlan, Jalisco. We are still unable to locate L. dilatata (Saus- 

 sure) and L. chichimeca (Saussure), the insufficient descriptions 

 of these species, as we already have stated, leaving us in no 

 dou])t as to their generic positions, but in complete ignorance 

 as far as the most important specific diagnostic characters are 

 concerned. Examination of the types and material from cen- 

 tral and central eastern Mexico can alone clear up the obscurity. 

 It appears from the present material, however, that lucifrons is 

 closely related. In our original discussion we assigned to dila- 

 tata a female from Baja California, which we now believe repre- 

 sents a depauperate specimen of the species recognized as luci- 

 frons. We were in even more serious error at that time in com- 

 paring with males of that species, specimens of the same sex of 

 L. picturata, a species which we have recently described from 

 Baja California. Hence our original comparisons for lucifrons 

 are worthless. 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



The smallest female shows close agreement with the type 

 female of L. dilatata (Saussure) in measurements, the largest male 

 similarly showing as close agreement with the measure: utMits 

 given for the male type of L. chichimeca (Saussure and Zehnt- 

 ner) . 



" Trans. Amer. Ent. Hoc, xlvii, j). 203, (1921). 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVIII. 



