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Blattinae 

 Cutilia soror (Brunner) 



1865. P[oly::osfcna] soror Brunner, Nouv. Syst. Blatt., p. 219. 

 [ $ , Amboina.] 



Kahoolawe Island, (H. A. Pilsbry ), 15,29, [x\cad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila.]. 

 Kawaihapai, Oahu, II, 4, 1913, (H. A. Pilsbry), i juv., [Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila.]. 



This species, originally described from Amboina, is now known 

 to be widely distributed through the islands of the southern Pacific. 

 It was first correctly recorded from Hawaii by Perkins,'^** who also 

 included in his list Methana ligata Brunner, possibly mistaking 

 immatures of the present insect for adults of that species. Brun- 

 ner"^ records Methana ligata as from Hawaii on the authority of 

 Bormans, but on turning to the citation^- we find that Pcriplancta 

 ligata had instead been recorded. It would appear almost certain 

 that all the Hawaiian records of either Pcriplancta ligata or Me- 

 thana ligata are properly referable to Cutilia soror. 



The caudal metatarsus is elongate and biseriately spined beneath, bear- 

 ing a large distal pulvillus. This feature is characteristic of the genus Cu- 

 tilia, distinguishing it from the related Platyzosteria — according to Shelford, 

 who, however, placed soror in the latter genus,'^^' though Kirby had already 

 referred it to Cutilia.''' 



The insect is said to be almost as common in the houses at 

 Honolulu as P. decorata (=Neostylopyga rhonihifolia (Stoll)). 



Neostylopyga rliombifolia (Stoll) 



1813. [Blatta] rliojuhifolia Stoll, Xatuur. Afbeeld. Beschr. Spo- 

 ken, Kakkerlakken, p. 5, register p. 14, pi. Hid, fig. 13. 

 [Apparently an immature female, no locality given.] 



^" Fauna Ilawaiiensis, II, p. 6, (1899), as Polyzostcria soror. 



'' Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, P- 893- (1895). 



''Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, XVIII, p. 344, (1883). 



''Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1909, p. 256, (1909). 



"^ Syn. Cat. Orth., I, p. 134, (1904). 



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