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talis and Periplaneta spp., and these are doubtless its hosts in the 

 United States also. 



Genus PROSEVANIA Kieffer 



Prosci^anla Kieffek, Aim. Soc-. Eut. France, vol. 80, p. loT, 1911. Type: Evania 

 (Prosevania) ofra Kieffer. Designated by Viereck, 1914. 



As defined in the key, Prosevania is a large genns of the Old World 

 Tropics. A single introduced species is common in the cities of the 

 Easteni United States. 



PROSEVANIA PUNCTATA (Biulle), new combination 



Evania punctata Bbuxl6, Expedition scientifique de Mor^e, vol. 3, p. 378, 1833. 



Type : Greece ( ? Paris). 

 Evania urbana Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 34, p. 140, 1908. Type: S , 



Pliiladelphia, Pa. (Philadelphia). 



This species differs from most others of its genus in its more robust 

 thorax, shoulder carina of pronotum extending downward on each 

 side nearly to the lower corner of the pronotum ; shoulders of pro- 

 notum rather rounded ; and speculum not reaching the front edge of 

 the mesopleurum but bounded anteriorly by some fine punctures. 

 Among the Nearctic evaniids, its large size (forewing 5.5 to 7.5 mm. 

 long) makes it superficially similar only to Evania appendigaster, 

 but in addition to the generic characters it is easily distinguished from 

 that species by its coarsely striatopunctate face and its pleura reticula- 

 topunctate except at the speculum. 



Specimens. — Many males and females from Delaware (New Castle 

 County) ; District or Columbia (Washington) ; Georgia (Atlanta) ; 

 New Jersey (Newark and Plainfield) ; New York (Brooklyn, Flat- 

 bush, Ithaca, Long Island, New York, and Yonkers) ; North Caro- 

 lina (Elizabeth City) ; Ohio (Columbus) ; Pennsylvania (Harris- 

 burg and Philadelphia) ; and Virginia (Falls Church, Norfolk, and 

 Roanoke). Collecting dates for these specimens range throughout 

 the growing season. The first record of capture in the Nearctic Re- 

 gion is a specimen taken in Washington, D. C., August 29, 1898, by 

 F. C. Pratt. 



This species is a native of the Mediterranean Region and is natiu-al- 

 ized in the cities of the Eastern United States from New York and 

 Ohio south to Georgia. Though no rearing records are available, the 

 large size of the species and its occurrence in cities indicate that 

 it is a parasite of Periplaneta spp. and Blatta orientalis. 



Genus EVANIELLA Bradley 



Evaniella Buadley, Can. Ent., vol. 37, p. 64, 1905. Type: {Evania vnicolor Say 

 as misdetermined by Ashmead) =semaeoda Bradley. Original designation. 



