182 Journal New York Entoimological Society. [Voi. xii. 



Apierygida ttEiii.ita Borni., Das Tierr. , ii, no, 1900. 

 Forjictda luteipes Scudd., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xviii, 255, 1876. 

 Sphitigolahis tiDiiata Borm., Biol. Cent.-A:r.er. , Orth., i, 12, pi. 2, figs. 17-19, 1893. 

 Apterygida linearis Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Philad., I903, 310, 1903. 



Seven females, November ; four males, one female, no date. 



The employment of Eschscholtz's old name for this common and 

 widely distributed species brings up the question of whether absolute 

 identification is necessary to justify the resurrection of old unidentified 

 specific names for species more recently characterized. Personally I 

 am of the opinion that it is justifiable, for it seems better to utilize 

 old identified names for known species even at the expense of a few 

 recent names than continue them as meaningless terms or included in 

 doubtful synonymy. The one essential thing to be observed, and one 

 to be insisted upon, is that no such application of an old unidentified 

 name to a known species shall be made when the description or diag- 

 nosis of the old species differ in any particular from the characters 

 exhibited by the known species to which the old name is applied. I 

 therefore employ here the name linearis instead of the more recent 

 tccniata as has already been done by Mr. Rehn. 



Family BLATTID.E:. 



Anaplecta albomarginata Saussure & Zehntner. 



Anaplecta albomarginata Sauss. & Zehnt., Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., i, 26, 1893. 

 Anaplecta albomarginata Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Torino, xv, No. 377, i, 1900. 



One female, November. 



Anaplecta lateralis Burmeister. 



Anaplecta lateralis Burm., Handb. Ent. , ii, 494, 1838. 



Anaplecta lateralis Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Torino, ix, No. 184, i, 1894. 



Anaplecta sosia Sauss. , MS. 



One female, October. 



The type of A. sosia Sauss., apparently undescribed, is in the 

 National Museum from Costa Rica. It is mentioned as a new species 

 by Biolley in Tomado, del informe del Museo Nacional, 43, 1900, but 

 no reference is given. It does not seem to differ specifically from this 

 specimen from Paraguay. 



Kakerlac borellii Giglio-Tos. 



Loboptera /^(vW/n Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Torino, xii. No. 302, 3, 1897. 



One female, February. 



