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Measurements: Male— Length of body, 14 mm.; of tegmina, 15.5 mm.; 

 of pronotum, 3.5 mm.; width of pronotum, 4.5 mm. Female — Length of 

 body, 13 mm.; of tegmina, 4 mm.; of pronotum, 4.5 mm.; width of pro- 

 notum, 6 mm. 



In Indiana this handsome cockroach has been noted only in Vigo county, 

 and there in but one locality, the border of a marsh in a low, sandy woods 

 three miles east of Terre Haute. 



A single pair were taken on May 28th, and on June 18th probably a 

 dozen specimens were secured. They were hiding beneath small logs and 

 sticks, and the males when deprived of their shelter flew actively away 

 while the females could but crawl, and that rather sluggishly for a Blattid, 

 towards a new hiding place. 



Brunner {he. tit.) recorded it from "Amerique du Nord," and I can rind 

 no other note of its occurrence in the United States. 

 IV. Ectobia, Westwood (1839). 



Sub-anal stylets of males wanting ; last abdominal sternite of females 

 entire. Supra-anal plates rounded, entire, somewhat carinated above. 

 Abdomen much broader than front portion of body, its greatest breadth 

 contained less than twice in its total length. Tegmina, in both sexes, not 

 reaching tip of abdomen. 

 6. Ectobia flavocincta, Scudder. The Short-winged Cockroach. 



Ectobia flavo-tincta, Scudder, Boat. Journ. Nat. Hist., VII., 1882, 418. 



Comstock, Intr. to Ent., I., 1888, 93. 

 Blatta? flavo-tincta, Fernald, Orth. N. Eng., 1888, 51. 



This is a short, broad-bodied, native species, in which the tegmina 

 cover only about two-thirds of the abdomen, while the wings are much 

 shorter. The disk of pronotum and dorsal surface of abdomen are dark 

 brown, the tegmina reddish brown. A rather broad yellowish stripe ex- 

 tends from the head along the deflexed lateral border of pronotum and 

 the basal third of tegmina. The sides of the lower half of the face are 

 white, and all the limbs are pale yellow. Antenna' dark brown, a 

 little longer than the body. 



Measurements : Length of body, 16 mm. ; of tegmina, 9 mm. ; of wings, 

 6.5 mm. ; of antenna 1 , IS mm. ; of pronotum, 5 mm. ; width of pronotum, 

 6.5 mm. ; width of abdomen, 9.5 mm. 



Mature individuals of this species are not uncommon beneath bark 

 and logs from June to October. Specimens of such are in my collection 

 from Marshall, Putnam, and Vigo counties. I have not, as yet, been able 

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