IVi CATALOGUE OF 



97. Blatta variegata. 



Mas. Nigrn^ elliplica; caput prothoracem sat superans ; palpi flave- 

 scenles ; anlenncc (jracillimce, corpore mullo longiores ; prolhorax 

 Jlavo quadnvilliilw^ ; abdomen plceum^ sublux fulvum ; cercl tpslacei, 

 sublux picei : alee anlicce picea, villa coslali informi abbreviata strigis- 

 ' que longiludinalibus Jlavescenlibus ; alee posticce cinerece, venis 

 striguque coslali nigris. 



Male. Black, elliptical, smooth, sliiiiingf. Head extending somewhat 

 beyond the prolhorax, somewhat broad. Eyes reddish, wide apart. Palpi 

 pale yellowish. Antennae very slender, minutely setulose, much lonpjer 

 than the body. Prolhorax with four slender yellow stiipes, two in the disk 

 and two marginal; fore border slightly rounded; sides rounded; hind 

 border straight. Abdomen piceous, lawny beneath. Cerci testaceous, 

 lanceolate, rather long and slender, piceous beneath. Legs pale testaceous ; 

 femora setose. Wings rather longer than the abdomen. Fore wings 

 piceous, with an irregular and abbreviated yellowish costal stripe and with 

 several yellowish longitudinal streaks in the disk; costal area broad; trans- 

 verse sectors numerous. Hind wings cinereous; veins black; a black 

 costal streak ; costal area broad ; discoidal area with some forked veins and 

 a few transverse sectors; anal area with very few transverse sectors. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



o. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Genus 9. ISCHNOPTERA. 

 Ischnoptera, Burm. Handb. Enl. ii. 500; Sauss. Hist. Nat. Mex. iii. 78. 



Sect. 1. Sauss. H. N. M. iii. 80. 



Div. 1. Sams. H. N. M. iii. 80. 



\. Ischnoptera lineata. 



Blatta lineata, Oliv. Enc. iv. 317. Pal. Beauv. Ins. 218, pi. 11, c, f. 5. 

 Serv. Hist. Orlh. 98 — Ischnoptera lineata, Sauss. Hist. Nat. Mex. 

 iii. 80. 



Cayenne. 



Div. 2. Sauss. H. N. M. iii. 80. 

 2. Ischnoptera brevipennis. 



brevipennis, Sauss. Rev. Zool. xv\. 313; Hist. Nat. Mex. iii. 80, f. II — 



Kakerlac castanea ? Blanch. Hist. Chil. vi. 18, pi. 1, f. 2. 

 Chili. 



