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twenty one season in the month of June in a trap lantern set for 
moths. Other examples in my collection come from Framingham 
(C. A. Frost), North Wilmington, and Wellesley, Mass., and 
were taken between June 4 and 22. The females I have found 
under loose stones, boards, and other debris lying on the ground, 
beneath loose bark, etc., between June 4 and July 27 in eastern 
Massachusetts, and on August 10 at Hartland, Vt. I have 
also seen specimens taken between these dates at Orono, Me., 
and New Haven, Ct. Hebard reports it from as far south as 
North Carolina and Alabama, and west to Minnesota and Kansas. 
Uhler's Wood-roach. 
Parcoblatta tihleriana (Saussure), 
Figs. 28, 31, 34, 35. 
Ischnoptera uhleriana Saussure, Rev. et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 14, p. 169 
(1862).— ScuDDER, Psyche, vol. 9, p. 100 (1900).— Walden, Bull. Geol. 
Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, pp. 55, 162 (1911). 
Ectobia lithophila Scudder, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, p. 417 (1862). 
Ischnoptera johnsoniWAiiDEN, Biill. Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 162 
(1911). 
Platamodes unicolar Scudder, Boston Joum. Nat. Hist:, vol. 7, p. 417 (1862). 
— Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 137 (p. 53 of sep.) (1888). 
The males of this species are very similar to those of P. virginica 
but average slightly broader. The females are very dark, almost 
piceous in color, slightly paler 
on the lateral margins of the 
pronotum and tegmina. The 
characters presented by the 
tegmina in the females and 
the supra-anal plate in the 
males readily distinguish the 
two species. 
This little Roach is less 
common in New England and 
more southern in its range 
than P. virginica. It has 
been reported from the vicin- 
ity of Boston, Mass., west to Michigan and Iowa, and south to 
Florida and Alabama. In habits it is apparently similar to P. 
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Fig. 34. — Uhler's Wood-roach, Parcoblatta 
uhleriana. Male. (After Lugger.) 
Fig. 35. — Parcoblatta uhleriana. Female 
one and one-third times natural size. (After 
Blatchley.) 
