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McNeill 



This is the only blattid which is probably indigenous. All the 

 other species in the collection belonging to this family and the three 

 previously reported are well-known cosmopolitan forms. 



This species is pei'haps more closely related to Temnopteryx surni- 

 chrasti Lucas than to any other, but it is readily distinguished from 

 it by the plain color and by the divided supra-anal plate of the male. 



The specimens upon which the species is based were collected at an 

 elevation of 2,000 feet, on the south side of Iguana Cove Mountain, 

 Albemarle Island, on very wet ground covered with an abundant and 

 luxurious vegetation of ferns, shrubs and vines. The specimens were 

 found under leaves. As Mr. Snodgrass searched diligently for insects 

 living under stones and leaves, it is highly probable that the species is 

 restricted to this single locality. One of the specimens contains, 

 partly extruded from its body, a species of Gordias (?)• 



Albemarle, i male, 3 nymphs. 



Subfamily PERIPLANETINiE. 

 PERIPLANETA AUSTRALASIA Fabr. 

 Previously recorded by Bruner from Charles Island. No effort was 

 made to collect blattids, as they were supposed to be cosmopolitan 

 species entirely. 

 Chatham : i male. 



Subfamily PANCHLORIN.E. 

 LEUCOPH.^A SURINAMENSIS Linn. 

 Two immature specimens from Chatham, both females. 

 Three previous expeditions to the Galapagos have reported this 

 species from Charles and Chatham. 



MANTID.E. 



Subfamily MANTIN^. 



GALAPAGIA SOLITARIA Scudd. 



The collection contains eleven specimens from three localities. 

 Seven of them are from Albemarle, the island from which came the 

 single male and female on which Scudder's description is based. 

 These should, therefore, be typical specimens but they are all dull 

 brown in color instead of clay-yellow, the females usually having the 

 pronotum and especially the abdomen with three longitudinal fuscous 

 stripes on an obscure testaceous ground. The males, however, and 

 especially the single adult, are grayish-brown with the tegmina of the 

 same color but with the cross-veins on either side of the main veins 



