136 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I4I 



Herpomyces grenadinus Thaxter 



Natural host. — Cockroach, Grenada, B.W.I, (Thaxter, 1931) : On 

 antennae of a "brown wingless blattid." 



Herpomyces leurolestis Thaxter 



Natural Jiost. — Leurolestes pallidus, British Guiana and Trinidad 

 (Thaxter, 1931) : On antennae. 



Herpomyces lobopterae Thaxter 



Natural host. — Lohoptera sp., Argentina (Thaxter, 1931) : On an- 

 tennae. 



Herpomyces macropus Spegazzini 



Natural host. — Blahcrus sp. ?, Argentina (Spegazzini, 1917). 



Cockroaches, Peru, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Haiti (Spegazzini, 

 1915, 1917) : Material previously assigned by Spegazzini (1915) to 

 H. paranensis was also placed by him in this new species. Hovv^ever, 

 Thaxter (1931) believed that H. macropus may be synonymous with 

 H. paranensis, but he provisionally retained H. macropus because he 

 had not seen Spegazzini's material. 



Herpomyces nyctoborae Thaxter 



Natural hosts. — Nyctibora tomentosa, U.S.A., Texas (Thaxter, 

 1905, 1908) : On antennae. This cockroach is not established in 

 Texas, and the specimen may have been misidentified (Gurney, per- 

 sonal communication, 1958). 



Nyctibora sp., Argentina (Spegazzini, 1917) : On antennae. 



Herpomyces panchlorae Thaxter 



Natural hosts. — Panchlora nivea, Trinidad (Thaxter, 1931): On 

 antennae. 



Herpomyces panesthiae Thaxter 



Natural host. — Panesthia lobipennis, Ceylon (Thaxter, 1915) : On 

 antennae. 



Herpomyces paranensis Thaxter 



Natural hosts. — Blaberus sp.? Brazil (Thaxter, 1902, 1908): On 

 antennae. 



Blaberus sp., Brazil and Argentina (Spegazzini, 1917) : On an- 

 tennae. 



Cockroaches, Trinidad and Argentina (Thaxter, 1931). 



