AMERICAN ORTHOPTEEA. 259 



STUDIES IN AMERICAN BEATTID.E. 



BY JAMES A. U. REHN. 



Of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



The following notes are the results of an examination of all the 

 undetermined American Blattidre in the collection of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and a large amount of material 

 from the United States National Museum. The latter consisted 

 chiefly of the Schild and Burgdorf collection from Costa Rica, and 

 the Palmer and Riley collection from Cuba. 



The collections of the two institutions are indicated in the follow- 

 ing pages by their respective initials. 



The author is indebted to Mr. W. H. Ashmead of the U. S. 

 National Museum for the privilege of studying the material belong- 

 ing to that institution. 



Subfamily Ectobiin.e. 



Genus ANAPLECTA Burmeister. 

 1S38, Anaplecta Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent., Bd. ii, p. 494. Included 

 ^4. minutissima (De Geer), lateralis Bui in. ; dorsalis Burin., and unicoloi 



Burm. 



% napleotii flabellata Saussure and Zehntner. 



1893, Anaplecta flabellata Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Ortli., i. 

 p. 29. [Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico; Chacoj, Vera Paz, Guatemala: 

 Bugaba, Panama.] 



Two females; Tucurrique and Piedras Negras, Costa Rica. 

 (Schild and Burgdorf.) [U. S. N. M.] 



These specimens belong to the pale form of the species, which has 

 the anal field of the tegmina unclouded and the median transverse 

 bar but slightly marked. 



Anaplecta fulgida Saussure. 



1862. A[naplecta] fulgida Saussure, Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e aer., 

 xiv, p. 163. [Guatemala.] 



One male; Piedras Negras, Costa Rica. (Schild and Burgdorf.) 

 [U. S. N. M.] 



This specimen considerably extends the range of the species. 

 Capetillo, Guatemala, being the most southern locality previously 

 recorded. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIX. SEPTEMBER. 1903 



