216 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, 714 
On the Genus Phoetalia of Authors (Orthoptera, 
Blattidae, Epilamprinae). 
By James A. G. REHN and Morcan HEBARD. 
In 1875 Stal erected the genus Phoetalia, giving Nauph. 
laevigata P. B. as type, which species is now known to be a 
member of the genus Nyctibora. Thus Phoetalia falls into 
the synonymy under Nyctibora. The difficulty was caused by 
Stal really having material belonging to the genus at present 
under discussion, but confusing the species with the very dif- 
ferent laevigata of Beauvois as other authors had already 
done. We here propose the name Wattenwyliella for the genus 
which has been known as Phoetalia by Kirby, Rehn and 
Hebard and Caudell and as Phaetalia by Shelford, and we 
select Nauphoeta pallida of Brunner as the type. The genus 
includes another species, Nauphoeta circumvagans of Bur- 
meister. 
Wattenwyliella pallida (Brunner). 
1839. Blatta laevigata Serville (not of Beauvois, 1805), Ins. Orth., 
p. 98, No. 21. (Cuba, Martinique.) 
1857. Blatta (Panchlora) laevigata Guerin (not of Beauvois, 1805), 
Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Ins., p. 344. (Cuba.) 
1864. Blatta laevigata Saussure (not of Beauvois, 1805), Mem. 
Mex. Blatt., p. 99, pl. 1, fig. 16. (Cuba; Martinique; San Domingo.) 
1865. Nauphoeta pallida Brunner, Syst. Blatt. p. 286. (Cuba.) 
1868. Nauphoeta marginalis Walker, Cat. Blatt. Br. Mus., p. 41, 
no. 14. (——?) 
1870. Nauphoeta laevigata Saussure (not Blatta laevigata of Beau- 
vois, 1805), Miss. Sci. Mex., Orth., p. 104. (Antilles; Mexico.) 
1893. Nauphoeta laevigata Saussure and Pictet (not Blatta laevigata 
of Beauvois, 1805), Biol. Cent-Amer., Orth, I, p. ror. (Mexico; 
Guatemala; Cuba; San Domingo.) 
1904. Phoetalia pallida Kirby, Synon. Cat. Orth., I, p. 116. (West 
Indies; Brazil; Teneriffe, Canary Islands.) 
1910. Phoetalia laevigata Rehn and Hebard (not Blatta laevigata of 
Beauvois, 1805), Ent. News, xxi, p. 103. (Key Largo, Florida.) 
1910. P(haetalia) laevigata Shelford (not Blatta laevigata of Beau- 
vois, 1805), Gen. Ins., Fasc. 101, Epilamprinae, p. 8. 
1912. Phoetalia laevigata Rehn and Hebard (not Blatta laevigata of 
Beauvois, 1805), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Phila. 1912, p. 240. (Key 
Largo, Florida.) 
