Feb., 1919 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 23 
THE IDENTITY OF EVANIA URBANA BRADLEY, 1908 AND 
EVANIA PUNCTATA BRULLE, 1832. 
By J. BEQuaERT, New York, N. Y. 
In describing Evania urbana (Trans. American Ent. Soc., 
XXXIV, 1908, pp. 140-141) J. C. Bradley remarks: “It is of 
course possible that it may represent another exotic species, 
migrating similarly to E. appendigaster.’ Indeed, the distribu- 
tion of this species in the United States, where it has been found 
in houses in the eastern cities only, made this suggestion appear 
very plausible. 
A small collection of Hymenoptera recently sent to me by my 
friend, Mr. E. de Bergevin, of Algiers, included a specimen of 
Evania punctata Brullé, taken at Tunis, which agrees perfectly 
with my North American specimens of E. urbana. I have also 
carefully compared it with two paratypes of the latter, taken in 
New York City and preserved in the collection of the American 
Museum of Natural History. Moreover, Bradley’s detailed de- 
scription and figures fit the Tunis specimen admirably. Schlet- 
terer (Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien, IV, 1880, p. 140, Pl. VI, 
fig. 8) gives a good account of E. punctata, which was originally 
described by Brullé in Expédition Scientifique de Morée, Zoologie, 
Ill, pt. 1, 1832, p. 378. Professor Bradley, who has kindly 
examined the Tunis specimen, is also of the opinion that E. 
urbana and E. punctata are the same species. 
It would appear that E. punctata is not so widely spread as E. 
appendigaster, which, through the agency of man, has now be- 
come nearly cosmopolitan. Both species, however, might have 
been often confused. Schletterer gives the range of punctata 
in the Old World as follows: Southern France, Austria, Dalmatia, 
Carniola, Hungary, Italy, Greece, Syria, Palestine; and one 
record for southern Germany (Stuttgart). It is interesting to 
note that in New York City this cockroach-parasite is seem- 
ingly more abundant than its relative, E. appendigaster. Thus 
out of six specimens of Evania caught in my rooms during the 
last three years, five are punctata and a single one is appendi- 
gaster. 
