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11. Elytra abbreviata, squamiformia vel nulla. Pronotum parabolicum, postice trans versum. 



2. Caput prominulum. Femora anteriora subtus margine postico inermia. c? 6 complete 

 alati. Abdominis margines haud serrati. Lamina supra-analis ultra segmentum 

 ventrale vix prominulum, transversa, arcuata, vel vix incisa. — Calolampba, Sss. 

 22. Caput obtectum. Corpus depressum, ellipticum. 



3. Lamina supra-analis transversa, arcuata, subincisa, vix prominula. Corpus nitidum. 

 4. Femora anteriora subtus margine antico piloso, postico spina unica. Elytra $ d 

 truncata. Corpus gracile ; abdominis margines haud serrati. (Ep. liturata 6 , 

 De Haan*.) — [Compsolampra, Sss.f] 

 44. Femora anteriora in utroque margine spinosa. Elytra squamiformia. Corpus late 

 ellipticum, abdominis margines serrati. — [Opisthoplatia, Br.] 

 33. Lamina supra-analis prominula, trigonalis, incisa. Femora anteriora in utroque 

 margine spinosa. Corpus rugulosum; pronotum cucullatum. Abdomen valde 

 serratum. Elytra squamiformia vel nulla. — Rhicnoda, Br. 



PAEATEOPA, Serv. 



Paratropes, Serville, Orthopt. p. 117; Saussure, Miss. Scient. Mex., Orthopt. p. 73. 

 Phoraspis, Burmeister, Haridbuch, ii. p. 492. 

 Paratropa, Brunner de W. Syst. Blatt. p. 148. 



Synopsis specierum. 



a. Alse aurantise, fusco-marginatse. 



b. Pronotum anterius vitta flava, parallela vel in medio vix coarctata. — [subsericea, Sauss. 

 (Guiana)] ; [elegans, B. (Guiana)]. 

 bb. Pronotum anterius vitta fiava in medio valde coarctata vel interrupta. 

 c. Vitta haud interrupta. 



d. Pronoti margo posterior immaculatus. — 1. mexicana, Br. ; [cequatorialis, Sauss. 

 (Peru)]. 

 dd. Pronoti margo posterior flavo-bimaculatus. — [2. phalerata, Er.] 

 cc. Pronotum anterius flavo-bimaculatum. — 3. bilunata, sp. n. 

 aa. Alse totae fuscse. Pronotum ut in P.mexicana pictum. — 4. biolleyi, sp. n. 



l. Paratropa mexicana, Brunn. 



Paratropes lycus, var. ? , Sauss. Mem. Mex., Blatt. p. 60. 



Paratropa mexicana, Brunn. de W. Syst. Blatt. p. 151. 2, fig. 15 (?) ; Sauss. Miss. Scient. Mex., 

 Orthopt. p. 73. 2. 



Hab. Mexico, Eastern Cordillera, Orizaba (Mus. Genavense, ex coll. Guerin). 



[2. Paratropa phalerata, Erichs. 



Blatta (Nyctibora) phalerata, Erichson, in Schomb. Fauna und Flora v. Britisch-Guiana, p. 580 

 (1848). 



* Nee $ .—Epil. quadrata, Sauss. Mel. Orth. 4 e fasc. p. 129, $ S • 



f Sauss. Societas Entomologica, 1893, p. 58. Asiatic type mentioned here to fix the differences of Oalolampra. 



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