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c. Pronoti lobi laterales altiores quam latiores, margine antico sinuato. — Elytra femora 

 postica duplo superantia. — 1. ovalifolia, Burm, 

 cc. Pronoti lobi laterales subseque alti ac lati, margine antico subrecto. Prons valde com- 

 pressa. 

 d. Elytra ante medium inter venam mediam et ulnarem macula albida, purpureo-circum- 

 data. Femora postica quam pronotum triplo longiora. — 2. pisifolia, Sss. 

 dd. Elytra immaculata. Femora postica pronoto haud triplo longiora. — 3. festee, Griff. 

 bb. Frons perpendicularis, rotundata, a latere vix compressa. — Femora antica subtus mutica. — 

 4. dimidiata, Bruim. 

 aa. Tibise anticse supra subsulcatae. — Pronotum disco pone medium fusco-purpureo, nigro-limbato. 

 b. Elytra maculis 5 albis purpureo-circumdatis. — [maculosa, Burm. (Bahia).] 

 bb. Elytra maculis nullis. — 5. finoti, Griff. 



1. Phylloptera ovalifolia, Burm. 



Phylloptera ovalifolia, Burm. Handb. d. Ent. ii. p. 693 (1838); Bolivar, Viaje alPacifico, Orthopt. 



p. 56 (1884) ; Brunn. v. W. Monogr. der Phaneropt. p. 311. 4, t. 6. fig. 89. 

 Phylloptera punctum-album, Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Orthopt. p. 407 ; StSJ, Recens. Orthopt. 2, 



p. 33. 

 Phylloptera viridicata, Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orthopt. p. 407. 

 ? Phaneroptera oblongi folia, Blanch. d'Orbigny, Voy. dans l'Amer. merid., Ins. p. 216, t. 27. fig. 1 



(1843). 



Hdb. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). — Ecuadok ; Bkazil, Theresopolis, 

 Santa Catherina. 



A common species in Brazil, extending northwards to Southern Mexico. The 

 specimens from this country are entirely green, sometimes with spots on the elytra. 

 It is only in dried examples that the neuration is whitish or yellow. 



2. Phylloptera pisifolia, Sauss. (Tab. XVI. figg. 25-27, 6 .) 



Phylloptera pisifolia, Sauss. Eev. et Mag. Zool. xi. p. 202 (<S) (1859) ; Brunn. v. W. Monogr. der 



Phaneropt. p. 311. 5. 



Figures. — Fig. 25, the male insect, in profile ; 26, ditto, in part, from above, magnified ; 26 a, ditto, natural 

 size ; 27, front view of the head of the male. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Saussure). 



3. Phylloptera festae, Griff. 



Phylloptera festa, Griflini, Bollet. dei Mus. di Zool. di Torino, xi. no. 232, p. 2 (1896). 



3. Viridi-fiavescens ; opaca. Caput compressum; frons utrinque carinata, apice retro-curvato. Verticis 

 rostrum acuminatum. Pronotum canthis rotundatis ; lobis lateralibus vix altioribus quam longioribus ; 

 margine antico superne sinuato ; margine infero anterius subsiauato. Elytra in medio latiora ; vena 

 media in medio oriente, in tertia parte basali furcata ; lineis vittseformibus a punctulis minutis fuscis 

 confectis, obsoletissimis notatae. Femora postica subtus 6 : 12-spinulosa. Tibiae anticae supra inermes, 



