PEUCESTES. 371 



2. Peucestes latipennis, sp. n. (Tab. XVIII. fig. 2, $ .) 



2 . P. championi affinis. Verticis apex primo articulo antennarum fere duplo latior, leviter sulcatus. 

 Fastigium frontis oculis aequilatum, tuberculis parum prominulis, supra convergentibus. Pronotum supra 

 paulo longius quam latius, margiue antico toto subsinuato ; disci marginibus lateralibus parum arcuatis, 

 parum dilatatis, dentibus obtusis, brevibus, crenatis ; sulco postico parum impresso ; margine postico 

 arcuato. Elytra ampla, apice rotundata, parum elongata ; campo dorsali dextro dense reticulato, margine 

 interno membranaeeo venulis parum oblique instructis. Alae elytra in requiete superantes. Lobi 

 sternales acuti. Pedes sensim illis speciei laudatae conformes. Femora postica supra magis planata. 

 Tibiae intermediae margine supero prope basin dilatatae. Tibiae posticae quam femora parum breviores. 

 Lamina supra-analis appendicibus sat longis instructa. Ovipositor brevissimus; valvis superioribus 

 (externis) rectis, latiusculis, apice parabolico-rotundatis ; extus in medio ruga obliqua transversa notatis ; 

 inferis illis vix longioribus, apice membranaceis, oblique truncatis, apice superne acutangulis. Lamina 

 infra-genitalis apice fissa, incisura sat profunda, dentibusque 2 longioribus obtusis terminata. 



5 . Long. corp. 47 ; pronot. 14 ; elytr. 65, lat. 28, camp. marg. 13 ; femor. post. 37 ; ovipos. 8 millim. 



Figure : — Fig. 2, tbe female insect, natural size. 



Hab. Mexico (Mus. Genavense). — Colombia. 



3. Peucestes dentatus, Stai. (Tab. xvill. figg. 3-5.) 



Phaneroptera citrifolia, Blanch. Hist. nat. des Ins. iii. p. 24, t. 7 (1840) (nee Stoll). 

 Peucestes dentatus, Stal, Eecens. Orthopt. 2, p. 45 (1874) ; Brunn. v. W. Monogr. der Phaneropt. 

 p. 365. 1. 



$ . Prasinus. Apex verticis primo articulo antennarum duplo latius, sulcatus, apice subbituberculatus ; 

 fastigium frontis latum, rotundato-subbituberculatum, margine supero subinciso. Pronotum supra latum, 

 aeque latum ac longum ; margine antico leviter sinuato vel inter angulos subrecto, nonnunquam in medio 

 subproducto. Disci margines laterales subhorizontales leviter ascendentes, arcuati ; denticulis parum 

 longis, utrinque 15-20 acutis vel partim rotundatis crenati. Margo posterior leviter arcuatus, in medio 

 subproductus. Discus ubique rugosus, sulco postico profunde impresso. Elytra longissima, modice lata ; 

 margine costali basi valde, ultra medium modice, arcuato ; margine suturali longe leviter sinuato, basi 

 arcuato, itaque subsigmoidali, in parte terminali oblique truncato ; apice elytri propter hoc minute 

 rotundato-angulato. Campus discoidalis in tertia parte basali quam campus marginalis vix latior. Campus 

 dorsalis dexter late irregulariter reticulatus. Alee acuminata?, in quiete elytra parum superantes. Femora 

 subscrobiculata ; l a et 2 a subtus margine antico spinis 3 ; postica supra deplanata, subtus utrinque 

 remote spinosa. Tibiae anticae supra planatae ; foraminibus apertiusculis. Tibiae posticae femoribus 

 aequilongae, subtus rectae. Metasternum retro-coarctatum, lobis plus minus profunde divisis, acutiusculis 

 vel apice rotundatis. Lamina supra-analis appendicibus gracilibus, compressis, arcuatis, apice obtusis 

 instructa. Ovipositor gracilis, basi haud dilatatus. 



$. Long. corp. 48; pronot. 15; elytr. 80, lat. 25, camp. marg. 12; femor. post. 38; ovipos. 7 millim. 



Figures : — Fig. 3, tbe female insect. — Fig. 4, bead and pronotum of tbe male. — Fig. 5, ditto of tbe female. 



Hab. % Nokth Ameeica, Texas ( Mus. Genavense). — Panama, Chiriqui. 



Obs. — We possess a specimen, labelled Texas (?), which has each of the lateral borders 

 of the pronotum armed with twenty acute teeth, while the example from Chiriqui 

 has only fifteen teeth, these being wider and rounded; there is no other difference to 

 be found between them. 



4. Peucestes championi, sp. n. (Tab. xvill. figg. 6-9.) 



Prasinus. Apex verticis quam primus articulus antennarum vix latior, longe sulcatus. Fastigium frontis 

 oculis aequilatum, eodem modo quam vertex sulcatus, rotundato-bituberculatus, tuberculis siroeonver- 



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