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Phyllophora lanceolate Brunner. 



1898. Ph[yllophora] lanceolata Brunner, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. 

 Ges., XXIV, p. 263, pi. XIX, fig. 49. [d\ 9 : Halmahera, [Gilolo Island, 

 Celebes]; Amboina [Island, Celebes]; Stephansort, New Guinea; New 

 Britain and Duke of York Islands, [Bismarck Archipelago].] 



Obi Island, Moluccas, 1 9 . 



Length of body 45.5, length of pronotum 28.7, greatest width 

 of pronotum (including marginal spines) 16.8; length of largest 

 pronotal marginal spine .8, length of mesonotum 23, length of 

 tegmen 63.3, greatest width of tegmen 26.4, length of caudal femur 

 30.8, length of ovipositor 24.9 mm. 



Sasima truncata (Brunner) 



1898. Ph[yllophora] truncata Brunner, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 

 XXIV, p. 262, pi. XIX, fig. 48. [ 9 , Key Island.] 



New Guinea, 1 d\ [A. N. S. P.]. 



Length of body 35, length of pronotum 23.3, greatest width of 

 pronotum (including marginal spines) 12.2, length of largest pro- 

 notal marginal spine 2.3, length of mesonotum 17.3, length of 

 tegmen 67, greatest width of tegmen 29.7, length of caudal femur 



34 mm. 



PSEUDOPHYLLINAE 



In the literature on this subfamily several unusual difficulties 

 are encountered which we think should be pointed out, to aid the 

 student in avoiding further confusion. 



Brunner's key, in his Monograph, is particularly unsatisfactory 

 in one portion. Sections 4 and 4' under section 3' are exceedingly 

 misleading and species running to this point should always be 

 tried for both. 



The attem )t by Saussure and Pictet, in their "Iconographie des 

 Sauterelles Vertes," to use data written them by Redtenbacher, has 

 caused a most unfortunate confusion of generic names. That 

 study was published in 1892 and Brunner, publishing the "Mono- 

 graphic der Pseudophylliden" in 1895, most unfortunately did 

 not follow the generic assignments there made. Added to this 

 are the older genera described by Walker and ignored by sub- 

 sequent authors, which Kirby at last placed in his "Synonymic 

 Catalogue of Orthoptera," Vol. Ill, in 1906. 



Thus we find Microprion P. and S. a synonym of Phyllomimus 

 Stal, but Microprion Brunner a distinct genus, renamed Micropion 

 by Kirby. Oxyscelus Brunner a synonym of Tympanoptera P. and 

 S., but Tympanoptera Brunner a synonym of Aprion Serville, and 

 Aprion P. and S. a synonym of Morsimus Stal. We, however, 



