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Type: Length of body, 10 mm.; length of pronotmn, 2.2; greatest 

 width of pronotum, 3; length of tegmen, 9.8; greatest width of teg- 

 men, 2.8. Allotype: Length of body, 10 mm.; length of pronotum, 

 2.3; greatest width of pronotmn, 3; length of tegmen, 9.2; greatest 

 width of tegmen, 2.5. 



The type and allotype are all the individuals of the species we have 



seen. 



Nyctiborinae. 

 Paratropes elegans (Burmeister). 



1838. Ph[oraspif;] elegans Burmeister, Handb. der Entom., II, abth. II, 

 pt. 1, p. 493. ["Unknown locality," probably Surinam.] 



Igarape-assu. One male, one female. 



This species has been recorded from Surinam (Saussure) and Pard., 

 Ega and Sao Paulo, Brazil (Walker), 



Epilamprinse. 

 Epilampra grisea (DeGeer). 



1773. Blatta grisea DeGeer, Mem. Hist. Ins., Ill, p. 540, pi. 44, fig. 9. [Suri- 

 nam.] 



1903. Epilampra lucifuga Rehn, Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, XXIX, p. 271. 

 [Southern British Guiana.] 



Igarape-assii. January 2 to 23, 1912. Ten males, five females. 



The acquisition of this series and the recent re-description of the 

 type of DeGeer's grisea by Shelford^^ enables us to place our lucifuga 

 as a synonym of this variable species. The material before us ex- 

 hibits two color forms, one similar to the type of lucifuga, the other 

 with the castaneous markings slightly larger and more thickly dis- 

 tributed. In all of the specimens the paired trigonal patches on the 

 pronotum are retained. In none of the specimens is the humeral 

 trunk marked by a solid line, this region having either a series of 

 blotches or almost no infuscation at all. 



Apparently this is the only exact Brazilian record of the species. 



Epilampra conspersa Burmeister. 



1838. E[pilampra] conspersa Burmeister, Handb. der Entom., II, abth. II, 

 pt. 1, p. 505. [ParA, Brazil.] 



Igarape-assii. One female. 



This individual agrees fully with the description given by Saussure 

 and Zehntner," although its identity with Burmeister 's species is not 

 so certain. The Burmeisterian description is very brief and is con- 

 sidered by Kirby to represent a form different from that studied by 

 Saussure and Zehntner. Personally we cannot express an opinion, 

 but prefer to use Burmeister's name for this handsome species until 

 the type of conspersa has been re-examined. 



16 Trans. Entom. Soc. London, 1907, p. 462. 

 1' Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, p. 64, (1893). 



