206 



St. viatoriii!^, Sauss., Rev. et Mag. Zool., XIII (1861), 317. 



Large, green (when dried, fuliginous), varied with fuscous ; body much 

 compressed, a green fascia above. Head narrow; vertex horizontal; a}3ex 

 furnished with a sub-cycloidal foveola ; lateral foveolse obliterated ; face de- 

 flexed, convex, and mottled ; no intermediate carinas ; costa strongly 

 arcuate, somewhat prominent above, but not below, convex, not sulcate even 

 at the ocellus. Disk of the pronotum fuscous ; posterior margin angulate ; 

 lateral carinae slender, indicated by a green fascia, before the middle angulate, 

 somewhat approximate, and then obsolete. Posterior femora much inflated 

 at the base. Elytra elongate, gray ; marked on the posterior margin with 

 green ; anterior margin near the base enlarged ; spotted or fasciate with 

 green or pellucid, the discal field marked with fuscous spots. Wings hyaline, 

 greenish; veins fuscous toward the apex, often clouded at the apex. Posterior 

 tibiae yellow; apex blue. Posterior femora bluish or yellowish internally, 

 trifasciate with fuscous. Antennae as long as the head and pronotum 

 together. 



Length of the body, 1.50 inches. 



Occurs in all Mexico, abundant in the fields, and injurious (Saussure). 



St. ^re^arius, Sauss., Rev. et Mag. Zool., XIII (1861), 318. 



Closely allied to St. viaiorius, but less ; body more compressed. Head 

 narrow, seen from the side trigonal or conical ; face much deflexed, scarcely 

 arcuate ; frontal costa very prominent, punctate, not channeled, narrow above, 

 obsolete below, but in the male reaches to the clypeus"; cheek-carinae distinct 

 throughout; vertex strongly produced in front of the eyes, narrow; apex 

 trigonal, foveolate ; lateral foveolse obsolete ; eyes large, elongate, sub-oblique, 

 acuminate above. Antennae filiform, flattened. Pronotum as in St. viatorius, 

 but narrower. Anterior femora less inflated. Externo-median vein of the 

 elytra reti-orse, sub-arcuate. Color as in St. viatorius. Tibiae red, blue at 

 the apex. Wings hyaline. 



Length, $ 1 inch. 9 1.25 inches. 



Islands of Saint Thomas and Hayti (Saussure). 



h. Rostrum of the vertex trigotial, angulate, distinctly foveolate: 



St. tepanecus, Sauss., Rev. et Mag. Zool., XIII (1861), 319. 



Rather small, testaceous ; two fuscous fascia on the sides. Head tri- 

 gonal; face much deflexed, not arcuate; an acute fronto-vertical girdle; facial 



