l-"^'^ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Orphulella tepaneca. 



Stenobothrns ( RJiammatoceriis) tepanecus Sauss., Rev. Mag. Zool., 

 iS6i, 319 (1S61). 



Stetiobothnis tepanecus Walk., Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mas., IV., 

 756 (1870). 



Specimens in my collection come from Corpus Christi Bay, Tex., 

 Dec, Palmer; Mexico, Sumichrast, Botteri ; Venis Mecas, Mex., 

 Palmer ; San Mateo del Mar, Tehuantepec, Sumichrast ; Guatemala, 

 Van Patten ; and Realejo, Nicaragua, McNeil. 



The species described by McNeill under the name Orphiila 

 tepanica, and doubtfully referred by him to Saussure's species, belongs, I 

 think, to another species which I have here named O^-phulella affinis. 



Orphulella compta, sp. nov. 

 Green or dead-leaf brown, frequently with a broad dusky occipital 

 stripe on the head, and always with a postocular fuscous stripe, more or 

 less conspicuous, generally rather broad, straight, and cut by the lateral 

 carina? of the metazona. Head generally more or less flavous on the 

 face, of medium size, the face considerably oblique ; fastigium consider- 

 ably depressed behind the raised margins, which are rectangulate (?) or 

 a little acutangulate ( (^ ), with rounded apex, advanced in front of the 

 eyes by less than the width between the eyes ; frontal costa not very 

 prominent, rather narrow, plane or faintly sulcate and sparsely punctate, 

 percurrent or almost percurrent, and slightly enlarged below ; lateral 

 foveolas faint, linear, brief; eyes moderately large, subovate ; antenna? as 

 long as ( cJ ) or slightly shorter than ( $ ) the head and pronotum 

 together, luteo-testaceous, the post-basal joints depressed but not 

 broadened. Pronotum rather short, obtusely angulate behind, the pro- 

 zona distinctly longer than the metazona, the lateral carinee almost 

 parallel on the prozona, considerably divergent on the metazona, luteous 

 and noticeably dividing the postocular fuscous stripe. Tegmina gener- 

 ally slightly surpassing the hind femora, the discoidal area of basal half 

 narrowed distally, more or less irregularly reticulate, but with no 

 spurious vein ; ulnar area without {$) ox with (?) a spurious vein ; 

 median area often flecked or more or less clouded with fuscous. Hind 

 femora considerably surpassing the abdomen, moderately slender, green 

 or testaceous. 



