Feb., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 37 



Records of some Paraguayan Orthoptera with the 

 Description of a New Genus and Species. 



I5y JAMKS A. G. REHN. 



The following records have been made from a small collec- 

 tion of Orthoptera taken at Sapucay, Paraguay. The mate- 

 rial is the property of Mr. Morgan Hebard of Chestnut Hill, 

 Philadelphia. 



Family 



Ischnoptera marginata Brunner. 



One female (December 20, 1901). 



Giglio-Tos has recorded this species from northern Argen- 

 tina and the Bolivian Chaco. 



Ischnoptera vilis Saussure. 



Two males (one November 30, igoi). 



Family 

 Brunneria brasiliensis Saussure. 



One male. 



Family ACRIDIIXK. 



Ossa bimaculata Giglio-Tos. 



One male and one female. October 31, 1902 and January 



27, 1903. 



This species was described from Resistencia nel Chaco, 

 Argentina. 



Tropinotus discoideus Serville. 



Two females. 



These specimens agree with a female individual from Para- 

 guay referred to discoidi'ns by Giglio-Tos, and a male and 

 female from Brax.il and Rio Grande do Sul received from Dr. 

 Saussure. One of the Sapucay specimens is blackish brown 

 in color with the maculations rather faint, the other is wood 

 brown, the anal area of the tegmina pale, the maculations of 

 the tegmina barely visible. Originally described from " Bresil," 

 this speeie^ lias >inre been recorded from Hueiios Ay res and 

 the province of Jujuy, Argentina, Cai/a in the Cham of 

 Bolivia and Asuncion, Paraguay. 



