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club, which is as long as the scape but much stouter ; the pedicel is 

 obconical, longer than thick at apex ; the basal three or four joints of the 

 funicle are very small, not longer than thick, the others to the club being 

 larger, longer than thick. The abdomen, in outline, is broadly oval, ses- 

 sile and a little depressed. 



Type. No. 8,393, U. S. N. M. 

 Taken by Prof. L,. Berg in 1901. 



Genus POLYNEMA Haliday. 



Polynema bergi n. sp. 9. Length about o 6 mm. Head, thorax and 

 abdomen uniformly brownish-yellow, smooth and shining, the antennae 

 and legs pale yellowish, the wings hyaline, the margins fringed with long 

 hairs. 



The head is transverse quadrate, as wide as the thorax, the mouth 

 parts pale yellowish ; the antennae are long, g-jointed, the scape rather 

 long, the flagellum clavate, the last joint enlarged almost egg-shaped and 

 forming an unjointed club, the penultimate joint small but a little stouter 

 than the preceding joints which are cylindrical. 



Type. No. 8,394, U. S. N. M. 

 Taken by Prof. L. Berg in 1901. 



Two New South American Grasshoppers. 



BY LAWRENCE BRUNER, Lincoln, Nebr. 

 Some time ago I received a small collection of Orthoptera 

 from Sapucay, Paraguay. In studying them it was found that 

 perhaps as many as a dozen of the species are new to science. 

 Although it is quite desirable that these should have been de- 

 scribed before now, my time has been too thoroughly occupied to 

 do this. Since it has been necessary for Mr. Rehn to refer to 

 two of them, these are briefly described herewith. It is to be 

 hoped that the remainder may be likewise described before 

 long. 



Plectrotettix varipes n. sp. 



In structure very similar to /'. pictus Bruner, and /'. bruiineri Giglio- 

 Tos, but differing decidedly from both of these in its general appearance 

 and coloration. In size smaller than pictus which it approaches in struc- 

 ture. The hind femora moderately robust, as long as (?) or consider- 

 ably surpassing ( , ) the abdomen. Tibiae 10 to 12 spined. 



General color of insect rather dark cinereo-testaceous, inclining to wood- 

 brown about the head and thorax as indicated by the material at hand, 



