I2O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '17 



Costa Rica. (C. F. Underwood.) One male. [Hebard Cln.] 

 This specimen fits the description of degeerii more closely 

 than it does that of the allied rarospinulosus, but the acquisi- 

 tion of Guianan material may show it to be different. Unfor- 

 tunately at this writing no topotypic material is available. 

 This is the first Central American record of a species of this 



genus. 



STEIRODONOPIS Scudder. 



1875. Steirodonopis Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII, 

 P- 259. 



Genotype : Steirodonopis bilobata Scudder. 



An examination of the unique type of Scudder's species en- 

 ables us to associate his genus, which was ignored by some Eu- 

 ropean students of this group. Quite evidently his work was 

 done well within the year 1874, as the paper containing it was 

 presented for publication December i6th, of that year. How- 

 ever, the date of actual publication of Scudder's genus is 

 March, 1875. 



From Frontinus the present genus can be very easily distin^ 

 guished by the frontal fastigium being twice as wide as the 

 fastigium of the vertex, the former projecting cephalad of 

 the latter, while the stridulating field of the male tegmina is 

 narrow, with the stridulating vein weak, nearly straight and 

 oblique. In addition to bilobata, the genus contains brunnen 

 Bolivar, which, however, may be identical with Scudder's spe- 

 cies. 



Steirodonopis bilobata (Scudder). Plate X, fig. 10. 



1875. Steirodonopis bilobala Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



XVII, p. 260. [Peruvian Maranon.] 

 1878. P[osidippus] fastigiosus Brunner, Monogr. der Phaneropt, p. 



37- [Quito, Ecuador.] 16 

 1915. Stcirodonopsis (sic) scuddcri Bruner, Ann. Carneg. Mus., IX, 



P- 3 1 ?- [Province of Sara, Bolivia.] 



1U Doubtless Quito was the point from which the specimen was re- 

 ceived, although there is no doubt in our minds but that, along with 

 birds and other natural objects, it was brought to Quito from the east- 

 ern part (Oriente) of Ecuador, or an adjacent portion of Peru or 

 Colombia. Bogota, Colombia, served for many years as such a dis- 

 tributing point for bird skins, as is well known to students of South 

 American birds. Our opinion as to the true original locality of the 

 typical material is re-enforced by Brunner's latest reference to material 

 of the species from the upper Amazons. 



