IlS ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'l/ 



Posidippus validus Saussure and Zehntner. 



1898. Posidippus validus Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., 

 Orth., I, p. 373, pi. XVIII, figs. 10 and 11. [Chontales, Nica- 

 ragua.] 



Panama. (Drs. G. W. and W. Nelson.) One male. [U. S. N. 

 M.] 



Hacienda Cincinnati, Santa Marta, Colombia, 4000 to 5000 

 feet elevation. VII, 1913. (M. A. Carriker, Jr.) One female. 

 [Hebard Cm.] 



These specimens are perfectly typical of validus, which is 

 readily separated by the characters given by Saussure and 

 Zehntner. The features of the stridulating field of the teg- 

 mina of the male we are unable to compare with citrifolius, as 

 the single available individual of that sex of validus has that 

 area broken. The present female is slightly under the original 

 measurements. 



The species is seen to range from Nicaragua to northern 

 Colombia. 



CNEMIDOPHYLLUM 15 new genus. 



1891. Posidippus Brunner, Verb. K.-k. Zool.-botan. Gesell. Wien XLI, 

 pp. 183, 184. (Part.) 



Genotype : Posidippus lincatits Brunner. 



Form compressed. Eyes ovato-globose in basal outline ; f as- 

 tigium of vertex narrow, compressed, produced, moderately 

 declivent, sulcate, rounded at apex ; fastigium of face cover- 

 ed by fastigium of vertex, very narrow. Pronotum with disk 

 concave ; cephalic margin non-dentate ; lateral margins mod- 

 erately elevated crasso-dentate ; disk expanding in width cau- 

 dad. Tegmina lanceolate ; sutural margin straight for the 

 greater portion of its length ; marginal field equal to two-fifths 

 of the total tegminal width ; stridulating field of male broad, 

 free margin sinuate, stridulating vein robust, elongate. Cephalic 

 femora with four spines on vcntro-cephalic margin ; cephalic 

 tibiae inflated proximad, foramina rimato-conchate on both 

 faces ; median tibiae greatly compressed and lamellate expand- 

 ed on proximal half, margins of expansion spined. Caudal 

 femora simple, ventral margins spined ; caudal tibiae greatly 



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