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Schistocerca flavofasciata (De Geer). 



A male specimen of this genus bearing the number 729 is 

 referred here. It is quite normal. 



Dichroplus punctulatus (Thunberg). 



This insect, the most widely distributed species of the genus 

 Dichroplus, is represented by a typical female specimen un- 

 der the number 714. 



Dichroplus bergi Stal. 



There are two specimens, a pair, of a locust belonging to 

 the genus Dichroplus at hand, that are referred to Stal's 

 D. bergi with some doubt. They come nearest to his variety b. 

 but are not quite typical. They are numbered 5 723, $ 726, 

 the former collected in January, the latter during December. 



Parascopas sanguinens n. sp. 



Very similar to Parascopas (Scopus} obcsus Giglio-Tos in size 

 and general appearance, but differing from that insect in being some- 

 what slender and in lacking the blood-red lower sulcus and inner face 

 of hind femora. The present species also differs from obcsus and 

 rhapadensis Rehn, in having the entire lower surface including the 

 meso- and metasternum together with the last ventral segment of the 

 male abdomen rich blood-red. The hind tibiae are also much deeper 

 blue-green than in the other two known species. The cerci of the pres- 

 ent species are similar to those of obesus but less abruptly bent upwards 

 than there. The supra-anal plate is largely pallid not at all sulcate at 

 middle, while the preceding segment has its marginal apophyses almost 

 entirely obliterated, being present only as very minute tooth-like pro- 

 jections. The tegmina slender elongate oval, their apices reaching 

 about to the middle of the second abdominal segment, their upper half 

 being light olive-green, and the lower portion piceous. 



Length of body, $ , 22 mm., of pronotum, 4.6, of tegmina, 3.5 mm., 

 of hind femora, 12 mm. 



Habitat. The single male specimen at hand, the type, comes 

 from Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay, where it was taken during 

 the month of January, by A. de Winkelried Bertoni. It is 

 numbered 712. 



This insect is to be recognized also by its very deeply sul- 

 cate fastigium and frontal costa and by the ferruginous an- 

 tennae that become strongly infuscated apically, while the 



