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tarsal joint brown. This tarsus being thus colored, 4th and 5th joints 

 and all of 1st joint except tip brown; 2nd and 3rd and tip of ist 

 yellow. 



Type. No. 12,108, U. S. N. M. 



Described from three female specimens reared by George 

 Compere from Lepidosaphes beckii, China. The specific name 

 is given in honor of Mr. Edward K. Carnes who has charge 

 of the admirable insectary of the California State Board of 

 Horticulture at Sacramento, Cal. 



The Genus Trybliophorus Serville, and its Species. 



BY LAWRENCE BRUNER. 



Trybliophorus Serville, Rev. Meth. Orthopt., p. 83 (i83i) ; Ib., Hist. 



Nat, Orthopt., p. 631 (1839); Stal, Syst. Acrid., p. 43 (1878); 



Brunner, Rev. Syst. Orthopt., p. 136 (1893); Giglio-Tos, Boll. 



Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, XIII, No. 311, p. 43 (1898). 

 Stegastris Gerstaecker, Bemerkens, Orthopt., p. 63 (1888) ; Brunner, 



Rev. Syst. Orthopt., p. 136, foot note (1893). 



This genus is characterized chiefly by having the disk of the 

 hind lobe of the pronotum flattened and extended in the form 

 of a triangle backwards so as to reach the front edge of the 

 first abdominal segment. The apical joint of the maxillary 

 palpi is ampliate and much flattened, while the antennae are 

 very heavy and elongate. 



Recently while studying a small collection of locusts from 

 Peru, South America, that had been submitted to the writer for 

 determination, a single female specimen of the genus Tryblio- 

 phorus was encountered among other interesting forms. An 

 examination of this insect showed it to be an undescribed spe- 

 cies. It was accordingly named T. peruviana, and a description 

 of it drawn up and sent, along with others, to Prof. Nicholas 

 Iconnicoff, of the University of Moscow, for publication. In 

 the meantime Mr. James A. G. Rehn, of Philadelphia, has sub- 

 mitted to me for examination and description, if I so desired, 

 another specimen of the same genus. The latter insect, also a 

 female, comes from Surinam or Dutch Guinea. 



An examination of the several descriptions heretofore pub- 



