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A paratypic female (Bertoni, No. 704) has also been examined, the 

 measurements for it being given above. It differs from the type in 

 the characters usual in that sex of species of this genus, viz. : The 

 smaller size, the great suppression of the pronotal "horseshoe" pat- 

 tern and the absence of the marked lamellato-elevate character of the 

 cephalic pronotal margin. The supra-anal plate is perfect in this speci- 

 men and transverse arcuate in form with the faintest possible median 

 emargination. 



Dasyposoma nigra Brunner. 



Puerto Bertoni. 1905. One female. (Bertoni, No. 421). 



This specimen is somewhat smaller than Brunner's measure- 

 ments (type from Brazil), but otherwise the Puerto Bertoni in- 

 dividual does not appear separable. 



MANTIDAE. 

 Acanthops sinuata (Stoll). 



Puerto Bertoni. One male. (Schrottky, No. 3). 



Puerto Bertoni. 1909. One male. (Bertoni, No. 398). 



This species has been recorded from Sapucay, Paraguay, and 

 Paraguay without further locality. 



ACRIDIDAE. 

 Apotettix bruneri Hancock. 

 Puerto Bertoni. One female. (Schrottky). 

 This is the first record of the species with exact locality. 



Sisantum gracilicornis (Bruner). 



1910. Orphula gracilicornis Bruner , ENT. NEWS, XXI, p. 301, 

 [Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay.] 



Puerto Bertoni. One female. January 18, 1910. (Schrott- 

 ky, No. 2). 



Puerto Bertoni. One female. No date. (Schrottky). 



When compared with a paratype of Sisantum notochloris, the 

 type of the genus Sisantum, and specimens of Orphula pagana, 

 the type of the genus Orphula, we cannot agree with the origi- 

 nal author in his generic assignment of this species. While it 

 is true that the apex of the tegmina is narrowly oblique trun- 

 cate, it is by no means the obliquely truncate apex of O. pagana, 



