1920.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 239 



Damasippus pulcher Redtenbacher. * 



1906. D[omasippus] pulcher Redtenbacher, Die Insektenfam. Phasm., I, 

 p. 148. [Espirito .Santo, Brazil.] 



Espirito Santo. One female. [Hebard Cln.] 



This specimen has the greenish-yellow on the head less clearly 

 defined than the original description would lead one to suppose it 

 is in the type, which was also a female. The caudal femora are 

 also more clear greenish than " flavo-ferruginous " as described. In 

 all the other features, however, the present individual is typical. 



Prisopus horstokkii De Haan. 



1842. P[has)na] (Prisopus) horstokkii De Haan, Verhandl. Natuurl. Ges- 

 chied., Bijdrasen Kenn. Orth., p. 113, pi. XII, fig. 1. ["Cape of Good 

 Hope" (erroneous).] 



Rio Verde, State of Goyaz. One female. [Hebard Cln.] 

 Gahan's recently described P. fisherp* is supposed to differ from 

 horstokkii in the presence of triangular processes on the lateral sec- 

 tions of the metathorax, but our material, which fully agrees with 

 the description and figure of horstokkii, possesses the same structures, 

 yet differs from the description of fisheri in other features, as the 

 color of the ventral surface of the body and of the membranous sec- 

 tion of the wings. It is evident that either horstokkii possesses such 

 appendages on the metathorax or the coloration given for certain 

 areas, which are as a rule of fairly fixed character, varies in fisheri. 

 We feel that the first explanation is more likely the correct one, in 

 which conclusion we are strengthened by an examination of other 

 inaterial of the genus. The metathoracic processes are hidden from 

 above in spread specimens and this may explain their oversight by 

 previous workers. 



This is the first Brazihan record of the species. 



HETERONEMINAE. 

 Dyme straminea new species. (Plate X, flgs. 10 and 11.) 



This remarkably elongate and attenuate species can be distin- 

 guished by the excessively elongate and straw-like limbs, the slen- 

 derness of the body and the distinct medio-longitudinal fuscous line, 

 which reaches from the inter-antennal region to the proximal por- 

 tion of the abdomen, where it becomes obsolete. Of the species 

 treated by Brunner the only one to which it appears at all allied is 

 D. incoliimis, from Vera Paz, Guatemala, and from the description 

 of which it differs in the male (the only sex in hand) having the ventro- 

 lateral margin of the penultimate (eighth) dorsal abdominal segment 



24 The EntomoL, XLV, p. .54, fig., (1912). 



