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Phylloptera phyllopteroides (Brimner). 



187S. Plaruhli'ta] phyllopteroides Bruaner, Monogr. der Phaneropt., p. 254. 

 [Brazil.] 



Goyaz, State of Goyaz. One male, two females. [Hebard Cln.] 



This is apparently the first record of the species with exact data. 



Phylloptera tenella new species. (Plate XI, figs. 26, 27 and 28.) 



A close relative of P. alliedea Caudell, from Paraguay," and P. 

 cognata Rehn, described below, but particularly close in its relation- 

 ship to the former. ■ From alliedea the present species differs in its 

 considerably smaller size, more robust proximal portion of the cau- 

 dal femora and the more bent, shorter and blunter ovipositor. The 

 form of the latter strongly approaches that of the ovipositor of P. 

 cognata, but in proportions it would hold an intermediate position, 

 as the apex is more acute and the disto-dorsal section of the margin 

 is by no means as coarsely spined as in cognata. 



Type. — 9; Corumba, State of Matto Grosso, Brazil. March. 

 (H. H. Smith; highland.) [United States National Museum.] 



Size medium: form compressed. Head with the fastigium narrow, 

 acuminate, sulcate, moderately declivent, hardly in contact with 

 the .fastigium of the face, the latter moderately acuminate: palpi 

 elongate, slender, the distal joint arcuate: eyes not prominent, 

 faintly compressed, slightly projecting cephalad, in basal outline 

 slightly ovate. Pronotum with the disk deplanate, relatively broad, 

 the greatest caudal width contained one and one-fifth times in the 

 greatest length of the same; cephalic margin of the disk concave 

 with a faint angulate tendency, caudal margin of the disk strongly 

 arcuate; surface of the disk with a distinct but narrow medio-longi- 

 tudinal sulcus, a median figure forming wdth the sulcus the letter ^'; 

 lateral angles distinct, rectangulate, subcarinate: lateral lobes 

 slightly deeper than long; cephalic margin of the lobes weakly con- 

 cave, ventro-cephalic angle moderately rounded, ventral margin 



from the "Eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes." Brunner, in 1878 (Monogr. 

 der Phaneropt., p. 314), suggested the possibility of the species being the same 

 as his there described P. serva, while, in 1896, Scudder (Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., XXVII, p. 213) stated it appeared to be a Homotoicha. Kirby in 

 his catalogue (Synon. Catal. Orth., II, p. 4.50, (1906)), placed tripunctata in Para- 

 scudderia. As a matter of fact the species is a Phylloptera, rather aberrant in 

 certain features it is true, but it is the same as either P. nigro-nuricvlata or hrevi~ 

 lamulosa Brunner (Verhand. k.-k. Zool.-botan. Gesell. Wien, XLI, p. 162, (1891 )), 

 from the Upper Amazons. It agrees in structure and coloration vevy fidly with 

 breviramidosa, but in addition has the tegminal margins and cephalic tibiae 

 colored as in nigro-annulata. The safer course appears to us to be the synonym- 

 izing of breriramulosa under tripunctata. The type is in bad condition, having 

 been dried from alcohol. 

 « Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, p. 238, (1906). 



