276 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [May-Oct., 



PSEUDOPHYLLINAE. 



Meroncidius flavolimbatus Brunner. 



1895. Meroncidius flavolimbatus Brunner, Monogr. der Pseudophyll., p. 

 150. [Paraguay; State of Espirito Santo, Brazil.] 



Bonito, State of Pernambuco. January 11, 1883. (A. Koebele; 

 on Agave sp.). One female. [U. S. N. M.] 



This specimen fully agrees with the original description of the 

 species, which can be distinguished from marcjinatus Walker by its 

 smaller size, its relatively straighter cephalic femora, its slightly 

 more compressed pronotum, which has the marginal color contrast 

 moderately decided, and its less produced lateral angles of the meso- 

 and metasternum. The present species has the same type of mottled 

 light and dark coloration of the sutural margin of the tegmina found 

 in marginatus, but as the general color is darker the pale areas are 

 reduced in size and less conspicuous. At first glance flavolimbatus 

 might be taken for a small specimen of marginatus, but the struc- 

 tural differences appear to be sufficiently marked to distinguish the 

 two. 



Meroncidius marginatus Walker. 



]870. Meroncidius marginatus Walker, Catal. Spec. Derm. Salt. Brit. 

 Mus., Ill, p. 450. [Para, Brazil.] 



Bonito, State of Pernambuco. January 11, 1883. (A. Koebele; 

 on Agave sp.) One male, two females. [U. S. N. M.] 



These specimens agree with Walker's description of the species, 

 which is close to ochraceus of Stoll. The older species, however, 

 as understood by Brunner, has unicolorous antennae, the ovipositor 

 without distal rugae, very much greater general size and a distinctly 

 longer, although no deeper, ovipositor. 



Anchiptolis chapadensis Brvmer. 



1915. Anchiptolis chapadensis Bruner, Ann. Carneg. Mus., IX, p. 355. 

 [Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil.] 



Chapada, State of Matto Grosso. June and September. (H. H. 

 Smith.) Two males, three females. [U. S. N. IVl.] 



These specimens fully agree with the original description, which 

 was based on a single female. Several features of the male sex are 

 worthy of comment. The stridulating field of the male tegmina 

 occupies about one-fourth of the sutural section of the tegmina. 

 The two disto -dorsal abdominal segments are shining black, as in 

 the female sex. Supra-anal plate rather short, trigonal in form, 

 with the distal angle produced into an acute process; cerci short, 

 incrassate, faintly inliowed, the apex recurved with a straight tooth, 



