HANCOCK 127 



Allotettix, Hancock, Ent. News, 276, X., Dec. (1899); 

 Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth.. ii.. 12 1 1900). 



ALLOTETTIX PERUVLANUS, BOL. 



Plate IX., Fig. 5. 



Obscure ferrugineous, fusco variegated. Vertex nearly as 

 wide as one of the eyes, horizontal, towards the front subnar- 

 rowed, scarcely transversely carinate anteriorly. Frontal costa 

 between the antennje obliquely depressed, obscurely sinuate. 

 Pronotum posteriorly long subulate, median carina between 

 the shoulders sinuate, here being indicated b}- scarcely com- 

 pressed tubercles; dorsum tuberculate, between the shoulders 

 presenting" concavities; posterior angle of the lateral lobes 

 with apex widely rounded. Ehtra oblong, subacuniinate; 

 wings as long as the process. Femora slender, carina entire, 

 first article of the posterior tarsi not longer than the third; the 

 first and second pulvilli together shorter than the third, the 

 basal pulvilli have acute short spines. 



Length of body, ,/ j, 9-13.5 mm.; pronot, 13. 5-14 mm.; 

 post, fem., 5.5-7 mm. 



Paratettix peruvianus, Bolivar, Am. Soc. Ent. Belg. XXX., 

 272 (1887); Gigiio-Tos Bull., Mus. Zool. Univ. Tor., xii., 

 No. 301, 3 (1897); Morse, Biol. Cent. Amer. Orth., ii., 12 

 (1900); Scudd., Index N. Am. Orth., 241 (19011; Allotettix 

 peruvianus, Hancock, Ent. News, 276, X., Dec. (1899). 



Locality, Pumamarco, Peru, Mus. de Varsovia (Bolivar); 

 Peru (Hancock); Panama, Colon, Rio Cianoti Punta di 

 Sabana, Darien, Peru (Morse); Darien (Giglio-Tos). 



GEN. TELMATETTIX, hanx. 



Body more or less slender, granulate, or rugose. Vertex 

 narrowed anteriorly, the width equal to from about one-half 

 to nearly the whole of one of the eyes, middle carinate, pro- 

 jecting very feebly, on either side of median carina narrowly 

 longitudinally canaliculate, crown strongly longer than the 

 width; front border of vertex subsinuato-truncate or truncate. 



