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The species is known only from Chile, from the province of 

 Coquimbo southward to Valdivia. The Andes undoubtedly 

 separate its distril:)ution from that of longipes. 



Specimens Examiticd: (5(); 22 males, 12 females, 10 immature males and 22 

 immature females. 



El Olivar, Colchagua, Chile, 1, 1»H)5, (C. 8. Reed), 19 d",! 9, 10 juv. cf, 

 22 juv. 9, [A. N. 8. P.]. 



Penco, Concepcion, Chile, II, 1904, (C. S. Reed), 1 9 , [A. X. S. P.]. 



Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, II, 10, 1904, (C. 8. Reed), 1 a", [A. X. 8. P.]. 



Hualqui, Concepcion, Chile, II, 25, 1904, (C. 8. Reed), 2 9 , [A. X. 8. P.]. 



Coronel, Concepcion, Chile, I, 1904, (C. S. Reed), 1 d", 1 9 , [A. X. 8. P.]. 



Lota, Concepcion, Chile, I, 1904, (C. S. Reed), 1 9, [A. X. 8. PJ. 



8ubgenus Xiphidion 8erville 

 1S31. Xiphidiim 8erville, Ann. 8ci. X"at., xxii, p. 159. 

 1912. XipltvlioH Karny, Cen. Ins., fasc. 135, Subfam. Conocephalinae, {). 8. 



Conocephalus cinereus Thunberg (PI. XXII, fig. 12; XXIII, 5 and 6.) 



1.S15. C[oiu)C(jjli.(tlu.s] cinereus Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Imp. 8ci. 8t. Pet.ers- 



bourg, V, ]). 273. [Jamaica.] 

 1S74. Orchelimnm ortnni 8cud(ler, Proc. Bost. 8oc. X'^at. Hist., wii, p. 265. 



[Peruvian IMaran )n.] 



Thunberg's description is very brief and unsatisfactory, but 

 recent collections made in Jamaica have enabled us to place this 

 species beyond question. 



Constant misconception of C/a.sc/a<;/.s' has, however, resulted 

 in the present insect being recorded as that species many times, 

 by Burmeister, Gundlach, Redtenbacher, Griffini, Saussure and 

 Pictet, Karn}', Morse and Rehn, while semi-brachypterous indi- 

 viduals from Cuba have been recorded as hrevipennis by Bolivar 

 and Gundlach, and from Cuba, Jamaica and the Bahamas by 

 Rehn. To these mistakes have been added misidentifications 

 as snltator by Redtenbacher, Brunner and Saussure and Pictet 

 and as fasciatum variety saltator by Griffini. All of these difficul- 

 ties were due to the then universally supposed importance of teg- 

 minal length and complete disregard of the not as readily observed 

 male genitalic characters, the form of the lateral lobes of the 

 pronotum and the color pattern in both sexes. 



Examination of the type of Scudder's Orchelimum ortoni proves 

 that it is an absolute synonym of the present species, based upon 

 a unique dried-alcoholic female in the macropterous condition. 



The present insect is related to C. fasciatus, differing from that 



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