1913.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, 299 



Tucuman, Province of Tucuman. July, 1911. "Very common." 

 One male. 



This form has been recorded from San Lorenzo, Jujuy (Giglio-Tos) 

 and Cordoba, Argentina (as the synonymous luna), as well as north- 

 ward as far as Guiana. 



Stagmatoptera precaria (LinnEeus). 



1758. [Gryllus (Ma7itis)] precarius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Xth ed., I, p. 426. 

 ["America; Africa."] 



Mision€s. April 18, 1909. One male. 



Previous Argentine records of this species are from Tucuman and 

 Catamarca (Burmeister) and Buenos Aires (Serville). Burmeister 

 stated that he had not taken the species south of Rosario. The 

 same author notes that the individuals from the provinces (i.e., 

 Tucuman and Catamarca) average two to two and one-half inches 

 in length, while tropical Brazilian individuals are three to three and 

 one-half in length. The present specimen shows the following 

 measurements: length of body, 72 mm.; length of pronotum, 24; 

 greatest width of pronotum 5 ; length of tegmen, 53 ; greatest width 

 of tegmen, 14.5; width of marginal field, 4; length of cephalic 

 femur, 16. 



Zoolea lobipes (Olivier). 



1792. Mantis lobipes Olivier, Encycl. Meth., Ins., VII, p. 637. ["Tran- 

 quebar; coast of Coromandel."] 



Misiones. December, 1908. One male. 



This genus and species was previously known from Argentina only 

 by a single record from San Lorenzo, Jujuy (Giglio-Tos). The 

 published records show the range to extend from the Guianas west 

 to Peru and south to the northern edge of the Argentine Republic. 



*PhyllovateS iheringi (Saussure and Zehntner). 



1894. Theodytes iheringi Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., 

 I, p. 193. [Rio Grande do Sul, BrazU.] 



Misiones. November 24, 1909; November, 1910. (No. 8.) 

 Two females. 



This species was previously known only from the original reference. 

 Giglio-Tos^^ has recorded the allied P. paraUela, under the synonymic 

 name Theodytes surinamensis, from Buenos Aires. 



^'Boll. Mus. Zool. Atiat. Comp. Torino, IX, No. 184, p. 4. 



