52 ORTHOPTEROUS GROUP INSARAE 



7. clegans excepting color pattern. Tegmina conspicuously 

 marked with a series of large spots, white or pale greenish in 

 color.) covilleae new species 



Insara tolteca (Saussure) (Figs. 3 and 4.) 



1S59. Phaneroptera tolteca Saussure, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 2e Ser., XI, p. 



201. [Mexico.] 

 1869. Insara strigulata Walker, Cat. Dermap. Saltat. Br. Mus., II, p. 268. 



[Oajaca, Mexico; Orizaba, Mexico.] 

 1874. H[ormilia] tolteca St§,l, Recens. Orth., II, p. 28. [Mexico.] 

 1878. H[ormilia] tolteca Brunner, Monogr. Phaner., pp. 231, 232. [Mexico.] 

 1897. Hormilia tolteca Saussure and Pictet, Biol. Cent-Amer., Orth., I, 



pp. 318, 319, pi. 15, figs. 10-13. (In part.) [Mexico; Cordova, 



Mexico; Atoyac, Vera Cruz, Mexico; Orizaba, Mexico; Teapa, 



Tabasco, Mexico; Las Mercedes, Guatemala; Torola, Guatemala; 



San Jose, Costa Rica.] 

 1900. H[onnilia] tolteca Biolley, Inf. Mus. Nat. Costa Rica, 1899-1900. p. 51. 



[San Jose, Costa Rica.] 



The present species is closely related to /. intermedia and I. 

 holivari, though the lateral carinae of the dorsum of the pronotum 

 are distinctive. From the former species it may be further dis- 

 tinguished by its greater size, usually longer tegmina and wings, 

 less constricted dorsum of the pronotum and somewhat shallower 

 lateral lobes of the same. From holivari it may be also separated 

 by its much less constricted dorsum of the pronotum and consider- 

 ably shallower lateral lobes of the same. In the slight degree of 

 constriction of the dorsum of the pronotum the present species 

 rather resembles /. gracillima. The superficial resemblance of 

 this species to the longer winged individuals of intermedia and to 

 holivari is striking, and both /. phthisica and /. gracillima have 

 also a superficially similar appearance, though these latter species 

 are much more slender. 



Tijpe. — 9 ; IMexico. [Presumably in Geneva Museum.] 

 The following description is based upon a specimen identified 

 and recorded as tolteca by Saussure and now in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Description. — cf ; Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico. March. (H. H. Smith.) 

 Size medium for the genus, form rather slender. Head with greatest 

 width contained about one and three-quarters times in the depth, occiput 

 rounded, slightly dcclivent toward the fastigium, the latter narrow, com- 



