164 GENUS CARIBLATTA (oRTHOPTERA) 



ptindulala) ; between these specialized styles the brief median portion of the 

 plate is somewhat inset, but produced mesad in a very narrow cyhndrical pro- 

 jection about three times as long as broad.^^ Face markings distinctive. 



Allotype. — 9 ; same data as type. [American Museum of 

 Natural History.] 



Description of Allotype. — Similar to type except in the following features. 

 Supra-anal plate very small, strongly transverse, weakly produced, with distal 

 margin broadly convex, showing scarcely any mesal emargination. Subgenital 

 plate large, scoop-shaped, free margin proximo-laterad weakly convex, then 

 even more weakly concave at base of cercus, thence as weakly convex to the 

 produced apex, which is broadly rounded but sUghtly pinched due to the con- 

 tour of the plate. 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



Mayaguez, "sl •- .^| ^| ^^ 



Porto Rico. II ^^ 5§ °° ^1 °| 



bC ^ 



c^ r r I" I" J- ^- 



Type 8.9 2 2.7 8.9 2.4 



Paratypes (2) 8.5-8.7 2 2.7 8.8-9.2 2.4-2.5 



9 



Allotype 8.4 2 2.9 8.9 2.8 



Paratype 8.9 2 2.8 9 2.6 



The present very small series is constant in size, approximating 

 the specimens of punctulata before us with longest tegmina, and 

 shows little color variation as well. 



Coloration. — Similar to the normal condition in punctulata 

 except in the distinctive features of the facial pattern, which 

 readily distinguish the present species from any other of the genus. 

 Face pale with four straight transverse parallel dark brown bands; 

 the first between the ventral portions of the eyes broad, the 

 second between the weakly indicated ocellar spots much narrower, 

 the third and fourth ventrad, but dorsad of the clj^peal suture, 

 narrow lines slightly less widely separated than the more dorsal is 

 from the interocellar band. The picturing of the disk of the pro- 

 notum is distinct but not heavily defined, the tegmina are im- 

 maculate, while the limbs have at the bases of the heavier spines 

 the dark brown flecks usually found in the species of the present 

 genus. 



^' In one male before us this projection is clearly somewhat malformed; it is 

 much shorter than in the other specimens and the (-hitinous spines covering 

 the dorsal surfaces of the styles have their apices interlocking above it. 



