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Ceratinoptera picta Brunner (Fig 2.) 



1865. Ceratinoptera picta Brunner, Nouv. Sj-st. Blatt., p. 70, pi. I, figs. 4, 



AtoE. [c^, 9, Brazil.] 

 1906. Phyllodromia (?) binotata Bruner, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiv, p. 140. 



[ 9 ?(inistake, specimen a male), Trinidad.] 



The type of Bruner's binotata, which that author has most 

 kindly sent us for examination, shows beyond question the above 

 synonymy. The specimen exhibits a slight and unimportant 

 color variation, the striking meso-caudal pronotal marking being 

 narrowly and very weakly suffused mesad; the tegmina are 

 fully developed. 



Brunner's description of the insect leaves no room for doubt 

 as to the identity of the material before us, but he fails to mention 

 any of the important features found in the limbs (see generic 

 description), furthermore his figures are not minutely accurate, 

 portions of the wing venation and of the distal abdominal seg- 

 ments being clearly sketchy. 



The species is appreciably smaller and more slender than C. 

 nahua. The ocellar spots are pale and distinct. The distal 

 (fifth) joint of the maxillary palpi is very large and strongly 

 obliquely truncate, nearly half again as long as the fourth joint, 

 subequal in length to the third. Pronotum very 

 weakly transverse. Tegmina and wings fully 

 developed in all material known, as in nahua 

 when this condition there occurs (see generic 

 description) ; but the area of the dextral tegmen. Fig. 2. Ccra- 

 concealed when at rest, is in the present insect tinoptera picta 

 suddenly and very sharply defined, while the area Brunner. 



embracing the swollen portions of the costal veins ^ .'.', \'^''l^^'"°' 

 P .^ . . , , , rr-,, i rimdad. Dor- 



ot the wmgs is somewhat embrowned. The sal view of pro- 

 broad proximo-mesal depression of the seventh notum (X 4.) 

 abdominal segment in the male is weakly raised 

 mesad, the margins of this elevation forming a triangle with 

 apex cephalad and supplied with a cluster of hairs; the eighth 

 and ninth dorsal abdominal segments are narrower with caudal 

 margins alone visible. The male supra-anal plate is triangularly 

 produced with margins weakly convex and apex rounded; in 

 the female it is similar but with apex distinctly angulato- 

 emarginate. The male subgcnital plate is moderately large, 



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