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CREOBOTRINAE 

 Acanthops falcataria Goeze 



1778. [Manti.-i] falcataria Goeze, Entom. Beytr.. ii, p. 36. [Xo locality.] 

 Para, Para. (C. F. Baker.) One male. 

 This individual has been compared with a female specimen from 

 Nouveau-Chantier, French Guiana, determined and recorded by 

 Chopard. 



Pseudacanthops caelebs (Saussure) 



18G9. Hlymenopus] caelebs Saussure, Mittl. Schweiz. Entom. Gesell., iii, 

 p. 73. [Unloiown locality, later (1870) given as "Mexico".] 



Madeira-Mamore Railroad Camp 43, Rio Madeira. (Mann 

 and Baker.) One male. 



This specimen fully agrees with c male individual from Bolivia 

 in the Academy collection. Both specimens tally in every re- 

 spect with the detailed description given in 1871 by Saussure. ^^ 



Regarding the locality of the original material; first given as 

 unknown, next as "Mexico" and last as "Orizaba, Mexico"; 

 we feel some doubt. No one has since found the species in Mexico 

 and we now have two definite records from the interior of South 

 America. Might not the geographic association of the material, 

 first considered to be from an unknown locality, have been 

 erroneous? At any rate we will await with interest the acquisi- 

 tion of Mexican material to be compared with our Brazilian and 

 Bolivian individuals. 



VATINAE 

 Cardioptera minor new species (Plate XV, figs. 34 and 35.) 



Allied to C. hrachyptera Burmeister, but differing in the dis- 

 tinctly smaller size, in the less cUstinctly denticulate character 

 of the caudal portion of the lateral margins of the pronotum, in 

 the contrastingly colored marginal field of the tegmina and in 

 the reduction of the femoral lobes. 



Type. — 9 ; Independencia, State of Parahyba, Brazil. (Stan- 

 ford Expedition: Mann and Heath.) [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 Type no. 5272.] 



Size small (for the genus) ; form rather slender, abdomen strongly depressed. 

 Head with the greatest depth comprising about four-fifths of the greatest 

 width, front appreciably concave, the eyes and the adjacent portion of the 



2^ Mem. Mex. Mant., p. 148. 



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