JAMES A. G. REHN /// 



Orphulella punctata (DeGeer) 



1773. Acrydium pundaliim DeGeer, Mem. Hist. Ins., iii, p. 503, pi. 42, fig. 

 12. [Surinam.] 



Maranguape Mountains, Ceara. (W. M. Mann.) One 



female. 

 Ceara-Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte. (W. ]\I. Mann.) One 



female. 

 Independencia, Parahyba. (Mann and Heath.) Six males, 

 two females. 

 This series exhibits a number of the phases and variations of 

 this plastic and widespread species. 



Orphulella boucardi (Bruner) 



1904. Linoceratium boucardi Bruner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., ii, p. 84- 



[Rio Sarstoon, British Honduras; Panama; San Diego, Department of Mag- 



dalena, Colombia.] 

 1906. Orphullela [sic] chipmani Bruner, Journ. N. Y. Entom. Soc, xiv, p. 



149. [Interior of island of Trinidad.] 

 1911. Ldnoceratium auslralc Bruner, Ann. Carneg. ]\Ius., viii, p. 20. [Co- 



rumbd, Brazil.] 



Para, Para. (C. F. Baker.) Five males, three females. 



Igarape-Assu, Para. Feb. 1, 1912 (one specimen only). 

 (H. S. Parish.) Six males, two females. [A. N. S. P.] 



Porto Velho, Rio Madeira. (Mann and Baker.) One 

 female. 

 At the present moment we have before us the selected type (cf ) 

 of Linoceratium boucardi from Panama, now belonging to the 

 Hebard Collection, quite a full series of topotypic Orphulella 

 chipmani and a topotypic male of Linoceratium australe. It is 

 clearly evident that all three names belong to the same species, 

 and it is equally certain that Linoceratium is not a valid genus. 

 Our series fully agrees with the description of chiymani, is insep- 

 arable from the type of boucardi and the Corumba male fully 

 agrees with the description of australe, but nevertheless is not 

 separable from the others. The characters given for the genus 

 Linoceratium are not of generic worth, as there is sufficient varia- 

 tion in a series of any size to discount the value of the subobsolete 

 character and arcuate, straight or faintly converging form of the 

 prozonal lateral carinae. The infuscation of the caudal genicular 

 lobes is purely individual, depending on the depth of the general 

 pattern. To us the species appears to be a well marked form of 



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