296 BRAZILIAN ORTHOPTERA 



Locheuma brunneri (Scudder) 



1875. Elaeochlora brunneri Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, p. 



270. [Eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes.] 

 1889. Vilerjia flavipennis Gerstaecker, Mitth. Naturw. Ver. Neu-Vorpomm. 



Riigen, Greifswald, xx, p. 13. [Fonteboa, Amazonas, Brazil.] 



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



Peixe Boi, east of Para, Para. November to December, 

 1907. (H. B. Merrill.) Four females. 



Igarape-Assu, Para. January 17, 1912. (H. S. Parish.) 

 One male. [A. N. S. P.] 

 This material fully agrees with Scudder's type, which is now 

 before us, and with Gerstaecker's description of flavipennis, 

 also with two males and one female of the species from eastern 

 Peru (Rio Pacaya, July to September, 1912, two males; Almeria, 

 January 17 to 18, 1913, one female). 



For a proper understanding of the unfortunate complications 

 the proper placing of Scudder's name necessitates, it will be 

 necessary to discuss the matter chronologically. Scudder's 

 original assignment of the species to the genus Elaeochlora was, 

 of course, incorrect, the latter genus having never been seen by 

 him. He was also in error in stating the unique type to be a 

 male, as it is of the opposite sex. The type has been dried from 

 alcohol and has lost almost all of the original coloration. It is 

 labelled in Scudder's handwriting, ''Elaeochlora Brunneri Scudd. 

 type. Peruv. Andes." In his original description of flavipennis 

 Gerstaecker suggests that Scudder's name may have been 

 based on the other sex of his species, which was based on the 

 female; as a matter of fact brunneri was based on a slightly 

 smaller individual of the same sex of the same species as his 

 flavipennis. In 1890, Scudder''^ decided that brunneri repre- 

 sented a new genus allied to Catreus, which he named Locheuma. 

 As a genus it is close to Vilerna Stal, and provisionally, at least 

 until we know more about the relationship of the two entities, 

 can be considered of generic rank, but it is in no way related to 

 Catreus. In 1898, Giglio-Tos^^ erected the genus Caletodes on 

 two species, one of which, C. alatus, has been selected as the type. 

 His genus Caletodes is identical with Locheuma and must fall for 

 the older name, while we feel little doubt but that the species 



s-sProc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xxvii, p. 207, (1890). 



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