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the adult males the pronotum ranges from 11 to 14.3, the tegmina 

 from 23.7 to 26.6 mm. in length; the former from 2.4 to 2.8 mm. 

 in greatest width. 



An additional series of eight Central American specimens is 

 before us, including a single female. The males show a brown 

 and a green color phase, the green in the latter condition being 

 confined to pronotum and limbs. All of the males which are 

 in good condition, in addition to having the tegmina with mar- 

 ginal field opaque and strikingly buffy or whitish, have the narrow 

 interval between the discoidal and median veins blackish brown 

 proximad as far as the stigma. The internal surface of the 

 cephalic femora has a blackish fleck on each side of the unguicular 

 sulcus, these markings individually varying in size so that in 

 one specimen the entire unguicular area is suffused with brown. 

 In the female the wings are yellow in cephalic portion, l)lack in 

 caudal portion, as described by Saussure. 



Epaphroditinae 



Acanthops falcata StS.1 



1877. A[ca)dhops] falcata StM, Bih. till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. HaiuU., 



IV, no. 10, p. 90. [cT, 9 ; New Granada (= Colombia).] 

 1896. Acanthops erosula Griffini (not of St&I, 1877), Bol. Miis. Zool. Anat. 



Comp. R. Univ. Torino, xi, no. 236, p. 6. [ 9 ; Punta di Sabana, Daricn, 



[Panama].] 

 191.5. A[canthops] griffinii Giglio-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Italiana, xi.vi, p. 98. 



[ 9 ; Punta di Sabana, Darien and Panama.] 



The material here recorded agrees fully with (iiglio-Tos' very 

 short description and Griffini 's much more satisfactory diag- 

 nosis, the references to which are noted above. No dilTerence, 

 however, appears to exist to warrant separation from Stal's 

 falcata, ^'-^ a species which Giglio-Tos apparently did not consider 

 at the time he recognized the fact that Panamanian material 

 was distinct from erosula (=A. tuberculata Saussure^"). 



Paris Field, Cristolxd, Canal Zone, Panama, VIII, 18, 1920, 

 (Hebard; in low wet area, palms, vines and brush), 1 very small 

 juv. 



'^StS,l stated, apparently inadvertently, that the thickening of the median 

 and caudal tibiae in males of this and another species was beyond the middle, 

 while in reality these members are thickened in their proximal half. 



2" See discussion by Chopard, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxxxv, p. 181, (1916). 



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