MORGAN HEBARD 349 



further material to determine the vaHdity of the genus Chloro- 

 phasma. 



Type.— 9; Porto Bello, Panama. :March 2, 1911. (A. 

 Busck.) [United States National Museum.] 



Size large for the genus, form slender. Ocelli small but distinct. Eyes 

 moderately but not strongly projecting. Head and pronotum smooth, the 

 latter with transverse sulcus decided and longitudinal sulcus weak. Mesono- 

 tum smooth in caudal portion, with a well defined tran.sverse sulcus; cephalic 

 portion granulose and with a few blunt lateral tubercles, longitudinal sulcus 

 shallow but distinct. Tegmina large for the genus (but decidedly surpassed 

 in size by those of graminea), ovate but showing strong distal obliquity to the 

 rounded apex at the sutural margin, flattened but showing blunt tubercu- 

 lation at the shoulders. Wings fully developed, reaching to near base of 

 eighth tergite. Abdomen with tergites (except supra-anal plate) not carinate. 

 Ultimate tergite truncate, weakly bilobate distad, with a minute, rounded 

 supra-anal plate projecting beyond, which is shorter than wide and is medio- 

 longitudinally carinate. IMesosternum alone finely granulose. Operculum 

 elongate, extending slightly beyond median portion of ultimate tergite, smooth 

 and not carinate, narrowing distad to the sharply rounded apex which forms 

 an angle distinctly less than ninety degrees. Femora all bicarinulate dorsad 

 and ventrad, the cephalic decidedly incurved at base; median carina of ventral 

 surface weak but distinct on cephalic femora, a trace suggested distad on the 

 median femora, absent on the caudal femora. Tibiae all pentagonal. 



General coloration apple green, underparts chamois. Antennae with first 

 two joints immaculate, succeeding joints with a heavy short distal annulus 

 of blackish brown, these annuli becoming much longer and more widely 

 spaced distad where the joints become compound, a number of the short 

 sections of the compound joints there form these annuli; proximal annuli 

 incomplete as they do not wholly encircle the antennae. Head with a very 

 slender postocular streak of blackish brown, pronotum immaculate. Meso- 

 notum with (three or four) lateral tubercles black and with a very slender 

 marginal streak of blackish brown below the slender carinae, which are ap- 

 proximate to the lateral margins. Tegmina and anterior field of wings, with 

 scattered angular patches which are slightly darker than the general color- 

 ation, apparently bice green, but under the lens .^oen to be a shade darker thsn 

 the other portions with a number of microscoi)i(! irregular flecks of purjjlish 

 black. Radiate field of wings transparent milky white, like ground glass. 

 Limbs buffy tinged with green, showing very obscurely traces of a number of 

 light brownish annuli. Femora, tibiae and tarsal joints all minutely flecked 

 with blackish brown at their apices. 



The type measurements are given first. Females. Length of body, 73 

 and 74; length of pronotum, 3.7 and 3.8; length of mesonotum, 7.8 and 8.7; 

 length of tegmcn, 6.8 and 6.8; length of wing, 49. .5 and 49.8; length of cephalic 

 femur, 16.9 and 16; length of caudal femur, 16.3 and 15.4; length of caudal 

 tarsal joints, 7.4 and 7.2; length of caudal metatarsus, 3 and 3.2 mm. 



TK.VNS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVIII. 



