94 COLOMBIAN DERMAPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



In the series the head varies from 3 by 2.6 to 3.8 by 3 mm.; the greatest 

 abdominal width ranges from 5.1 to 5.4 in the males and from 4.1 to 5.1 in the 

 females. 



Specimens Examined: 10; 3 males and 7 females. 



Soacha, Cundinamarca, VI, 17, 1904, (from A. Maria), 3cf, 5 9, type, 

 allotype, paratypes, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Bogota, Cundinamarca, 8750 feet, (from A. Maria), 2 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. 



SPONGOPHORINA'E 



Spongophora f orf ex Scudder 



1876. Spongophora forfex Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xviii, p. 

 259. [cf, doubtless subtropical or tropical America.] 



Jiminez, Cauca, 1600 feet, VII, 1907, (M. G. Palmer), Ic^, 

 19, [A. N. S. P.]. 



The species of the present genus show astonishing variation in 

 the development of the forceps. Whether such variation is also 

 exhibited in the beading of the caudal margins of the dorsal ab- 

 dominal segments, and on the ultimate dorsal abdominal segment, 

 is at present not known. Until this problem is solved the number 

 of valid species of Spongophora will remain in doubt. 



At present we believe the pair at hand to represent a very- 

 depauperate condition of Scudder's species,^" comparable with the 

 depauperate material before us of S. croceipennis, recently re- 

 corded from Panama." 



* In the males the sinistral arm of the forceps is measured. 



* The measured paratypes represent the extremes of the series before us. 



1" It would appear very likely, from consideration of Burr's description and 

 figures of his S. bor/nansi, that his name is based on material showing an 

 intermediate development of the present insect and should be assigned to 

 synonymy here. 



11 Helmrd, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xliii, p. 306, (1917). 



