106 COLOMBIAN DERMAPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA 



Xestoblatta carrikeri Hebard 



1916. Xestoblatta carrikeri Hebard, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xlii, p. 374, pi. xix, 



figs. 5, 6 and 7. [cT, 9 : Cincinnati, [Sierra Nevada de] Santa Marta, {Mag- 



dalena,] Colombia.] 



This remarkable species was described from a pair from the 

 collections at present under consideration. No further specimens 

 of this insect have been obtained. 



NYCTIBORINAE 

 Nyctibora obscura Saussm'e 



1864. Niyciibora] obscura Saussure, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 2e ser., xvi, p. 316. 

 [ 9 , Brazil.] 



Cincinnati, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Col- 

 ombia, 4000 to 5000 feet, VII, 1913, (M. A. Carriker Jr.), 19, 

 [Hebard Cln.]. 



Length of body 24.5; length of pronotum, 7.15; width of pro- 

 notum, 10.7; length of tegmen, 26.3; width of tegmen, 10.5 mm. 



Eunyctibora nigrocincta (Shelford) 



1907. Nyctibora nigrocincta Shelford, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7), xix, p. 37. 



[cf, 9, Colombia.] 



Bogotc4, Cundinamarca, 8750 feet, (from A. Maria), 19, 

 [Hebard Cln.]. 



Paratropes bioUeyi Saussure and Zehntner 



1893. Paralropa bioUeyi Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., i, 

 p. 60. [9, Costa Rica; cf, Bugaba, Panama.] 



Cauca, Colombia, 1 9 , [Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila.]. 



This specimen differs from material of P. bilunata Saussure 

 and Zehntner at hand, in having the pronotal marking and the 

 borders of the tegmina uniform translucent antimony j^ellow. 



EPILAMPRINAE 

 Epilampra shelfordi-^ new species (Plate XVIII, fig. 1.) 



This insect belongs to an apparently exclusively South Ameri- 

 can group of the genus, distinguished by the tegmina being not 

 only punctulate, Init with a maculate and marbled ground colora- 

 tion difficult to describe, but giving the insects an unusually 

 richly colored appearance. 



2^ We name this beautiful insect in honor of that distinguished student of 

 the Blattidae, R. Shelford, whose excellent work was so abruptly terminated 

 by his untimely death. 



