MORGAN HEBARD 145 



Measurements {in nrillUneters) 



Type discolored. Paratypes moderately discolored, buffy suffused with 

 brown. In one the pale proximal portion of the cephalic femora is pale green, 

 suggesting that this may be the paler coloration in life. Head buffy with 

 spines tipped with brown, as are all the heavier spines of the body. Antennae 

 dark brown, annulate, proximal half of alternate joints buffy. Dorsal surface 

 buffy with traces of a median brown line. Femora dark brown, except proxi- 

 mal portions which are buffy. Tibiae dark brown, irregularly annulate with 

 buffy. 



The species is known from the type and two paratypic males, in 

 the United States National Museum, from San Antonio, Cauca, 

 Colombia, at 6600 feet, taken in November, 1908. 



ANISOMORPHINAE 

 Anisomorpha atrata new sfjccies (Plate XX, fig. 6.) 



The general form and type of male genitalia is characteristic 

 for the genus Anisomorpha. The metanotum is, however, not as 

 long as the combined length of the head and pronotum, the 

 cephalic femora are straight and all the femora are terete dorsad; 

 these features have been supposed to be characteristic for Auto- 

 lycaJ^ 



The mesonotum is feebly armed, as in A. paromalus Westwood. 



Type. — cf ; San Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Mag- 

 dalena, Colombia. Elevation, 8300 feet. August 23, 1913. 

 (M. A. Carriker Jr.) [Hebard Collection, Type No. 452.] 



Size rather large for the genus, form robust. Head about as broad as long; 

 vertex with a decided transverse dorsal impression between the antennal 

 bases; lateral ocelli minute but distinct, latcrad of which are shallow convex 

 impressions, convergent caudad; occiput showing seven longitudinal sulci, of 

 which the three situated mesad are weak, but the median sulcus is percurrent to 

 the impression of the vertex. Antennae with internal margin of first joint 



"^ Redtenl)a('her's separation of these genera is by no means satisfactory. 

 The character of the first antennal joint is hardly of any value whatever, while 

 that author contradicits himself in his statements as to the character of degree 

 of development of femoral carinae. Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden, pp. 87 and 

 94, (1908). Examination of specimens in the Hebard Collection of the geno- 

 type, Autolyca paUidicornis St&l, shows far more important differences from 

 Anisomorpha than would appear, from the literature, to exist, the male genitalia 

 being of a particularh' distinctive type. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. .SOC, XLV. 



