MORGAX HEBARD 169 



Libethra molita i \\ estwood) 



1859. Bfirti'iia moUta \\'e.stwoocl, Cat. Ortli. Ins. Brit. Mus., Phasmidae. i). 29, 

 pi. xxiv, fig.s. 3, 3a and 31). [cf , Colombia.] 



Ciinday, Tolima, 1550 feet, X, 1916, (from A. Maria), 1 9 , 

 [Hebard Cln.]. 



Villa Eloira, Caiica, 5900 feet, X, 6, 1908, 1 9 , [U. S. N. M.]. 



San Antonio, Caiica, 5900 and 6600 feet, X, 1908 and I, 1909, 

 2 d^,[U. S. N. M.]. 



The males agi'ee fully with Westwood's excellent description 

 and figures except that one is decidedly larger, the other very 

 much larger, than the type. In addition to the diagnostic features 

 discussed under L. strigiventris (Westwood) for both sexes, we 

 would note that in these males the a^itennae extend to the apex 

 of the abdomen, the dark general coloration is more unicolorous 

 and greenish, and the brief proximal pale portions of the femora 

 more decided, than in any of the males of that species at hand. 



The females have the antennae extending as far as the base of 

 the fourth abdominal segment. The two at hand were green in 

 life. Both agree closely in all features except proportionate 

 length of cephalic femora and mesonotum^" and are apparently 

 very small examples. The female recorded and measured by 

 Brunner, though decidedly larger than these examples, would not 

 be of proportionately large size to the larger male at hand. From 

 these few specimens it would appear certain that the species 

 shows tremendous individual size variation. 



Med.snnnieiitf; (in milUnniprs) 



■A Length of Length of Width of Length of I>ength of 



'^ body mcsonotum niesonotuiu nietauotum cephalic femur 



San Antonio (2 1 . . 73-82 22 . .5-24 .2 1.7 13.8-15 21 . .5-24 . (> 



9 



Villa Kloira .59 13.7 2.7 9.6 15.3 



(\inday (11.5 If) 2.9 10.4 15. S 



A single male from Pueblo Nuevo de Ocana, Santander, taken 

 September 3, 1916, by M. A. Carriker Jr., is at hand. This 

 specimen agrees fully with the males of molita in coloration and 

 all diagnostic features, except that there are a few minute nodules 

 on the otherwise smooth occiput, and, as in L. strigiventris, the 

 latero-caudal angles of the penultimate dorsal abdominal segment 



'•'" It would appear tliat this character as used hy i^ruiuuT i.s of no value. 

 It is probable that his L. .•iocia is a .synonym of this species, or of L. slrigiventris. 



TR.\NS. AM. ENT. SOC, XI.V. 

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