CRICKETS — CHOPARD 249 



chord straight; lateral field almost black with four parallel veins. No 

 wings. 



Length of body 7.0 mm.; posterior femur 5.0 mm.; elytra 4.0 mm.; 

 pronotum 1.5 mm., width of pronotum 2.4 mm. 



Remarks: This species has the same size and general habitus as P. 

 cubensis but the elytral mirror and genitalia are stronglj'- different 

 (fig. 3,&,c). 



Genus Hygronemohius Hebard, 1915 



Hygronemobtus albipalpus (Saussure) 



N'eitiobhis albipalpus Saussure, M6m. Soc. Phvs. Hist. Nat. Geneve, vol. 25, 

 p. 89, 1877. 



Specimens examined: PERtJ: Pucallpa, Oct. 8, 1947 (Icf, 599), 

 Oct. 13, 1947 (19), Jan. 10, 1948 (19), Mar. 2, 1948 (19), Schunke. 



Hygronemohius longespinosusy uew species 



Figure l,a 



Holotype: Female: RuiTenabaque, Rio Beni, Bolivia, November 

 1921, Mann (USNM 62063). 



Female: Small; testaceous, a little mottled with brown. Head 

 rounded, presenting above two very feeble brown bands; fom* rows 

 of long bristles extending to the apex of the vertex. Face yellowish 

 with two rounded brown spots near the internal margin of the antennal 

 sockets. Antennae and palpi yellowish; 5th joint of maxillary palpi 

 in the shape of a long triangle, feebly enlarged at apex. 



Pronotum feebly narro's\dng in front, with posterior margin convex; 

 disk yellowish varied with large brown spots, bearing long bristles; 

 lateral lobes with weakly sinuated inferior margin, rounded angles; 

 their color is dark bro^vu with a few small yellow spots, inferior margin 

 lined with yellowish. Abdomen varied with yellowish and brownish. 

 Ovipositor rather short, very weakly curved, with apical valves 

 occupj'ing more than half the total length, very acute at apex, their 

 margins smooth, the inferior ones very narrow. 



Anterior legs wanting. Median femora yellowish with two small 

 transverse bands, apex also bro\\Tiish; tibiae with two brownish rings; 

 metatarsi as long as the two other joints united. Posterior femora 

 yellowish with oblique brown stripes on the external face, superior 

 margin entireh'" bro\vnish, small rings of the same color a little before 

 the apex; internal face presenting in superior part only three brownish 

 bands; tibiae adorned with two light brown rings near the base and 

 small spots at base of each spine; these are very long, pubescent, 

 brown with 3-eIlow base and apex, and there are three on each margin ; 



