CRICKETS — CHOPARD 275 



Female: Almost similar to the male. Maxillary palpi yellowish, 

 with 4th joint a little shorter than the 3d, 5th long, triangular. Elytral 

 venation similar to the male but the veins a little less straight, curved 

 at base and at apex, Cu more neatly furcate. Ovipositor short and 

 wide, the apical valves occupying half the total length. 



Length of body 5.4 mm.; length with wings 8.7 mm.; posterior 

 femur 4.5 mm.; elytra 4.2 mm.; ovipositor 2 mm. 



Metioche peruviana, new species 



Figure 4,h,i 



Holotype: Male; Tingo Maria, Peru, February 1950, Allard 

 (USNM 62077). 



Male: Very close to the preceding. Differing from it in the longer 

 legs, the 5th joint of maxillary palpi shorter and wider and the shape 

 of genitalia (fig. 4,i). The elytral venation is quite similar to that of 

 the female of boliviana. 



Length of body 5.7 mm.; length with wings 9.5 mm.; posterior 

 femur 5 mm.; elytra 4.5 mm. 



Genus Rhicnogryllus Chopard, 1925 



Rhicnogryllus annulipes, new species 



Figures 1,6, 4,fc 



Holotype: Male; Tingo Maria, Peru, February 1950, Allard 

 (USNM 62078). 



Male: Light testaceous, varied with brown. Head a little wider 

 than pronotum, feebly flattened above, adorned Avith four weak brown 

 bands; frontal rostrum as wide as 1st antennal joint. Face triangular, 

 as long as wide, rufous, smooth. Eyes rather strongly projecting, 

 feebly lengthened dorsoventrally; ocelli very small. Antennae 

 yellowish with small brown rings. Palpi yellowish, feebly darkened 

 at apex; 4th joint of maxillary palpi shorter than 3d, 5th in the shape 

 of a long triangle, moderately widened at apex which is straightly 

 truncated. 



Pronotum with parallel sides, anterior margin verj^ feebly convex, 

 bordered with long bristles; posterior margin straight; disk feebly 

 convex, furrowed in the middle, testaceous with two brownish spots 

 near the posterior margin; lateral lobes with straight inferior margin, 

 adorned with a wide longitudinal brown band; surface covered with a 

 rather abundant whitish pubescence and a few long bristles on the 

 sides. Abdomen brownish above, yellow beneath. Cerci yellow. 



Legs rather long, yellowish with brown rings. Anterior and median 

 tibiae with a broAvn ring a little before the apex; tibiae with two 

 brown rings, the anterior ones nonperforated, not at all dUated at 

 base; extremity of the metatarsus and 2d tarsal joint brown. Posterior 



