CRICKETS — CHOPARD 279 



ing on the external face a longitudinal brown band; inferior edges 

 mottled mth brown. Posterior tibiae strongly pubescent, armed with 

 four spines on each margin, stronglj^ serrulated at base and between 

 the spines; external apical spurs very short; superointernal spur almost 

 equal to the metatarsus, median spur a little shorter, inferior half as 

 long as the superior; metatarsus very short, armed above with two 

 strong external denticles, one internal; apical spurs very long, equal 

 in length; 3d joint long and slender. 



Elytra finely pubescent, brownish with the radial vein yellow; 

 median vein mottled with yellow and brown; intercalated triangle 

 blacldsh. Veins rather strongly marked, very oblique; five branches 

 on the cubital vein, lost towards the apex in the reticulation; this is 

 formed of long, narrow, rather regular areolae; lateral field very 

 dark brown; Sc bearing six branches, the 3d branch is divided (on the 

 left side only). Wings extending very little beyond the apex of 

 elytra. 



Length of body 17.5 mm,; length with wings 21.5 mm.; pronotum 

 2.6 mm.; width of pronotum 4.0 mm.; posterior femur 11.0 mm.; 

 elytra 14.5 mm. 



Genus Diatrypa Saussure, 1874 



Diatrypa palliclilabris Chopard 



Figure 4,m 



Diatrypa pallidilabris Chopard, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 81, p. 415, 1913. 



Specimens examined: PertG: Pucallpa, Feb. 20, 1948 (19), 

 Schunke; Tingo Maria, December 1949 (19), February 1950 (IcT), 

 Allard. 



Diatrypa allardif new species 



Figures l,d, 4,w 



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

 (USNM 62081). 



Male: Uniformly testaceous. Head flattened with frontal rostrum 

 a little narrower than the 1st antennal joint, somewhat rounded at 

 apex. Face as long as wide, yellowish. Eyes feebly projecting; ocelli 

 very small. Antennae yellow v/ith small brown rings. Palpi wanting, 



Pronotum weakly narrowing in front, with anterior and posterior 

 margins straight, ciliated; disk rather strongly convex, finely pubes- 

 cent; lateral lobes darker than the disk, long with feebly sinuated 

 inferior margin, rounded angles. Abdomen dark brown; subgenital 

 plate rather short subtruncate at apex. Genitalia, small, narrowing, 

 deeply notched at apex (fig. 4,71). 



