CRICKETS — CHOPARD 289 



62094). Allotype: Tiunupasa, Bolivia, December 1921, Mann (9) 

 (USNM). Paratype: Chanchamayo, Peru, Apr. 29, 1948, Schunke 

 (Icf) (MNHN). 



Male: General aspect of a small Ajphonomorphus; light broxvm with 

 half a score blacldsh spots on the median vein. Head above blackish 

 brown with seven yellow lines; frontal rostrum sloping, cannaliculated, 

 narrower at apex than the 1st antennal joint, its margins provided 

 with long hairs. Face yellowish. Eyes projecting; lateral ocelli large, 

 oval, anterior one smaller; they are united by a yellow band extend- 

 ing laterally to the eyes. Antennae yellow with a few small brown 

 rings. Palpi yellowish with a weak brown ring at apex of 3d and 4th 

 joints; 5th joint feebly securiform, as wide at apex as long. Pro- 

 no turn a little wider in front than long, feebly widening backwards; 

 anterior margin nearly straight, posterior margin sinuated; disk 

 feebly convex, pubescent, light brown with two large 3'ellowish im- 

 presses; lateral lobes almost t\vice as long as high, with inferior margin 

 feebly ascending backwards, anterior angle rounded; color blackish 

 in the superior half, yellowish in the inferior one. Abdomen brownish 

 above, yellov/ish beneath; epiproct quadrangular; subgenital plate 

 rather large, feebl}^ narrowing backwards with apical margin slightly 

 concave. Cerci yellowish. Genitalia triangular in their general 

 shape, divided in the apical third in three lobes, the median being 

 curved upwards and feebly divided at apex. 



Legs rather short, yellowish with a few small brown spots, strongly 

 pubescent. Anterior tibiae without any trace of a tympanum. Pos- 

 terior femora rather strongly dilated, very feebly striated on the ex- 

 ternal face. Posterior tibiae armed with four^external, five internal 

 spines, strongly denticulated at base and between the spines; external 

 apical spiu-s very short; superointernal spur almost twice as long as 

 the median; metatarsus very short, armed with three external den- 

 ticles and one internal denticle besides the apical spurs, which are 

 long and equal in length, 



El3^tra light brown, finely pubescent, with very conspicuous dark 

 spots on the cubital vein; veins feebly oblique and regularly spaced; 

 Cii bearing two branches; Cu.p divided near the proximal fourth; 

 transverse veinlets numerous and rather regular, a little darker than 

 the principal veins; lateral field a little fighter than the dorsal field; 

 Sc bearing three branches. Wings a fittle longer than the elytra. 



Length of body 15.5 mm.; length with wings 21.0 mm.; pronotum 

 2.5 mm.; posterior femur 11.0 mm.; elytra 14.0 mm. 



Remarks: This species seems close to the type of the genus {Para- 

 phonus cophus Hebard) but it is not so robust in its general shape, 

 with wings a little longer; from Hebard's description, it seems that 

 the genitalia are of a quite different shape. 



