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Genus Luzarida Hebard, 1928 

 Luzarida puUa Ilcbard 



Luzarida pulla Hebard, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 54, p. 41, pi. 8, fig, 1, 1928. 



Specimexs examined: Bolivia: Tumupasa, December 1921 (19), 

 Alami. 



Genus Paragryllus Guerin, 1844 



Paragryllus temulentus Saussure 



Paragryllus temulentus Saussure, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve, vol. 25, 

 p. 413, 1878. 



Specimens examined: Bolivia: Cachuela Esperanza, March 1922 

 (1$), Mann; Tumupasa, December 1921 (19), Mann. 



Genus Ada Hebard, 1928 

 Ada reticulatOf new specicB 



FiGUBE 3,(? 



Holotype: Female; Fimdo Sinchono, elevation 1,550 meters, about 

 40 miles southwest of Pucallpa, Rio Ucuyali, Peru, Sept. 2, 1947, 

 Schunke (USNM 62066). 



Male: Size small. Head as wide as pronotum; occiput and vertex 

 short, strongly convex, rufous adorned with four brown bands, finely 

 pubescent; frontal rostrum very narrow, brown. Face long, shining 

 brown with a median yellow band. Eyes strongly projecting forwards; 

 ocelli small, the anterior one at extremity of the rostrum, the lateral 

 ones very distant from it, quite at base. Antennae wanting. Palpi 

 rather long, brownish; 3d and 4th joints of the maxillary palpi equal 

 in length, 5th longer, feebly enlarged, truncated at apex only. 



Pronotum transverse, pubescent, with straight anterior and pos- 

 terior margins, fm-rowed median line; disk feebl}'" convex, irregular, 

 rufous brown with brown spots; lateral lobes blackish, with inferior 

 margin strongly ascending backwards. Abdomen brown mottled with 

 rufous above, brownish beneath; subgenital plate of medium size, 

 weakly narrowing at apex, with feebly truncated posterior margin. 

 GenitaUa wide, the superior part forming a narrow bridge with a 

 median process in the shape of a trident; inferior parts depressed with 

 a long, curved lateral process (fig. 3,e). 



Legs long, annulated with brown. Anterior tibiae perforated with 

 a small, oval tympanum at base of the internal face; tarsi very long. 

 Posterior femora strongly dilated at base, adorned on the external face 

 with two obhque brown bands and three rings — one in the middle, 

 one in the narrow apical part, and one at apex. Tibiae with three 

 brown rings, armed with four external, three internal spines, finely 



