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BRAZILIAN ORTHOPTERA 
Iiidependencia, Parahyba. (Mann and Heath.) Three males. 
For critical comments on this very plastic and widely ranging 
species see Rehn and Hebard’s recent paper on the American 
Gryllus.^^ 
The descriptive symbols proposed by the above authors, would 
read for these specimens as follows: Ceard; cf, D Y e x 4; 
9, C D? e V O 3. Natal: 9 , C D Y e v 3. Independ- 
encia: d^,AXcx03; cf,AWax03;cf,AXcv0 3. The 
Ceai’4 and Natal specimens have distinct head stripes and ap- 
parently show in all a response to the subarid character of the 
region. 
OECANTHINAE 
Paragryllus temulentus Saussure 
1878. P[aragryllus] temulentus Saussure, Melang. Orthopt., II, fasc. vi, p. 553, 
[Brazil.] 
Porto Velho, Rio Madeira. (Mann and Baker.) One female. 
We have examined, with this specimen, two males from Bartica, 
British Guiana (XII, 12, 1912; H. S. Parish), in the collection 
of the Academy. It seems probable that the Central American 
material referred to this species by Saussure, in 1897,^^ repre- 
sented a different species from the type, which had passed out of 
his hands before that time. At all events the present material 
accords better with his original description than it does with his 
later one, based on Central American specimens. 
Oecanthus tenuis Walker 
1869. Oecanthus tenuis Walker, Catal. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., p. 95. [San- 
tarem, Brazil.] 
Iiidependencia, Parahyba. (Alann and Heath.). Two females. 
These specimens are referred to tenuis, although the eyes are 
not piceous, as described. The material in hand, however, has 
been strongly decolored by immersion in a liquid preservative, 
and the present coloration of the eyes is the greenish white of the 
whole insect. The proximal and second antennal joints are 
finely lineolate with black on their ventral face, that of the prox- 
imal joint occasionally broken mesad, and that of the second 
joint faintly arcuate. The proximal joint is distinctly bullate 
on the ventro-internal face. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1915, pp. 293 to 322, pi. iv, (1915). 
Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, p. 242, pi. xii, figs. 2 to 7. 
