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with tlie same color, the imjiression given being that of shading on a rough 
surface with a very soft lead-pencil. Tegmina of the female with the blotch 
at the base of the humeral trunk present, the remainder of the dorsal field 
mottled with blackish fuscous, the areolets in some cases quite strongly 
blotched. Ovipositor cinnamon, lined with blackish, the tip washed with mars 
yellow. 
d'itype). Length of body, 12.8 mm.; length of pronotiun, 2.6; greatest 
(caudal) width of pronotum, 3.8; length of tegmen, 11 ; greatest width of dor- 
sal field of tegmen, 3.8; length of caudal femur, 7.3. 
9 {allolype). Length of body, 16.2 mm.; length of pronotum, 3.8; greatest 
(caudal) width of pronotum, 4.6; length of tegmen, 14; greatest width of 
dorsal field of tegmen, 3.8; length of caudal femur, 9.5; length of ovipositor, 
7.2. 
' The type and allotype of this very distinct species are the only 
individuals seen by us. 
Podoscirtus amusus Saussure 
1878. P[odoscirtus] amusus Saussure, Melang. Orthopt., ii, fasc. vi, pp. 776, 
781. [Pernambuco, Brazil.] 
Independencia, Parahyba. (Mann and Heath.) One female. 
This specimen is slightly under the original measurements 
given by Saussure, and it differs in a few very minor features, 
such as the number of spinulations between the principal spines 
on the dorsal margins of the caudal tibiae, but in all characters 
of specific importance it is in full agreement with the description. 
Saussure says of a77msus, “Abdomen noir, avec une bande laterale 
fauve,” but it is well to emphasize that the black is only on the 
dorsal surface, as it is not indicated on the venter. 
This is apparently the first record of the species since the 
original description. 
Aphonomorphus cearensis new species (Plate IV. figs. 38, 39, 40, 41 and 
42.) 
A very striking small species with a decided and distinctive 
color pattern, related to A. griseus Chopard, from Cayenne, and 
apparently to A. hapithefo7'777is Bruner, from south-central Brazil 
and eastern Bolivia. From griseus it differs in the less decided 
We have now before us the unique female type of Platydactylus fasciatus 
Scudder (Proc. Bost. Soc. Xat. Hist., xii, p. 331, (1869) ), from the Xapo or 
Maranon River. The original describer at a later date, in his revision of the 
exotic species described by him (Ibid., x.xvii, p. 216, (1896) ), referreil this 
species to the Eneoptera, to which, however, it is in no way closely re- 
lated. The type is much battered, possesses only a few of the proximal joints 
TR.\NS. A.M. ENT. SOC., XLIII. 
