ART. 3 ORTHOPTEROID INSECTS PROM JAVA CAUDELL. 35 



Genera SYMPAESTRIA Brunner and STIBAROPTERA Brunner 



There appears to be considerable confusion as to the characters 

 and status of the species of Sympaestria. Brunner entered this genus 

 in his keys under the category of forms in which the anterior coxae 

 are spined, while as a matter of fact the coxae are unarmed. Also 

 Brunner described a species from the East Indies as Stibara cornea 

 and gave the habitat as Brazil, and one year later ^^ he admitted 

 the synonymy of this species with the Sympaestria nitidifolia of 

 De Haan from the East Indies, which infers the admission of error 

 in the habitat of cornea. Dohrn, in view of the above facts, rele- 

 gates the genus Stihara of Brunner to the synonymy under Sympaestria, 

 and describes one new species, longipes from Java. It results, how- 

 ever, that, of the four species thus classed in Sympaestria, two, 

 acutiloha Brunner, the type of the genus, and truncatilohata Brunner, 

 have the foramina of the anterior tibiae open on the outer side only, 

 that on the inner side being partly closed, classed as conchate, while 

 in nitidicoloa De Haan ( = cornea Brunner) and longipes Dohrn the 

 foramina are open on both faces of the tibiae. As this foraminal 

 character is of generic importance the forms with the foramina open 

 on both sides should be removed from the genus in which they are 

 conchate on the inner side. For these species the generic name Sti- 

 haroptera of Bolivar, a name made to replace the preoccupied Stibara 

 of Brunner, is available. The two genera will thus stand as follows: 



I. Sympaestria Brunner. (Type, acuteloba Brunner.) 



(Anterior coxae unarmed; anterior tibiae with foramina open on 

 the outer side only.) 



1. S. acutelobata Brunner. 



2. S. truncatilohata Brunner. 



II. Stibaroptera Bolivar {=Stibara Brunner). (Type, cornea Brunner.) 

 (Anterior coxae unarmed; anterior tibiae with foramina open on 

 both sides.) 



1. S. nitidifolia DeHaan (=cornea Brunner). 



2. S. longipes Dohrn. 



SYMPAESTRIA ACUTELOBATA Brunner 



Sympaestria acutelobata Brunner, Monogr. Phaneropt., 1878, p. 185, pi. 3, figs 

 52o, b. 



ANEROTA GRACILIS Bnrmeister 



Phaneroptera gracilis Burmeistbr, Handb. Ent., vol. 2, 1838, p. 690. 



Seven males and one female, Buitenzorg, March and June; Tjibodas, 

 Mount Gede, April 20, and Pelaboean Ratoe, without date. 



XANTIA BORNEENSIS Brunner 



Xantis borneensis Brunner, Monogr. Phaneropt., 1878, p. 371, pi. 7, fig. 112. 

 One female, Tjibodas, Mount Gede, April 20. 



i«See Dohrn, Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. 8, 1892, p. 72. 



