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stratifications of the tropical forest. No list of the Orthoptera of 

 the island as a whole has yet appeared, and special collections should 

 be formed before such a list approaching completeness is attempted. 

 All the Orthoptera taken here were collected on May 3, 1929. 



Family TETTIGONIIDAE 



Subfamily Phaneropterinae 



Insara holivari Griffini : Two adult males. The National Museum 

 also contains a male of this species taken on the island by S. W. Frost, 

 January 21, 1929. 



Subfamily LiSTROSCELiNAE 



Phlugis teres De Geer: One adult female. A female taken by N. 

 Banks on the island on June 26, 1924, is in the National Museum. 



Family ACRIDIDAE 

 Subfamily Acridinae 



AmMytropidia i7isignis Hebard : One adult male. 



Orphulella 'punctata De Geer : Three male and three female adults 

 and one immature female. All these are of the brown phase, but 

 specimens of both green and brown forms were taken on the island 

 b^^ P. Rau and are in the National Museum. 



Subfamily Oedipodinae 

 Heliastus venezuelae Saussure : A sing-le female is labeled " From 



to^ 



boat 2 days out from Panama, July 23, 1929." Thus its exact locality 

 of origin is unknown, but it is probably not Barro Colorado Island. 

 Aside from Paulinia acuminata De Geer, which is included by Heb- 

 ard under the subfamily name Paulininae, this seems to be the only 

 member of the subfamily Oedipodinae now in our Panamanian lists. 



Subfamily Cyrtacanthacrinae * 



Opshomala cylindrodes Stal: One female. The female of this 

 species and that of O. goethalsi Hebard are said to be almost insep- 



* Recently this rather well-established subfamily name for the spine-breasted grass- 

 hoppers has been dropped by some writers in favor of the name Catantopinae. As pri- 

 ority does not prevail in names higher than genera, one is allowed to use his judgment 

 in such matters. If any change at all were necessary the name Podisminae would be 

 preferable, as that is based on the oldest included generic name. Indeed this name Is so 

 much shorter and more euphonic that it would be chosen by the present writer for 

 adoption except for the fact that the longer name Cyrtacanthacrinae is now so well 

 ^established in general use. 



