50 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 261 



SPECIES OF HOMOSCARTA 



[*Type not seen.] 



boliviana Schmidt, 1928a:46. Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. 

 ecuadoriana Schmidt, 1928a:46. Ecuador. 

 * irregularis (Signorct), 1 855b: 232 {Tettigonia) . Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. 



ofella, Amblydisca Distant, 1908b:71. New synonymy. 

 superciliaris (Jacobi), 1905c: 165 {Amblydisca). Peru, Bolivia. 



KEY TO MALES OF HOMOSCARTA 



1. Pygofer gradually decurved in lateral aspect, acute apically 



H. irregularis (Signoret) (fig. 33) 

 Pygofer not so 2 



2. Male plates not extending as far posteriorly as pygofer apex. 



H. superciliaris Qacobi) (fig. 34) 

 Male plates exceeding pygofer apex posteriorly 3 



3. Larger insects, darker in color, pygofer truncate apically. 



H. boliviana Schmidt (fig. 35) 

 Smaller, paler insects, pygofer convex apically. 



H. ecuadoriana Schmidt (fig. 36) 



5. Gf«»5 DICTYODISCA Schmidt 



Figure 37 

 Dictyodisca Schmidt, 1928a:50. Type-species: Amblydisca salvini Fowler 

 (1898a:209), by original designation and monotypy. 



Length 17-18 mm. 



Head slightly produced and broadly rounded in dorsal aspect, 

 length less than half interocular width, apex slightly elevated and 

 carinate, ocelli on a line between anterior angles of eyes and each 

 equidistant between adjacent eye angle and midline, disc with a 

 broad shallow median fovea, with a short longitudinal keel laterad 

 of each ocellus; antennal ledges foveate, not carinate dorsally, anterior 

 edges declivous; clypeus with muscle impressions distinct; disc de- 

 pressed; face finely pubescent; clypellus produced, contour of its lower 

 portion at right angle to profile of clypeus, with a median carina. 



Thorax with pronotal width greater than transocular width of 

 head, lateral margins convergent anteriorly, disc transversely rugose 

 and punctate, with dorsopleural carinae complete; scutellum trans- 

 versely rugose on posterior half. Forewing with membrane, veins 

 distinct apically but obscure basally, surface coriaceous and punctate 

 basad of membrane, with considerably more than four apical cells; 

 corium with an anteapical plexus of veins and with anteapical super- 



