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U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 261 



FiGxjRE 111. — Cicciana obliqua (Walker), specimens from Santa Gatarina, 

 Brazil, plate not shown in c. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF CICCIANA 



Specimens in dorsal aspect black, with vmdulate posterior band on 

 pronotum and oblique band on apical half of forewing, yellow. 



C. obliqua (Walker) (fig. Ill) 



Specimens in dorsal aspect brown, with yellow markings much more 

 numerous C. latreillei (Distant) (fig. 110) 



23. Genus PELTOCHEIRUS Walker 



Figures 112, 113 



Peltocheirus Walker, 1858b:247. Type-species: Tettigonia bigibbosa Signoret, by 



monotypy. 

 Cymbalopus KLirkaldy, 1907d:88. Type-species: Tettigonia bigibbosa Signoret, 

 by original designation and monotypy. 



Length 13-15 mm. 



Head well produced, with anterior margin broadly rounded or 

 weakly carinate at apex, median length less than interocular width, 

 ocelli prominent, with a distinct M -shaped elevation bordering pos- 

 terior margin, with a median full-length fovea and a tuberosity on 

 each side of it at apex, without a longitudinal keel laterad of each 

 ocellus, disc with or without microsetae; antennal ledges longitudinally 

 foveate, in lateral aspect with dorsal margin carinate and with anterior 



