june,i 9 o S .] Caudeli. : Aplopus Mayeri, New Species. 83 



uring 3 mm. in length, seemingly more nearly allied in this particular 



to B. subaptera. 



The cerci of the specimen figured were unfortunately absent and 

 the defect in the drawing was not noticed until too late for correction. 

 They should project beyond the tip of the supraanal plate a distance 

 about twice the length of the latter. 

 Vates townsendi Rehn. (Plate III, Figs. 1-2). 



Vates s?. Rehn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, XXII, 221 (1901).. 



Vates sp. Caud., Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash.^V, 165 (1903). 



Vates townsendi Rehn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, XXVII, 573 (1904)- 



As indicated by the above bibliography, this handsome insect was 

 twice recognized in the immature state before the adult was made 

 known. The type specimens were taken by C. H. T. Townsend at 

 Zapotlan, Jalisco, Mexico. Its first recognition from the United States 

 was as a nymph from Arizona, but recently the U. S. National Museum 

 has acquired by purchase from the collector, Mr. E. J. Oslar, two ma- 

 ture males from Nogales, Arizona, collected on June 14 and July 18. 

 These specimens are the ones here figured. 



APLOPUS* MAYERI, NEW SPECIES. 



By A. N. Caudell, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Phasmid described and figured by the writer as Haplopus 

 evadne of Westwood (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, 950, 1904) is 

 not that species, the male having been found to be brachypterous. A 

 number of specimens of both sexes were taken in Florida, Dry Tor- 

 tugas, Loggerhead Key, by Dr. A. G. Mayer. The specimen figured 

 at the above reference is really a male and not a female as there stated. 

 The restored tip of the abdomen however very well represents that of 

 the true female as represented by specimens in the present collection. 

 The female agrees in structure with the male except that the form is 

 more robust and the pronotum and mesonotum are not so smooth and 



* Aplopus was used prior to Gray's work by Megerle von Muehlfeld but seems to 

 not have been used in a valid sense. Thus Gray's name is not invalidated by it. 

 Aplopus being the original spelling, should be used, not the emendation Haplopus of 

 Burmeister. 



