Sept., 1901.] Bruner : The Orthoptera of Trinidad. L59 



late on each side of disk in front. Tegmina having a sort of maculate appearance due 

 to the fuscous background and the pale testaceous veins, nervures and veinlets, the 

 latter of which are drawn together in clusters leaving darker spots without them. 

 Spines of legs compressed or flattened, hairy and more or less curved apically ; 3-5 

 minute ones on the inner side of anterior, 4 larger on outer side of intermediate, and 

 9 on outer carina of posterior femora; those on hind tibiae above strong, inside 12 

 and longer, outside 10 and weaker. Hind femora with a dash of black internally 

 near the base. Ovipositor serrato-crenulate on upper edge, near the apex with three 

 transverse rugae and the same number of round tubercles. Subgenital plate trianou- 

 pate with the apex rather acutely and deeply emarginate. Pro-, meso-, and meta- 

 sternum together with inner side of middle and hind femora, and the middle tibia; 

 shining black. Ovipositor piceous, inclining to black apically. Antennae broadly 

 annulate with pale and dusky. 



Length of body, cT, 35, 9, 4°-4 2 ; of pronotum, cT, 8.25, 9, 

 10.15; of tegmina, cT, 4-5> ?> 53-57 ; of anterior femora, tf, 13, 

 9, 15 ; of hind femora, rj\ 26, 9, 31-34; of ovipositor, 27-29 mm. 



Habitat. — Island of Trinidad, H. D. Chipman, collector, 2 d\ 

 1 9, W. E. Broadway. 



85. Platyphyllum (?) modestum, new species 



Rather below the medium in size, testaceous varied with small fuscous streaks 

 along the veins of tegmina. 



Front strongly oblique, testaceous. Pronotum rugose, the transverse sulci deep. 

 Tegmina rough, testaceous varied with a few dark streaks along the veins. Meso- 

 and metasternum unicolorous, dark testaceous. Wings a little infuscated, not tes- 

 sellate. Legs shortly pilose. Anterior femora a little compressed and arcuate at base, 

 above carinate on apical third, 5-spined below on anterior margin ; middle pair 4- 

 spined ; anterior and middle tibiae without spines above; hind femora 7- or 8-spined. 

 Subgenital plate triangular, not notched. Ovipositor of moderate size, nearly straight, 

 the disk towards the apex provided with two or three transverse ruga;, pale at base, 

 piceous at apex. 



Length of body, 9, 29, of pronotum, 6.75, of tegmina, 28, 

 width of tegmina, 7, length of anterior femora, 9, of hind femora, 17, 

 of ovipositor, 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Island of Trinidad, H. D. Chipman, collector. A 

 single female specimen. 



This insect does not agree very well with the diagnosis of the genus 

 Platyphyllum, but insisted on running there when going over the syn- 

 optic table of genera in Brunner's Monograph of the Pseudophyllidas. 



86. Meroncidius atrispinosus, new species. 



A little above the medium in size, anterior and middle femora provided with four 

 black spines ; hind femora 8-spined, these likewise black. 



Testaceous. Antenna? unicolorous, testaceous. Pronotum unicolorous, rather 



