INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 17 



Orth., vol. ii, p. 276 (1906) ; Conocephalus {Neoxiphidion) 

 equatorialis Karny, Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 135, p. 

 9 (1912). 



One 9, November, 1908. Schunke. 



This specimen agrees very well with the original descrip- 

 tion except that the size is a little greater. 



Conocephalus saltator Saussure. 



Xiphidium saltator Saussure, Rev. Zool., (2), vol. xi, p. 208 

 (1859) ; Anisoptera saltator Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. ii, p. 

 276 (1906) ; Conocephalus (Neoxiphidion) saltator Karny, 

 Wytsman's Gen. Insectorum, fasc. 135, p. 9 (1912). 



One 2 , October 21, 1906. Iconnicoff. Also one male 

 nymph which is probably this species, September 28, 1906. 

 Iconnicoff. 



This seems to be a very variable species and may event- 

 ually prove to contain two or more forms worthy of dis- 

 tinctive names. The posterior femora vary from almost or 

 quite unarmed beneath to distinctly spinose and the prono- 

 tum above may be black or unicolorous with the sides. The 

 adult specimen here recorded has a couple of moderate sized 

 ventral spines on the hind femora and the pronotum is 

 infuscated above. 



Subfamily AGROECIN^ 

 Subria viridis, new species. (PI. I, fig. 9.) 



The green color will at once separate this species from 

 the other New World forms of the genus. 



Description (5. the 9 unknown). — Head barely broader 

 than the pronotum ; fastigium of the vertex but gently 

 tapered, rounded above, about as broad as the basal seg- 

 ment of the antennae and barely extending beyond it, apically 

 rounded and in noways decurved, beneath continuous with 

 the facial fastigium but at the place of meeting there is a 

 very narrow transverse crease ; presternum unarmed, the 

 sternal lobes short, little developed ; pronotum anteriorly and 

 posteriorly truncate, but little produced behind, the disk 

 rounded, slightly flattened posteriorly, merging gradually 

 into the lateral lobes without signs of lateral carinse ; lateral 



