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dusky and the femora all have distmct and quite noticeable 

 piceous spots at the base of each ventral spine; the fastigium 

 of the vertex and the basal segment of the antennae are 

 slightly brownish and at the vertex of the facial scutellum 

 is a slightly elongate yellowish ©cellar spot ; the elytra of the 

 $ also has a few small but noticeable black spots about the 

 middle. 



Measurements. — Length : pronotum, $ and 9 , 6 mm. ; 

 tegmina, 5,11 mm., $ , 7.5 mm. ; posterior femora, $ , 14 mm., 

 9,15 mm. ; ovipositor, 10 mm. ; width : pronotum at posterior 

 margin, $ and 9 , 4 mm. ; ovipositor at widest point, 2.5 mm. 



Described from five specimens. Type $ , December 2, 1906. 

 Iconnicoff. Allotype 9 , November 24, 1906. Iconnicofif. 

 Paratypes a, b, and c, all females, the last a nymph ; a and c by 

 Iconnicoff on December 1 and 12, 190G, and b by Schunke in 

 December, 1908. 



Type, allotype, and paratype c in the collection of the U. S. 

 National Museum. Paratypes a and b in the collection of Icon- 

 nicofif. 



Cat. No. 21324, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The paratypes show no variations from the typical. 



Dectinomima peruviana, new species. (PI. II, fig. 15, b.) 

 Similar in structure to Dectinomima jenningsi from Panama 

 but smaller and not so black. 



Description (9, the $ unknown). — General form stout, 

 having the general aspect of a dectician. Head with the fastig- 

 ium of the vertex a little narrower than the basal segment of 

 the antenna and scarcely as long, and marked above with a 

 slight longitudinal impressed line, the sides parallel or very 

 slightly convergent and the apex broadly rounded, beneath con- 

 nected with the frontal fastigium by a very narrow vertical 

 ridge. Pronotum posteriorly more broadly rounded than in 

 jenningsi (PI. II, fig. 15, a), and moderately produced, the disk 

 rounded, no trace of lateral carinae ; lateral lobes shallow, the 

 lower margins declivent, the deepest part of the lobe being be- 

 hind the middle ; humeral sinus distinct but shallow ; prosternal 

 spines long and sharp. Abdomen short and stout, but little 



