36 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Type and allotype in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum. Paratype in the collection of Iconnicofif. 



Cat. No. 21329, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The paratype appears to have been killed before the color 

 was completely developed as the black coloration of the ovi- 

 positor is not nearly so evident as in the allotype, though other- 

 wise it appears about typical. 

 Bliastes connexus Brunner. 



Bliastes connexus Brunner, Monogr. Pseudoph., p. 193 (1895) ; 

 Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. ii, p. 332 (1906). 



One $ , April, 1909. Schunke. 

 Bliastes spinicornis, new species. 



Description ( $ , the $ unknown). — Basal segment of the 

 antenna with a stout sharp apical spine on the inner margin 

 and the second segment has an acute basal tubercle on the ven- 

 tral margin ; the fastigium of the vertex is elongate-triangular, 

 apically pointed and not exceeding the well-developed antennal 

 scrobse, dorsally sulcate and with a pair of low basal tubercles ; 

 the fastigium of the vertex is separated from that of the face 

 by a broad rounded notch. Pronotum rounded above, and en- 

 tirely covered with tubercles, lateral caringe indicated only 

 posteriorly and there very roundly so ; pronotal disk broadly 

 rounded posteriorly and anteriorly, the front margin with a 

 yellowish ridge ; lateral lobes about twice as long as high, the 

 lower margin horizontal and straight and margined with a yel- 

 lowish thickened border similar to that of the anterior margin 

 of the pronotal disk ; humeral sinus scarcely developed ; pro- 

 sternum unarmed, only tuberculate ; metasternum moderately 

 narrowed posteriorly, the pits merged into one transverse open- 

 ing. Tegmina barely attaining the tip of the abdomen, apically 

 rounded, the margins parallel ; tympanum nearly round, pro- 

 jecting well beyond the anal margin, the membrane opaque on 

 the left tegmen ; wings broad, at rest as long as the tegmina, 

 the outer margin broadly and evenly rounded, the membrane 

 lightly fuliginous, the veins slightly darker. Legs moderate in 

 length; anterior coxge distinctly armed; all genicular arcs 

 spinose except the cephalic ones of the intermediate femora. 



