INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 39 



One S , three 9 9 , November 19, 21, and 29, 1916. Icon- 

 nicoff. 



The tegmina of these specimens vary slightly in the infusca- 

 tion of the crossveins and the ovipositor is apically infuscated 

 in two of the females and concolorous in the third. 



Cocconotus similis, new species. 



An inconspicuous species allied to modestus Brunner from 

 Guatemala and Honduras but distinguishable from that species 

 as described by Brunner in having the subgenital plate apically 

 deeply notched. 



Description ( $ , the S unknown). — Head barely as broad 

 as the front part of the pronotum ; fastigium of the vertex very 

 small, triangular, scarcely more than half as long as the anten- 

 nal scrobse, dorsally slightly sulcate and with a pair of prom- 

 inent basal tubercles ; beneath this fastigium is continuous with 

 that of the face but projects somewhat beyond the junction, 

 forming a broad rounded notch ; eyes somewhat longer than 

 broad and very prominent ; antennal scrobse well developed but 

 much shorter than the basal segment of the antenna, beneath 

 which they are continued as a transverse ridge ; basal segment 

 of the antenna with an apical tubercle on the inner dorso- 

 lateral margin ; pronotum wholly and densely covered with 

 moderate sized, smooth, rounded tubercles, none of which are 

 much if any more than one-half as high as broad; disk evenly 

 rounded into the lateral lobes without indication of lateral car- 

 inas except a slight shoulder on the metanotum ; anterior margin 

 of the pronotal disk truncate, the posterior margin broadly 

 rounded ; lateral lobes somewhat longer than high, lower 

 margin straight and horizontal, front margin nearly vertical, 

 the opposite one moderately slanting, the humeral sinus broad ; 

 legs moderately stout, the anterior femora about one and one- 

 half times as long as the pronotum; anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae flat and unarmed above, beneath armed on both sides 

 with several small spines ; foramina shell-shaped, the sides not 

 widely extended ; posterior tibiae armed above and below on 

 both margins with several moderate sized spines, an apical 

 spine a1)ove on the caudal side only : all the femora unarmed 



