LOCUSTID^. 377 



6. PhYLLOPTERA OVALIFOLIA. 



ovali folia, Burm. Handh. Ent. ii. 693. 

 South America. 



7. Phylloptera? cassin^folia. 



Locusta cassinrefolia, Enc. Meth, x. 343 — Phylloptera cassinaefulia, Serv. 

 Rev. 46; Hist. Orth. 406, pi. 9, f. 3. 



Brazil. 



8. Phylloptera Zetcterstedti. 

 Zetleistedti, Sial, Bug. Resa^ 322. 



Puna, South America. 



9. Phylloptera magnifolia. 



Mas et foem. Viridis, robustus; verticis carina alba, sulcata, antice 

 truncata ; frons nonnunquam rufescente vittata ; labrum album; 

 prolhoracix discus carinis lateralibus bene deter minatis, margine 

 postico nigra svbrotundalo ; oviductus brevissimus ; pedes validi^ 

 femoribus posticis alarum anticarum dimidio longioribus, tibiis pos- 

 ticis subdilatatis ; alee anticce fusiformes, punctis apud venas nigris ; 

 ala posticcB diaphance, longiores, siriga apicali lata viridi. 



Male and female. Grass-green, partly testaceous, stout, smootir, 

 shining. Head more or less while about the mouth, narrower than the 

 prothorax ; vertex with a white furrowed keel, which is as broad as the first 

 joint of the antennse and is truncated on the fore border; front sometimes 

 with a reddish strij)e, its fore part produced into a cone between the 

 antennae. Eyes brown, nearly round, very prominent. Prothorax with a 

 flat disk, which widens towards the hind border and has a longitudinal 

 impressed line and two transverse impressed lines; of the latter the hinder 

 one is deeply angular ; lateral keels well defined ; fore border hardly 

 excavated; sides with a conical outline; hind border slightly rounded, 

 black, which hue extends along the adjoining part of each lateral keel, 

 Mesoslernum and raetasteriium rather deeply notched. Oviduct deep, 

 curved, about one-fourth of the length of the abdomen. Legs thick ; spines 

 minute; hind femora of the female three-fifths of the length of the fore 

 winjis, longer in the male ; hind tibiae slightly dilated, as long as the hind 

 femora. Fore wings fusiform, shorter by one line than the hind wings, 

 minutely reticulated, with black points along the principal veins; large 

 areolels irregular; costa rounded, except towards the tip; interior border 

 straight, obliquely and slightly truncated towards the lip. Hind wings 

 pellucid; veins white; apical patch green. Length of the body 15 — 17 

 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 60 — 62 lines. 



This may be the P. myrlifolia of Linnaeus and of Fabricius, but is not 

 the myrtifolia of Stoll. 



a, b. Brazil. 



c. Guayaquil. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



