26o SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 52 



DEINOCERITES PSEUDES, new species 



Female. — Antennae very long, the second joint as long as the next 

 three, the terminal joint not swollen. Proboscis rather long and 

 slender, brown-scaled. Mesonotum dark brown-scaled with numer- 

 ous coarse black bristles. Metanotum nude. Abdomen compressed 

 apically, blunt, the cerci small, without jointed appendages, vestiture 

 dark above with bronzy luster, yellowish beneath. Legs bronzy 

 brown-scaled, the femora pale beneath nearly to the apex. Claws 

 simple. Length, 4 mm. 



Male. — Antennae with the third joint slightly shorter than the 

 second, the following joints successively shorter, the last joint with 

 a small knob at the tip, the whorls at the bases of the joints incon- 

 spicuous, as small as in the female. Coloration as in the female. 

 Genitalia approximately as in D. cancer Theob. Length, 4 mm. 



Nine specimens, bred from larvae in crab-holes, Ancon, Canal Zone. 

 Panama (A. H. Jennings). 



Type no. 12053, U. S. N. M. 



DEINOCERITES TETRASPATHUS, new species 



Similar to D. cancer Theobald, but the cerci of the female with 

 four terminal flattened appendages instead of two ; the appendages 

 a^e not inserted together, but are approximated towards the tip of 

 the cercus. Second joint of the antennae about fourteen times as long 

 a? wide, the succeeding joints about six times as long as wide and 

 subequal. Coloration as in D. cancer. 



Two females, Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Puerto Barrios, Guate- 

 mala, without date or collector label. 



Type no. 12109, U. S. N. M. 



DEINOCERITES TROGLODYTUS, new species 



Closely allied to D. cancer Theobald and of the same size and 

 coloration, but the cerci of the female are sharply pointed and have 

 a spine on the lower side (fig. 56, 2), and are not elongate conical as 

 in D. cancer (fig. 56, i), or stoutly conical as in D. melanopliyhiin D. 

 and K. (fig. 56, 3), while the antennae of the male are stout at the 

 tip and uniform, the last joint not disproportionately enlarged (fig. 

 56, 2), not uniformly slender as in D. niclano phylum (fig. 56, 3), nor 

 with the last joint enlarged like a knob, as in D. cancer (fig. 56, i). 



Twenty specimens, Trinidad, British West Indies, June (A. 

 Busck). 



Type no. 12 128, U. S. N. M. 



