78 INSECUTOR INSCITlit MENSTRUUS 



and broadly obtuse-angulate. Abdomen decidedly broader across the 

 middle than the widest part of the pronotum, the lateral angles of the 

 segments not produced, the apical one or two slightly so ; supraanal plate 

 transverse, apically entire ; subgenital plate about twice as broad as long 

 and apically entire and evenly rounded ; cerci short, broad, and pointed, 

 apparently unsegmented. 



Elj^a subquadrate, about as long as the pronotum, apically truncate 

 or slightly concave, the inner margins slightly overlapping in the apical 

 haJf when at rest. Wings rudimentary. 



Legs stout ; femora with each ventral margin armed, in addition to the 

 apical spines, with two to three or four spines in the middle and hind 

 legs, the front ones with a single spine on the side only ; tibiae short, the 

 front ones scarcely more than two times as long as the greatest width ; 

 tarsi short, the metatarsi unarmed beneath. 



Color black, the pronotum with the front and sides with a conspicuous 

 yellow margined stripe which extends backward onto the costal area of 

 the tegmina ; legs reddish yellow ; top of head and the mouth parts also 

 lighter in color. The head, both above and in front, the pronotum and 

 the elytra with minute scattered punctures, more noticeable on the elytra, 

 especially on the dorsal field, where they are arrainged in paraJlel diago- 

 ncJ rows. 



Length, total, 1 7 mm. ; pronotum, 5 mm. Width, abdomen in middle, 

 8.5 mm. ; pronotum posteriorly, 6.5 mm. 



Type, Cat. No. 18359. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Audreia bromeliarum, new species. 



One female. Upper Pequini River, Panama, March, 1909, A. H, 

 Jennings. 



Superficially resembling A. cicatricosa Rehn but readily separated 

 from that species by the head being distinctly exposed, the front of the 

 head being smooth and shiny instead of rugosely pitted as in cicatricosa 

 and by the posterior metatarsus being shorter than the rest of the seg- 

 ments combined and unarmed below, while in cicatricosa it is fully as 

 long as the rest of the segments and spined beneath for most the length. 



Size medium, form depressed and elliptical ; head distinctly exposed, 

 not completely concealed beneath the pronotum as in some of the allied 

 forms ; vertex shallowly punctate, the face smooth and shiny ; antennae 

 about half as long as the body. Pronotum nearly truncate behind, very 

 slightly rounded, anteriorly semicircularly rounded ; mesonotum and meta- 



