82 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Oxyblepta Stal. 



Oxyblepta Stal, Recens, Orthopt., I, p. 84 (1873). 



Stenopola Stal, Bihang. Svensk, Akad. Handl., V, no. 4, p. 39 (1878). 



This is still another genus of the subaquatic locusts which is confined 

 to tropical South America. At least five species are known. Two of 

 them are among the material now being studied. 



119. Oxyblepta puncticeps (Stal). 



Opsomala puncticeps Stal, Eugen. Resa, Orthopt., p. 325 (i860). 



Stenopola (Oxyblepta) puncticeps St l, Recens. Orthopt., I, p. 84 (1873). 



(?) Stenopola puncticeps Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Torino, IX, no. 184, 



p. 31 (1894). 

 Oxyblepta puncticeps Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orthopt. Brit. Mus., Ill, p. 415 (1910). 



Habitat.- — Corumba, Brazil, during March to July inclusive (H. H. 



Smith). 



120. Oxyblepta bohlsi (Giglio-Tos). 



Stenopola bohlsii Giglio-Tos, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VIII, p. 813 (1895). 

 Oxyblepta bohlsii Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orthopt. Brit. Mus., Ill, p. 416 (1910). 



Habitat. — Corumba and Chapada, Brazil, where they were collected 

 during the months of March to July inclusive by H. H. Smith. 



Genus Paracornops Giglio-Tos. 

 Paracornops Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Torino, IX, no. 184, p. 31 (1894). 

 Cornops Stal (nee Scudder), Bihang. Svensk. Akad. Handl., V, no. 4, p. 40 (1878). 



The representatives of this genus are fairly abundant at suitable 



locations throughout the tropical parts of Central and South America. 



Four species have been recognized heretofore and two others are now 



added. 



121. Paracornops longicorne sp. nov. 



About the size of P. longipenne De Geer. but differing from that 

 insect by having a larger head with more prominent eyes and a very 

 slender and short acuminate, instead of a long blunt cylindrical, 

 prosternal spine. 



Head moderately large, plainly broader than the anterior margin of 

 the pronotum; the eyes prominent, viewed from above their hind 

 margins forming a little less than a right angle, but greater than in 

 the insect that has bee'n determined and which is referred to in the 

 synoptic key as longipenne (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, p. 662, 

 1906) ; width of vertex about equal to the diameter of the first antennal 

 joint (o 71 ) or fully one and one-half times as great (9 ), the fastigium 



