104 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



144. Paralexias punctipennis Bruner? 



Paraleuas punctipennis Bruner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, pp. 670, 671 (1906). 

 Habitat. — There are specimens of a third Paraleuas at hand which 

 are referred to this species, although they vary somewhat from the 

 type which has been used for comparisons. They come from Cor- 

 uinba and Rio de Janeiro, where they were collected in May and 

 October by H. H. Smith. 



Genus Orthoscapheus Bruner. 

 Orthoscapkeus Bruner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, p. 671 (1906). 



This genus is related to Jodacris Giglio-Tos, and occurs in the 

 same general region. Only a single species is known. 



145. Orthoscapheus roseipennis Bruner. 



Orthoscapheus roseipennis Bruner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, p. 672 (1906). 

 ? Osmilia coriacea Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Torino, IX, no. 184, p. 18 



(1894). 



Habitat. — Corumba, Brazil, during the months of March to July 

 inclusive (H. H. Smith). 



As noted in the paper where described (/. c, p. 672) this insect 

 may prove to be Giglio-Tos's Osmilia coriacea. However, by the 

 use of that author's synoptic table of genera of South American 

 Acridiens it runs to Jodacris instead. 



Genus Jodacris Giglio-Tos. 

 Jodacris Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Torino, XII, no. 302, p. 32 note (1897). 

 Judging from the material before me, the present genus is com- 

 posed of several somewhat closely allied species of locusts, which 

 inhabit open woods, where they live among the fallen leaves and 

 spend much of the time upon herbage, shrubs, and the trunks of 

 trees. Accordingly they are inconspicuously colored. At least one 

 of the species, ferruginea, is quite variable in its coloration. They 

 probably deposit their eggs in decaying wood, or the bark of trees, 

 since the present writer, while at San Bernardino, found the insects 

 to be quite insistent in their desire to stick to fallen trees which had 

 begun to decay. 



Synopsis of the Species of Jodacris. 

 A. Larger (<? , 19-20 mm., 9, 22 mm.). Body rather robust. The sides of 

 pronotum, tegmina, and femora quite prominently mottled, or marked 

 with fuscous. 



