Bruner: South American Acridoidea. L15 



lobes themselves. Prosternal spine pyramidal, ol medium size, 

 acuminate. 



General color above brown the disk of pronotum and sides ol 

 occiput narrowlj bordered on each side l>\ a narrow longitudinal 

 dirt} yellow line; sides of face, luck of lower edges of eyes, and lower 

 edges of sides of pronotum together with a spot in advance of the 

 ion of middle legs, similarly marked. Tegmina uniformly brown. 

 Hind frin ma externally and above embrowned, save for the large pallid 

 sub-basal patch referred to above, and the genae, which are also more 

 or less pallid. Bounding carina' of outer disk of femora alternately 

 dark and pallid. Hind tibiae testaceous basally, becoming dusky 

 apically. Spine- black; antenna', anterior and middle legs, and hind 

 tarsi, testaceous. Dorsum and sides of abdomen sparsely maculate 

 with dull brown. 



Length of body. 9 . 16 mm., of pronotum, 3.65 mm., of tegmina, 5.5 

 mm., of hind femora, 10.5 mm. 



llahitat.- Chapada. Brazil, where it was taken by 11. H. Smith in 

 April. The type is in the collection of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Vilerna Stal. 



Vilerna Stal, Rcccns. Orthopt., I, pp. 38, 71 (1873). 



The genus Vilerna cf Stal is confined to tropica! America, where 

 representatives occur from middle Mexico to northern Argentina. 

 All of the species are of medium size and brunneo-ferruginous in color. 

 They live among the low herbage in and about forests, where they 

 a tendency to gather upon plants like the pineapple and aloes 

 about the bases of the thorny or serrate leaves where they are well 

 protected from enemies. 



159. Vilerna aeneo-oculata (De Geer). * 



Acrydium ceneo-oculata De Geer, Mem. Ins., Ill, p. 502, pi. 42, fig. 11 (1773). 

 Vilerna aneo-oailala StAl, Recens. Orthopt., I, p. 71 (1873). 

 Acrydium sanguinipes Olivier, Encycl. Meth. Ins., VI, p. 231 (1791). 

 Acridium sanguinipes Serville, Ins. Orthopt., p. 670 (1839). 



Habitat. — Benevides, Para, Rio de Janeiro, and Chapada, Brazil, 

 April to July and October (H. H. Smith). It alsc occurs in Central 

 America and all of the northern countries of South America. 



160. Vilerna rugulosa Stal. 

 Vilerna rugulosa Stal, Bihang. Svensk. Akad. Handl., V, no. 4, p. 61 (1878). 

 Habitat- -Specimens determined as this species are at hand from 



