Bruner : Sou ni American Loci 171 



perpendicularlj banded <>r vittate. Middle of face, vertex, and 

 occipul with a wide blackish liand bordered on either dde hy a nar- 

 rower one of yellow and deep orange red, sides "I head and posterior 

 hall of cheeks likewise colored, borders of exes and outer face of 

 mandibles dark greenish Mack. Eyes castaneous. Front lobe of 

 the pronotum mostly shining pitchy Mack, the median carina narrowly 

 flavous; hind lobe greenish olive, quite profusely conspersed and 

 streaked with fuscous as in several species of Diponthus. Pleura 

 olivaceous, strongly tinged with piceous. Anterior and middle legs 

 fuscous with a vinaceous tinge above, llavid below. Hind femora 

 dark olive-green with greenish yellow pennae and carina', the genicular 

 portion, excepting the lobes, infuscated, the latter vinaceous. Hind 

 t\biae vinaceous except at the base where they are grayish fuscous. 

 Abdomen and lower side vinaceous. Antenna- black. Wings not 



d bu1 plainly red and black, and presumably of a similar pattern 



i >se of robustu. 

 Length of body, ? , 35 mm., of pronotum 8 mm., greatest width 

 of pronotum 8.5 mm., depth of lateral lobes, 7.25 mm., length of 

 tegmina, 27.5 mm., length of hind femora, 18 mm. 



itat. — Calhao, Rio Sapao, western Bahia, Brazil, February 7, 

 1908, a single female collected by J. D. Haseman. The type is 

 deposited in the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Zoniopoda Stal. 



Zoniopoda Stal, Recens. Orthopt., I, pp. 32, 51 (1873); Bruner, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., XXX, p. 652 (1906); Ib., Ann. Carnegie Mas., VIII, pp. 57-59 (1911)- 



78. Zoniopoda iheringi Pictet et Saussure. 

 Zoniopoda iheringi Pictet et Saussure, Mitth. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., VII, p. 356 



(1887). 



Habitat. — One male from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, at an 

 elevation of 450 meters above sea-level, collected by J. Steinbach. 

 Also a female from Sapucay, Paraguay, during the month of April, 

 where it was collected "on sides of mountains in woods" by J. D. 

 1 [aseman. 



79. Zoniopoda basalis sp. nov. 



A moderately large almost uniformly grass-green locust, without 

 definitely banded legs, and in which the hind wings are largely red or 

 reddish. The characteristic feature of the species is an eye-like 

 orange spot at the base of each of the tegmina. 



