478 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



disk crenulately pinnate; the genicular lobes large and somewhat 

 acuminate. Hind tibiae and tarsi profusely hirsute, the spines of 

 former small, seven in number externally, the latter with the second 

 joint longer than the first and about equal to the third; prosternal 

 spine minute, acuminate, located on a heavy quadrate base formed 

 of the anterior half of ihe sternite. Mesosternal lobes separated by a 

 space a little wider than the lobes and about as long as broad. Valves 

 of the ovipositor slender, the upper pair straight and blunt, the lower 

 ones slender, acuminate, about one-half the length and partly hidden 

 between the basal half of the upper heavier pair. 



General color pale greenish yellow, the occiput, disk of pronotum 

 and dorsal area of tegmina cinnamon-brown. Face at base of antennae 

 provided on each side with a glossy pale or milky white area, which 

 gradually widens and reaches the lower hind angle of the cheeks; 

 another similar line commences with the middle of the hind margin 

 of each eye and continues along the lateral margins of the disk of the 

 pronotum to the base of the tegmina. Latter provided with two white 

 lines embracing one of carmine, edged below by black, the superior 

 white line also edged above by a black line; costal margin rather 

 widely hyaline. Hind femora golden yellow externally, the carinal 

 tubercles black; genicular area strongly infuscated, but with the 

 lunules vinaceous and the lobes grayish olive. Hind tibiae vinaceous, 

 becoming deep purple internally towards the apex, near base colored 

 like the genicular lobes of the femora, tarsi ferruginous. Antennae 

 black with two basal joints pallid. 



Length of body, 9 , 27 mm., of pronotum, 6.2 mm., of tegmina, 

 12.5 mm., of hind femora, 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, a single female specimen 

 taken by J. Steinbach at an elevation of 450 meters above sea-level. 

 The type is deposited in the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Leptysma Stal. 



Leptysma Stal, Recens. Orthopt., I, pp. 42, 85 (1873); Bruner, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XXX, p. 657 (1906); Ib., Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, p. 71 (1911). 



86. Leptysma dorsalis (Burmeister)? 



Mesops dorsalis Burmeister, Handb. Ent., II, p. 610 (1838). 

 Leptysma dorsalis Bruner, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, p. 72 (1911). 



Habitat. — There is a single male specimen of the genus Leptysma 



