Bruner: Tropical American Tettigonoidea. 301 



Habitat. — The type, a male, and only specimen at hand, bears the 

 label " Province del Sara, Bolivia, 350 meters, J. Steinbach, November, 



1913-" 



The type is in the Carnegie Museum. 



5. Oxyprorella modesta sp. nov. 



Male. — About the same size as the preceding, but slenderer and 

 darker colored and with the disc of the thorax beautiful apple-green, 

 occiput short, the vertex also short, excavated anteriorly between the 

 eyes, the fastigium not prominent. Head small, tapering below. 

 Eyes large, prominent. Pronotum moderately elongate, the disc 

 remarkably flat and smooth, bordered throughout with a smooth, 

 slightly elevated ridge or carina. Lateral lobes slightly longer than 

 high, the anterior margin roundly lobate below, lower edge and 

 hind margins also broadly rounded. Tegmina with the margins 

 nearly parallel, the apex obliquely truncate and with the venation 

 something like that in the preceding species. Anterior and middle 

 femora five-spined below, the hind pair seven-spined externally, two- 

 spined internally. Last ventral segment of abdomen of male of 

 moderate size, a little longer than wide, tapering, the apex truncate 

 between short lateral blunt teeth. Cerci curved as in the preceding 

 species, a little flattened from above on their apical half, and termi- 

 nating in an acute tooth. 



General color dull wood-brown more or less mottled with blotches 

 of darker color on the tegmina and exposed portion of the wings. 

 Fastigium of the front and excised portion of the vertex whitish; 

 top of head, disc of pronotum, and immediate base of tegmina above 

 green; border of the disc of the pronotum dull ivory. Dorsum of 

 abdomen tinged with green. 



Length of body, cf, 13 mm., of pronotum, 3.6 mm., of tegmina, 

 21.5 mm., width of tegmina, 3.5 mm., length of hind femora, 15 mm. 



Habitat. — Rio de Janeiro, October (H. H. Smith). The type alone 

 is at hand. It is in the collection of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 

 It would fall in the table of species between zebrata and dives. 



Genus Dysonia White. 

 Dysonia White, Richardson's Mus. Nat. Hist., II, p. 244 (1862); Kirby, Syn. Cat, 



Orth., II, p. 411 (1906). 

 Valna Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B. M.. II, p. 357 (1869). 

 Aphidna Stal, Recens. Orth., II, pp. 13. 28 (1874). 



