318 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



fastigium of the vertex rather prominent, but short, depressed, sulcate, 

 tapering anteriorly, the two sides terminating in rounded tubercles, 

 touching the two much larger, widely rounded, and elevated tubercles 

 of the fastigium of the front; eyes large, globular, widely separated. 

 Pronotum flat above, or even a little concave, its lateral carinae promi- 

 nent, crenulate; anterior margin roundly emarginate, behind rounded; 

 lateral lobes about as long as high. Tegmina coriaceous, smooth. 

 Hind femora compressed, not robust, hind and intermediate tibiae 

 compressed and rather strongly dilated basally. Anterior tibiae 

 with the auditory opening on the front side sub-linear, behind wide 

 open. Subgenital plate rather small and tapering, tricarinate, the 

 middle keel sharp, the lateral ones heavy and blunt, apex truncate, 

 the styles short, conical; cerci heavy at their base, evenly tapering, 

 bowed upwards, the apex terminating in a piceous tooth, or hook. 



General color yellowish green, the lower side and limbs paler. 

 Tubercles of the front and upper margin of the lateral lobes of the 

 pronotum, base of anterior and middle tibiae and tips of their femora 

 lavender-tinted, two basal antennal joints and eyes ferruginous; 

 pronotal carina?, shoulders, basal portion of costal border, and pos- 

 terior radial vein of tegmina testaceous. There are also scattered 

 over the tegmina a number of small, inconspicuous, raised papillae, 

 which are likewise testaceous. 



Length of body, cf, 24 mm., of pronotum, 6.5 mm., width, 5.5 mm., 

 length of tegmina, 40 mm., width, 12 mm., length of hind femora, 

 18 mm. 



Ilahitat. — The only specimen available, the type, comes from the 

 Province del Sara, Bolivia, where it was taken by J. Steinbach during 

 December at an elevation above sea-level of 350 meters. It is the 

 property of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Anaulacomera Stal. 



Anaulacomera Stal, Vct.-Akad. Forh. XXX, (4) pp. 41, 43 (1873); lb., Recens. 



Orth., II, pp. 16, 35 (1874); Brunner, Mon. Phaneropt., pp. 27. 277 (1878); 



lb., Addit. Mon. Phaneropt., pp. 20, 140 (1891); Sauss. & Pict., Biol. Cent.- 



Amer., Orth. I, p. 340 (1897). 

 CEcella Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. XX, p. 535 (1890). 



The present genus without doubt is the most extensive of the family 

 Phaneropteridae, Most of its representatives are tropical South 

 American and seem to be well represented in the present collections. 

 Only a portion of the specimens at hand have been studied with the 



