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strongly hirsute, elongate, bent a trifle downwards at middle and 

 bowed, the apex a little enlarged. 



General color yellowish green, the tegmina tinged at base and along 

 the anterior and posterior margins with vinaceous or ruddy lavender. 



Length of body, 17 mm., of pronotum, 4.15 mm., of tegmina, 17.5 

 mm., width of tegmina, 6 mm., length of hind femora, 16 mm. 



Habitat. — A single male, the type, was taken by J. Steinbach during 

 the month of October. It came from the " Prov. del Sara, Boli\'ia, " 

 where it occurred at an elevation above sea-level of 350 meters. 

 Like the former, this specimen is the property of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Phylloptera Serville. 



Phylloptera Serville, Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII, p. 142 (1831); lb., Hist. Orthopt., p. 

 402 (1839); BuRMEiSTER, Haudb. Ent., II, p. 691 (1838); Brunner, Monog. 

 Phaneropt., pp. 28, 307 (1878); lb. Addit. Monog. Phaneropt., pp. 21, 156 

 (1891); Saussure et PiCTET, Biol. Cent.-Amer., I, pp. 351 (1897). 



The present genus is typically tropical American. The three dozen 

 or more species, which have been referred to it, vary greatly in size 

 and general appearance, as may be gathered from a reference to 

 Brunner's Monograph of the Phaneropteridce and his Additamenta 

 thereto. Undoubtedly many more forms exist, which remain to be 

 made known. In fact the present collection contains a number, 

 which do not appear to fit in Brunner's last synoptical key for the 

 separation of the forms; but, until all of the other species described 

 since — a dozen or more of them — are synoptically treated, it is difficult 

 to place new forms definitely. Specimens of two species are at hand, 

 however, which on account of their marked characteristics have been 

 determined as probably new and deserving of description. 



56. Phylloptera quinque-maculata sp. nov. 

 Related to maculosa of Burmeister, from which it differs in its 

 considerably smaller size as well as in other characters here noted. 

 Body, and especially the head, pleura, and legs, hirsute. Anterior 

 tibiae plainly sulcate above, armed on this side only with the external 

 apical spine, the intermediate pair likewise armed; anterior and middle 

 femora both spined below on their anterior margin, the hind pair 

 armed as in maculosa. Pronotum with the posterior third of the 

 disc cinereous, margined with dark purple merging into black. Elytra 

 broadly rounded behind, the apex roundly acuminate, the disc pro- 

 vided with five whitish twin maculations surrounded by purple, three 



