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of these maculations following the ulnar vein and the other two 

 located on the forks of the branch of the posterior radial. The branch 

 of the radial is given off at about its middle and forks on its basal 

 third. 



General color pale green, the legs, and especially the tibiae, closely 

 flecked with ferruginous and fuscous dots about the roots of the pale 

 hairs mentioned above. Under side testaceous. Ovipositor short 

 and very robust, strongly bent upward, the apex acuminate. 



Length of body, cf , 19 mm., 9 , 20 mm.; of pronotum, cf , 5 mm., 

 9 , 5.5 mm.; of tegmina, cf , 31 mm., 9 , 35 mm.; width of tegmina, 

 cf, 10 mm., 9, 12 mm.; length of hind femora, cf, 16 mm., 9, 17 

 mm.; of ovipositor, 5 mm. 



Habitat. — The male and female types, as well as quite a series of 

 other specimens were taken at Chapada, near Cuyaba, Matto Grosso, 

 Brazil, during the months of June to August. (H. H. Smith col- 

 lector.) The types are in the Carnegie Museum. 



57. Phylloptera ovalifolia Burmeister. 



Phylloptera ovalifolia Burmeister, Handb. Ent., II, p. 693 (1838); Brunner, 

 Monog. Phaneropt., pp. 309, 311, pi. 6, fig. 89, a-c (1878); Bolivar, Viaje al 

 Pacif., Ins., p. 56 (1884); Saussure et Pictet, Biol. Cent.-Amer., I, p. 352 (1897). 



Phylloptera pun ctum- album Serville, Ins. Orth., p. 407, no. 5 (1839). 



Phylloptera viridicata Serville, I. c. no. 6 (1839). 



Habitat. — A number of this rather generally distributed and some- 

 what variable species are at hand. They come from Rio de Janeiro 

 (H. H. Smith). 



58. Phylloptera roseo-inflata Brunner? 



Phylloptera roseo-inflata Brunner, Addit. Monog. Phaneropt., pp. 157, 16 (1891). 

 Habitat. — Several specimens of what I doubtfully refer to Brunner's 

 P. roseo-inflata are found among the material collected by H. H. Smith 

 at Chapada, near Cuyaba, Matto Grosso, Brazil. Both sexes are 

 represented. 



59. Phylloptera famula Brunner. 



Phylloptera famula Brunner, Monog. Phaneropt., pp. 309, 313 (1878); 76., Addit. 

 Moncg. Phaneropt., p. 158 (1891). 



Habitat. — Several specimens of both sexes of a small species of the 

 genus coming from Corumba, Brazil, are referred here with doubt. 

 They were collected by H. H. Smith. Other specimens are also at 

 hand coming from Bolixian localities. These latter were taken by 

 J. Steinbach. 



