Bruner: Tropical American Tettigonoidea, 327 



60. Phylloptera linea-purpurea sp. nov. 



Related to P. picta Brunner, but much smaller and of different color. 

 Rather below the medium in size, somewhat robust, and with sub- 

 corneous shining tegmina. 



Front smooth and rounded, nearly perpendicular, the sides a little 

 compressed, roughened; vertex acuminate, sulcate. Pronotum with 

 the disc flat, roundly emarginate in front, rounded behind, in the 

 middle provided with a depressed longitudinal line; lateral carinae 

 fla\ous, blunt, but continuous to the front border; lateral lobes 

 perpendicular, higher than long. Elytra sub-corneous, rather closely 

 jiunctulate, shining, the veins of the costal area very obscure, widest 

 before the middle. Anterior femora below two-spined in fronts 

 intermediate three-spined and the posterior many-spined externally 

 and three-spined internally. Mesosternal lobes acuminate, the meta- 

 sternal lobes rounded behind. 



General color of pronotum, tegmina, and body above greenish 

 testaceous. Lateral carinae of pronotum flavous in continuation of 

 the humeral angle and dorsal margin of the tegmina, on the disc of 

 pronotum bordered internally with a vinaceous line, which continues 

 anteriorly along the sides of the occiput to the hind margin of the 

 eyes. Tegmina punctulate, marmorate and maculate with ferrugi- 

 nous, purple, and brown. Of the larger maculations there are six, 

 three located along the ulnar vein, one on the upper fork of the radial 

 branch, and two on the lower fork. 



Length of body, cT, 21 mm., of pronotum, 4.75 mm., of tegmina,. 

 2% mm., width of tegmina, 8.5 mm., length of hind femora, 15 mm. 



Habitat. — The single specimen now before me comes from the~ 

 "Province del Sara, Bolivia," where it was taken at an elevation of 

 450 meters above sea-level. (J. Steinbach, collector.) The type 

 belongs to the insect collections of the Carnegie Museum. 



61. Phylloptera spinulosa Brunner? 



Phylloptera spinulosa Brunner, Monog. Phaneropt., pp. 309, 314 (1878); lb.. 

 Addit. Monog. Phaneropt., p. 159 (1891). 



Habitat. — There are specimens at hand from both Chapada and 

 Corumba, Brazil, which appear in some regards to be this species 

 according to the synoptical table given in Brunner's Additamenta. 

 They were taken by H. H. Srnith, but the reference is only made by 

 me provisionally. 



