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General color grass-green, eyes castaneous; face testaceous; apex 

 of ovipositor more or less piceous. 



Length of body, 9 , 23.5 mm., of pronotum, 5.65 mm., of tegmina, 

 35 mm., width of tegmina, 10 mm., length of hind femora, 18 mm., 

 of ovipositor, 5.5 mm. 



Habitat. — The type and only specimen examined is contained in a 

 collection made at Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, West Indies. It was 

 taken during the month of June, and is in the Carnegie Museum, 

 belonging to Ace. No. 4656. 



Genus Orophus Saussure. 

 Orophns Saussure, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), XI, p. 204 (1859); Walker, Cat. 



Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., II, p. 381 (1869); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, p. 480 



(1906). 

 Microcentrum Scudder (in part), Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., VII, p. 446 (1862); 



Stal, Recens. Orth., II, p. 18 (1874); Brunner, Monog. Phaneropt., pp. 29, 



333 (1878); lb., Addit. Monog. Phaneropt., pp. 22, 179 (1891). 



The genus Orophus contains more than two dozen recognized 

 species, all of which belong to the tropical regions of America. At 

 least two or three of the species, however, also occur in the temperate 

 regions of North America nearly or quite to the northern border of 

 the United States. 



70. Orophus angustatus (Brunner). 

 Microcenlriim angusiatiim Brunner, Mon. Phaneropt., pp. 334, 335 (1878); lb. 



Addit. Mon. Phaneropt., p. 179 (1891); Saussure & Pictet, Biol. Cent.-Amer., 



Orth., I, pp. 357. 358 (1898). 

 Orophus angustatus Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, p. 480 (1906). 



Habitat. — There are specimens of this species at hand, which were 

 taken at Bogota, Colombia, and Bahia, Brazil (H. H. Smith), and 

 others coming from the Province del Sara, Bolivia (J. Steinbach). 

 The latter were collected during the months of February, November, 

 and December at a locality with an elevation of 350 meters above sea- 



71. Orophus lanceolatus (Burmeister). 

 Phylloptera lanceolata Burmeister, Handb. Ent. II, p. 692 (1838). 

 Microcentrum lanceolatum Brunner, Mon. Phaneropt., pp. 334, 335, PL 7. fig- 97. 



a, b (1878); /&., Addit. Mon. Phaneropt., p. 179 (1891). 

 Orophus lanceolatus Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, p. 480 (1906). 



For further synonymy see Kirby, I. c. 



Habitat. — Rio dos Velhos, Minas Gcraes, Brazil, and Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil. A pair, cf and 9 , were taken at the last named locality by 

 Dr. W. J. Holland. 



