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somewhat flattened, anterior margin broadly rounded, the middle 

 provided with a minute tubercle in the male, but smooth in the female. 

 Tegmina moderately broad and rather long, testaceo-cinereous, 

 feebly marmorate with fuscous, the speculum of the male margined 

 with castaneous. Legs moderately robust; the anterior femora 

 flattened below, the front margin three-spined, intermediate pair 

 four-spined externally, hind pair seven-spined; intermediate tibiae 

 two-spined above near the base. Ovipositor heavy, straight, about 

 one-seventh as broad as long, only gently obliquely truncate, the disc 

 smooth. 



General color ochraco-cinereous, irregularly variegated with fuscous. 

 Front gray or greenish-gray. Pronotum with the disc bordered 

 laterally with piceous vittae, which extend from the front to hind 

 margins. Anterior femora beneath varying from testaceous through 

 oil-green to dull gray. Ovipositor strongly infuscated beyond the 

 middle. \\'ings pallid, the transverse veins a little embrowned. 

 Antennae pale at base, becoming dusky beyond, not annulate. 



Length of body, cf and 9 , 46 mm.; of pronotum, cf , 9-5 mm., 9 , 

 10 mm.; of tegmina, cf, 45 mm., 9 , 50 mm.; width of tegmina, cf , 

 10 mm., 9,11 mm.; length of hind femora, cf , 30 mm., 9 , 31 mm.; 

 of ovipositor, 28 mm. 



Habitat. — Jamaica, West Indies. Several specimens from the 

 collection of Dr. W. J. Holland, (coll. F. Klages) Ace. L. No. 131; 

 and others labeled "Jamaica W. L, Accession No. 2306." The types, 

 cf and 9 , are in the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Anchiptolis Brunner. 



Anchiplolis Brunner, Monog. Pseudophyll., pp. 18, 170 (1895); Saussure & 

 PiCTET, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, p. 421 (1898). 



This is another of the tropical American genera of the Pseudo- 

 phyllidae which seems to be represented in the present collection. 

 According to Kirby's Synonymic Catalogue there have been nine 

 species described. Our specimen does not appear to fit any of these 

 descriptions, and accordingly is presented herewith as new. 



92. Anchiptolis chapadensis sp. nov. 

 Approaching A. pleminioides Brunner, but differing from it in size 

 and color. General color cinereo-testaceous, variegated with brown 

 and fuscous. Front pale gray, margined at sides by a pale testaceous 



