94 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



South America rather than with the faunal areas of adjoining portions 



of North America. 



Phyllotettix westwoodi Hancock. 



Choriphyllum westwoodi Hancock, Tettigidse of N. Am., 1902, 42, pi. i, fig. 2. 

 Phyllotettix westwoodi Hancock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 12. 



Habitat. — Like the preceding, this insect comes from the island of 

 Jamaica. 



As indicated by Hancock in the table given on page 42 of his Tettigidse 

 of North America the present species is separable from the other two forms 

 by the lobate upper carina of the hind femora. 



Phyllotettix rhombeus (Baker). 



Cicada rhombea Baker, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., LIV, 1764, 55, pi. 6. 

 Memhracis rhombea Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1767, 704. 

 Acridium (Hymenotes) rhombeiim de Hann, Bijdr., 1842, 165, pi. 12, fig. 11. 

 Choriphyllum rhombeum Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., V, 1871, 845. 

 Phyllotettix rhombeus Hancock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 12. 

 Habitat. — Jamaica and Cuba, West Indies. 



Genus Choriphyllum Serville. 



Choriphyllum Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orthopt., 1839, 754. 

 Hymenotes Stal. 

 Chorophyllum Fieber. 



This genus, like the preceding, is confined in its distribution to the 



West Indies. 



Synopsis of the Species of Choriphyllum. 



A. The leaf-like median carina of the pronotum highest over the head. 



sagrai Serville. 



AA. The leaf-like median carina of the pronotum most prominent near its middle. 



b. Body small (9.7 mm.) ; the highest pointof the pronotum at the middle. 



saussurei Bolivar. 



bb. Body larger (9, 10 mm.); the highest point of the pronotum a little back 



of the middle plagiatum Walker. 



Choriphylltun sagrai Serville. 



Chorophyllum sagrai Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orthopt., 1839, 755, pi. 8, fig. 5. — 

 Hancock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 18. 



Habitat. — This species has been recorded only from the island of Cuba, 

 West Indies. 



Choriphyllum plagiatum Walker. 



Choriphyllum plagiatum Walker, Cat. Dermapt. Salt. Brit. Mus., V, 1871, 845. 

 — Hancock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 13. 



Habitat. — West Indies, the island of Jamaica. 



