Bruner : South Amkricam Tkiriuiu/E. 101 



Habitat. — Four specimens, two from Para and iwo from Benevides, 

 Brazil, collected in July by H. H. Smith. A nymph, apparently of this 

 species, also from Benevides, is before me. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Genus Gladiotettix Hancock. 



Nephele Bolivar. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., XXXI, 1887. 252. 

 GladioU'ltix Hamcock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, igo6, footnote 40. 



Gladiotettix turgida (Bolivar). 



Nephele turgida Boliv.\r, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., XXXI, 1887, 252-253. 

 Gladioletlix turgida HANCOCK, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 40. 



Habitat. — Brazil, Upper Amazon, Peru. 



The H. H. Smith collection contains specimens taken at Para and 

 Benevides, Brazil. They were collected during the month of July. Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Gladiotettix iinicristata Hancock. 



Nephele iinicristata H.\ncock, MS., Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 40. 

 Gladiotettix unicristata H.A.NCOCK, loc. cit., footnote. 



The annexed description was prepared by Dr. J. L. Hancock and sub- 

 mitted to the present writer for insertion in a paper on British Guiana 

 Orthoptera which has not been published as yet. The species should be 

 credited to him in bibliographic references. 



"Characters. — A well marked species, cf, body moderately robust, 

 strongly rugoso-granulose, and provided with tubercles; color fusco-fer- 

 ruginous, legs somewhat interspersed with lighter ferruginous, apical half 

 of the tarsal articles fuscous. Face nearly vertical; verte.x very wide, 

 at the front margin barely more than twice the breadth of one of the 

 eyes, crown very much shortened, the lateral margins little convergent for- 

 ward, median carina obsolete with the exception of a barely elevated 

 tubercle anteriorly; on either side the anterior half of the vertex fossulate, 

 the front transverse!}- carina te and truncate, viewed from in front barely 

 concave, from abo\e not ad\anced so far as the eyes,, outwardly on either 

 side next to the eyes the frontal carinse little oblique, ele\ated tuberculiform ; 

 frontal costa viewed in profile lightly protuberant but flattened, viewed 

 from in front the rami widely separated between the antennae and parallel. 

 Eyes prominent, globose, viewed from above somewhat reniform and sub- 

 stylate; ocelli minute, placed between the inferior fourth of the eyes; 

 antennae situated distinctly below the ventro-anterior border of the eyes, 

 the distance between them equal to about that from the eyes; last two 

 articles of palpi strongly depresso-ampliate. Pronotum anteriorly trun- 



