Bruner : South American Tetrigid/e. Ill 



Otumba scapularis Morse. 



Otumba scapularis Morse, Biol. Centr.-Am., Orthopt., II, 1900, 7-8, fig. — 

 Hancock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 44. 



Habitat. — Recorded from Nicaragua only, but undoubtedly occurring 

 throughout Costa Rica and Panama as well. 



Otumba dentata Hancock. 

 Otumba dentata Hancock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 44. 



Habitat. — Costa Rica, Central i\merica, and quite likely extending 

 farther southward into northern South America. 



Otumba spinifrons (St^l). 



Tetrix spinifrons St.\l, Freg. Eugen. Resa., Ins. Orthopt., i860, 346. 

 Teltix spinifrons Stal, Recens. Orthopt., I, 1883, 151. 

 Metrodora spinifrons Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., XXI, 1887, 249. 

 Otumba spinifrons Hancock, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 44. 



Habitat. — Brazil. A single individual contained in the H. H. Smith 

 collection from Santarem is referred here. Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Otumba peruviana Bruner. 

 Otumba peruviana Bruner, MS. 



This species was represented among other Acridids collected in Peru 

 by Professor Nicholas Iconnicoff of the University of Moscow, Russia, 

 and submitted to the author of the present paper for determination. The 

 full description will appear shortly in some European publication. In 

 the meanwhile it may be recognized b}^ the characterization given in the 

 accompanying synoptic table of the species of the genus. 



Habitat. — A point about 50 miles south and east of Cerro de Pasco, 

 Peru, at an elevation of 1,800 meters above sea level. Zoological Museum 

 of the University of Moscow. 



Otumba lobata Hancock. 

 Otumba lobata H.^^ncock, MS., Genera Insectorum, fasc. 48, 1906, 44. 

 The following is Dr. Hancock's description of this insect: 

 "Characters. — cf; Body moderately small, granulose, color fusco-fer- 

 rugineous, sides of pronotum and legs lighter, slightly clouded with fuscous, 

 hind femora above yellow, below fuscous, the hind tibiae dark with light 

 annulation near the knees; elytra fuscous, the posterior half marked by 

 large oblique yellow macula. Head little compresso-elevated ; face ob- 

 lique; vertex little narrower than one of the eyes, distinctly longer than 



