406 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Of moderate size. Body slender. General color of legs, tegmina, 

 and wings pallid-testaceous tinged with cinereous. Head a little 

 wider than the anterior edge of the pronotum, the eyes prominent, 

 the vertex a little depressed, and gently sulcate anteriorly, in the male 

 mostly black, in the female varied with testaceous and ferruginous, 

 the front below the antennae and the eyes of both sexes glossy black, 

 save in the female, where the base of the clypeus is transversely 

 fiavous. Pronotum short, broad, evenly expanding to the base, the 

 anterior margin and lateral lobes largely piceous, the disc irregularly 

 variegated with fuscous; near the hind margin and parallel with it 

 is a series of rounded black or dark brown dots, from the centers of 

 which emanate stiff dusky bristles, the median area provided with a 

 longitudinal pallid line. Tegmina of both sexes a little longer than 

 the abdomen, those of the female with five longitudinal veins on the 

 dorsal and three on the lateral field, on the latter a couple of patches 

 of fuscous. Abdomen varying from dirty testaceous to dull black. 

 Hind femora robust, their outer face sometimes having a narrow 

 longitudinal fuscous line along the middle. Ovipositor robust, short, 

 the apex acuminate, the edges and carinae finely crenulate, the trans- 

 verse notch located at about the middle. Anterior tibial openings 

 rather large, elliptical. 



Length of body with wings, cf and 9 , 13 mm.; of tegmina, d^ , 6.5 

 mm.; 9 , 6 mm.; of hind femora, 6 mm.; of ovipositor, 2 mm. 



Habitat. — Middle Argentina. The type is in the collection of the 

 author. 



80. Cyrtoxipha conspersa sp. nov. 



Above the average in size, a pale cinereous insect in which the legs, 

 head, pronotum, and tegmina are conspersed with fuscous spots and 

 dots. 



General color dirty grayish fiavous, the antennae distantly fasciate 

 with fuscous. Head of moderate size, a little broader than the 

 anterior portion of the pronotum, the eyes large and prominent, 

 separated by a space about equal to their longest diameter, the vertex 

 depressed in the form of a broad arcuate transverse valley, followed 

 anteriorly by a ridge, which separates this region from the front; 

 antennal pits large and profound, occupying fully three-fourths of the 

 space between the lower half of the eyes; rostrum prominent, studded 

 with several coarse downwardly bent bristles, the ocelli small. An- 



