422 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



to permit of placing it there. The second specimen is decidedly 

 larger, and seems to differ sufficiently from the described forms to 

 warrants its description as a new species. 



97. Paroecanthus picipes sp. nov. 



Related to both P. cinerascens Walker and P. vicinus Chopard, 

 but larger. Head, pronotum, and the greater part of the hind femora 

 fulvous or dark ferruginous; the anterior and middle legs together 

 with the apex of the hind femora and the hind tibiae piceous, or pitch- 

 black; other parts dirty testaceous. Head of moderate size, about 

 as wide as the front edge of the pronotum; the eyes fairly prominent; 

 the front rostrate, a little narrower than the broad basal antennal 

 segment; the posterior ocelli large, the anterior one very small, almost 

 obliterated, situated in a slight pit at the very apex. Pronotum a 

 little longer than its anterior width, evenly broadening towards the 

 base, the disc furnished with a median longitudinal impressed line 

 and two lateral triangular patches as in P. vicinus; the front margin 

 roundly truncate, the base subangulate, not sinuose. Tegmina large, 

 a little longer than the abdomen, the tympanum a little longer than 

 wide, subangulate both in front and behind; the oblique veins five 

 in number, the mediastin vein twelve-branched. Wings caudate. 

 Legs short, the anterior tibiae inflated basally, and perforated on both 

 sides in a similar fashion as figured for P. vicinus. 



Length of body, cf , 17 mm., of pronotum, 2.9 mm., width, 4.15 

 mm., length of tegmina, 15 mm., of wings, 19 mm., of hind femora, 

 8.5 mm., of hind tibiae, 7 mm. 



Habitat. — The type and only specimen at hand comes from Quatro 

 Ojos, Dept. Sta. Cruz, Bolivia, where it was taken at an elevation of 

 three hundred meters above sea-level, by J. Steinbach. It is in the 

 collection of the Carnegie Museum and belongs to Accession No. 5059. 



Genus Hapithus Uhler. 



HapUhus Uhler, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad., II (1864), p. 546; Kirby, Syn. Cat. 



Orth., II (1906), p. 97. 

 Apilhis Saussure, Miss. Mex., Orth. (1874), P- 4^6. 

 Apilhes Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, XXV (1878), p. 603; Biol. Cent.-Amer. 



Orth., I (1897), p. 265; Blatciiley, Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 1891, pp. 128, 139. 

 Labussa W./vlker, Cat. Deim. Salt. B. M., I (1869), p. 75. 



The genus Hapithus, which is entirely American in its distribution, 

 contains about a dozen species. These are distributed from southern 



