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The apical cereal tooth and the more transverse plicate vein readily 

 xlistinguish the males of this species from those of horellii. The range 

 of this species is from Conimba, Matto Grosso, Brazil, south to Sapiicay. 



HYPEROPHORA IJiunncr. 

 1S7S. Iliipcrophora Brunnor, Monogr. der Phancropt., pp. 10, 125. 

 Type. — //. hrasilicnsis Brunner. 

 Hyperophora brasiliensis Brunner. 



1S7S. II[i/peropliora] Brasilicm^is Brunner, Monogr. dor Pliancropt., p. 126. 

 [Brazil.] 



December, 1904, :March, 1905; three males, two females. 



There is considerable variation in these individuals in the depth of 

 the coloration of the tegmina; in several specimens the green being 

 very much richer and deeper than in the others. The male eercus of 

 this species is represented by fig. 1. 



This species ranges from Brazil to Buenos Ayres, Argentina. 

 ♦Hyperophora cerviformis n. sp. 



Type: o^ ; Sapucay, Paraguay. February 27, 1905. (William 

 Foster.) [Hebard Collection.] 



Figs. 1-5. — Male eercus of species of Hyperophora (viewed from the dorsum). 

 1. //. fercsiV/ensis Brunner. 2. H . cerviformis n. sp. 3. //. wo/or lirunner. 

 4. //. gracilis n. sp. 5. H. minor Brunner. (X 8.) 



Allied to //. brasiliensis, but differing in the slenderer form, the more 

 elongate teginina and the shorter cerci, which are moderately recurved 

 distad, and with the proximal portion of the median process elongate 

 andspined. 



Size medium; form distinctly elongate, slender, compressed. Head 

 short and deep, ver}' considerably broader than the pronotum; occiput 

 rounded; vertex moderately declivent, fastigium narrow, compressed, 

 low, margins elevated, depressed mesad, at the extreme apex not 

 touching the frontal fastigium which is trigonal ; eyes ovate^ prominent; 

 antennai rather thick, fragile, not perfect in the type, proximal joint 



