424 Dr. J. L. Hancock's FuMhcr Studies of 



minutely bilnbaLe. The ty])e presents a liglit marking covering 

 the disc of tlie pronotum. 



Entire length of body, female, mm.; pronotum 5 mm.; posterior 

 femora 3"3 mm. 



One example, from "America iEquatorialis," in the 

 University Museum, O.xford. 



Genus Apotkttix, Hancock. 



]. A. iiroximvs, Hanc, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 237- 

 238, 1907. 



These examples have long wing?, the body rufeseent, the posterior 

 femora striate longitudinally below with fuscous, the tibine black, 

 but i)ale aiuiulate. The pronotal jirocess extends backward beyond 

 the hind femoral apices. This form dilfcrs from the short-wing type 

 f(n'm, and may bear tlie distinctive name, A. ■proximuH appositiis, 

 form nov. 



Entire length of b(Kly, mule, 12 mm.; jironotum 10 mm.; posterior 

 femora 5 mm. 



Two male examples from Cachabi, Ecuador, collected 

 by Rosenberg ; presented by Malcolm Burr to the Uni- 

 versity Museum, Oxford. 



Section BATRACHWE.E, Bolivar. 



Genus Halmatettix, nov. 

 Resembling Batrachidea, Serville, but dilfering in having tlie 

 pronotum compresso-cristate, in the absence of the posterior elytral 

 sinuses, in the apterous body, and in the unarmed femoral 

 apices. Body granulate ; face slightly oblique, crown covered 

 by the pronotum ; vertex wider than one of the eyes, truncate 

 anteriorly, bearing small carinulate lobes on each side next to the 

 eyes, and distinct supraocular lobes behind ; median carina wanting, 

 i'rontil costa moderately sulcate, the rami slightly incrassate, in 

 profile distinctly advanced beyond the eyes, the facial carina above 

 moderately compressed ; antenn;e inserted barely below the inferior 

 margin of the eyes ; eyes sub-conoidal in profile, of moderate size, 

 but somewhat prominent ; maxillary palpi having the apical articles 

 strongly dilated and pale coloured. Pronotum tectiform, the dorsum 

 compresso-cristate, arcuate forward, posterior process not reaching to 

 abdominal apex, the anterior margin strongly acuminate, produced 

 over the head and strongly uncinate ; median carina compressed, 

 thin and entire ; prozonal carinas slightly evident, subparallel. 



