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



minutely bilobate. The type presents a light marking covering 

 the disc of the pronotiim. 



Entire length of body, female, 6 mm. ; pronotum 5 mm. ; posterior 

 femora 3'3 mm. 



One example, from "America iEquatorialis," in the 

 University Museum, Oxford. 



Genus Apotettix, Hancock. 



1. A. x>roxwms, Hanc, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 237- 

 238, 1907. 



These examples have long wing.«, the l)ody rufescent, the posterior 

 femora striate longitudinally below with fnscons, the tibiiB black, 

 but jjale anuTilate. The pronotal process extends backward beyond 

 the hind femoral apices. Tliis form differs from the short-wing type 

 form, and may bear the distinctive name, A. j>roximus apposltus, 

 form nov. 



Entire lengtli of body, male, 12 mm.; pronotum 10 mm.; jwsterior 

 femora 5 mm. 



Two male examples from Cacbabi, Ecuador, collected 

 by Rosenberg; presented by Malcolm Burr to the Uni- 

 versity Museum, Oxford," 



Section BATEACHIDE^E, Bolivar. 



Genus Halmatettix, nov, 

 Hesembling Batrachidea, Serville, but differing in having the 

 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, 

 frontal costa moderately sulcate, the rami slightly incrassate, in 

 profile distinctly advanced beyond the eyes, the facial carina above 

 moderately compressed ; antennae inserted barely below the inferior 

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

 bnt somewhat prominent ; maxillary paljoi 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 carina) slightly evident, subparallel, 



