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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.44. 
  

  

  ISCHNOPTERA 
  PAMPACONAS. 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  A 
  medium 
  sized 
  blackish 
  red-brown 
  species 
  apparently 
  differing 
  

   from 
  any 
  described 
  species 
  recorded 
  from 
  Peru 
  or 
  surrounding 
  

   regions. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Size 
  medium; 
  body 
  depressed; 
  form 
  elongate, 
  the 
  closed 
  

   wings 
  surpassing 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  by 
  fully 
  a 
  third 
  their 
  length 
  ; 
  

   head 
  not 
  quite 
  concealed 
  beneath 
  the 
  pronotum; 
  ocelli 
  large 
  and 
  

   situated 
  sublaterally 
  next 
  the 
  inner-upper 
  margin 
  of 
  antennal 
  scrobse 
  

   next 
  the 
  eye; 
  interocellar 
  space 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interocular 
  space, 
  

   which 
  is 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  one 
  eye; 
  antennae 
  covered 
  

   with 
  fine 
  short 
  hairs. 
  Pronotum 
  narrowly 
  rounded 
  in 
  front 
  and 
  

   broadly 
  rounded 
  behind, 
  the 
  sides 
  deflexed, 
  the 
  disk 
  dimpled 
  on 
  each 
  

   side 
  of 
  the 
  middle. 
  Elytra 
  long 
  and 
  slender, 
  semi-coriaceous, 
  the 
  

   veins 
  fairly 
  distinct, 
  the 
  costal 
  field 
  long 
  and 
  narrow; 
  wings 
  m 
  repose 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  teginma, 
  transparent, 
  the 
  anterior 
  field 
  apically 
  a 
  little 
  

   infuscated; 
  ulnar 
  vein 
  with 
  two 
  complete 
  branches 
  extending 
  to 
  the 
  

   apex 
  and 
  with 
  seven 
  or 
  eight 
  incomplete 
  veins; 
  there 
  are 
  more 
  than 
  

   a 
  dozen 
  costal 
  veins, 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  forked 
  and 
  many 
  of 
  

   them 
  apically 
  somewhat 
  swollen. 
  Legs 
  slender, 
  the 
  anterior 
  femora 
  

   armed 
  beneath 
  on 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  with 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  stout 
  spines 
  

   on 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  followed 
  on 
  apical 
  part 
  by 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  fine 
  short 
  ones; 
  

   arolia 
  between 
  the 
  claws 
  very 
  small 
  and 
  inconspicuous, 
  often 
  hard 
  

   to 
  see. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  considerably 
  produced 
  and 
  apically 
  rounded; 
  

   subgenital 
  plate 
  broad 
  and 
  posteriorly 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  entire; 
  cerci 
  

   stout 
  and 
  long, 
  finely 
  haired. 
  

  

  General 
  color 
  a 
  very 
  dark-reddish 
  brown, 
  the 
  pronotum 
  almost 
  

   uniformly 
  black 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  light 
  yellowish, 
  as 
  are 
  also 
  the 
  mouth 
  

   and 
  palpi. 
  The 
  ocelli 
  are 
  a 
  transparent 
  reddish, 
  the 
  antennse 
  brown 
  

   and 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  of 
  elytra 
  is 
  anteriorly 
  a 
  little 
  lighter. 
  The 
  

   elytra 
  are 
  posteriorly 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  transparent 
  and 
  thus 
  less 
  dark. 
  

  

  Length, 
  total 
  from 
  head 
  to 
  end 
  of 
  elytra, 
  18 
  mm.; 
  pronotum, 
  3 
  

   mm.; 
  elytra, 
  14 
  mm.; 
  width, 
  pronotum, 
  3.5 
  mm.; 
  elytra 
  at 
  widest 
  

   pomt, 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Tyjye. 
  — 
  One 
  female 
  Pampaconas 
  River, 
  August. 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  15047, 
  

   U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  this 
  species 
  which 
  Bolivar 
  recorded 
  from 
  Peru 
  ^ 
  

   as 
  /. 
  consdbrina. 
  

  

  ISCHNOPTERA 
  IGNOBILIS 
  Saussure, 
  

  

  One 
  female, 
  Pampaconas 
  River, 
  August. 
  

  

  » 
  Anal. 
  Soc. 
  Espan. 
  Uist. 
  Nat., 
  vol. 
  10, 
  ISSl; 
  p. 
  400. 
  

  

  