﻿NO. 
  1956. 
  YALE 
  PERUVIAN 
  EXPEDITION, 
  ORTHOPTERA—CAUDELL. 
  349 
  

   BLATTELLA 
  STYLATA. 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  A 
  moderate 
  sized 
  species 
  apparently 
  somewhat 
  allied 
  to 
  B. 
  peruana 
  

   Shelf 
  ord 
  and 
  other 
  species 
  described 
  by 
  that 
  author. 
  In 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  

   characters, 
  however, 
  it 
  differs 
  from 
  those 
  given 
  for 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  described 
  

   forms. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Palpi 
  with 
  the 
  last 
  segment 
  considerably 
  enlarged 
  basally 
  

   and 
  tapering 
  from 
  there 
  to 
  the 
  tip, 
  beneath 
  brownish; 
  antennse 
  

   slender 
  and 
  sparsely 
  hairy. 
  Pronotum 
  truncate 
  posteriorly, 
  anteri- 
  

   orly 
  very 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  the 
  sides 
  broadly 
  translucid. 
  Elytra 
  

   extending 
  distinctly 
  beyond 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  and, 
  except 
  for 
  

   the 
  brownish 
  cross 
  veinlets, 
  nearly 
  uniform 
  in 
  color; 
  wing 
  with 
  eleven 
  

   apically 
  swollen 
  costal 
  veins; 
  ulnar 
  vein 
  five-branched, 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  

   second 
  branches 
  confluent 
  apically. 
  Femora 
  all 
  well 
  armed 
  beneath, 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  ones 
  armed 
  beneath 
  along 
  the 
  entu-e 
  margin, 
  the 
  spines 
  

   growmg 
  r^radually 
  shorter 
  toward 
  the 
  apex. 
  Suprdlanal 
  plate 
  broadly 
  

   transverse, 
  apically 
  entire; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  large, 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  

   broad 
  and 
  apically 
  prolonged 
  at 
  each 
  side 
  as 
  a 
  style-like 
  projection, 
  

   which 
  is 
  apically 
  armed 
  with 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  very 
  small 
  but 
  stout 
  spines, 
  

   and 
  between 
  these 
  projections 
  there 
  are 
  two 
  apically 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   expanded 
  asymmetric 
  organs 
  which 
  are 
  very 
  finely 
  serrate, 
  or 
  spined, 
  

   on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin; 
  cerci 
  long, 
  stout, 
  and 
  strongly 
  depressed. 
  

  

  Color 
  clear 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  with 
  some 
  

   small 
  oblique 
  black 
  dashes 
  and 
  the 
  cross 
  veins 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  brown; 
  

   abdomen 
  beneath 
  mesially 
  fuscous 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  terminal 
  seg- 
  

   ment 
  and 
  with 
  smaller 
  dark 
  maculations 
  along 
  the 
  margins; 
  the 
  

   tarsal 
  joints, 
  except 
  the 
  first, 
  are 
  partially 
  black 
  and 
  the 
  tibiae 
  on 
  the 
  

   outer 
  side 
  bear 
  conspicuous 
  black 
  spots 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  spines; 
  

   femora 
  unicolorously 
  yellowish 
  brown 
  except 
  for 
  small 
  blackish 
  spots 
  

   at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  ventral 
  spines 
  beneath 
  on 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  hind 
  

   pairs; 
  the 
  face 
  has 
  some 
  blackish 
  lines 
  and 
  dashes. 
  

  

  Length, 
  entire 
  from 
  front 
  of 
  head 
  to 
  end 
  of 
  elytra, 
  14 
  mm.; 
  pro- 
  

   notum, 
  3 
  mm.; 
  elytra, 
  11 
  mm.; 
  width, 
  pronotum, 
  4.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  One 
  female, 
  San 
  Miguel, 
  September 
  1, 
  6,000 
  feet 
  altitude. 
  

   Cat. 
  No. 
  15048, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  PHCETALIA 
  L^VIGATA 
  Beauvois. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  Huadquina, 
  July 
  30, 
  5,000 
  feet 
  altitude; 
  one 
  female, 
  

   same 
  locality, 
  July 
  3 
  1 
  . 
  

  

  EPILAMPRA, 
  species. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  one 
  female, 
  San 
  Miguel, 
  July 
  24, 
  6,000 
  feet 
  altitude; 
  one 
  

   female, 
  Lucma, 
  August 
  7, 
  7,000 
  feet 
  altitude; 
  one 
  female, 
  Pampa- 
  

   conas 
  Eiver, 
  August. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  present 
  state 
  of 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  it 
  

   is 
  scarcely 
  possible 
  to 
  determine 
  these 
  specimens 
  specifically. 
  The 
  

   female 
  specimen 
  from 
  Pampaconas 
  River 
  has 
  the 
  elytra 
  extending 
  to 
  

  

  