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8. CERAIA SIMILIS, new species. 



Near C. dentata Brunner and falls next to it in the table of species. 

 The cerci of the male are about four times as long as the basal width, 

 apically depressed and armed with a sharp incurved black tooth and 

 furnished on the inner side beyond the middle with a thick projec- 

 tion; subgenital plate of male elongate, tapering, apically cleft and 

 furnished with styles as long as the middle width of the plate; sub- 

 genital plate of female considerably produced, tapering, the narrow 

 tip subtruncate, very slightly notched; ovipositor strongly upcurved, 

 the tip rounded, tine!}' serrate near the apex below and above for the 

 greater part of its length. 



Length, pronotum, male and female 5-5.5 mm.; elytra, male 30-31 

 mm. , female 30-32 mm. ; posterior femora, male 21 mm., female 22 mm. ; 

 ovipositor, 7 mm. 



Type.—C^t. No. 9626, U.S.N.M. 



Five males, seven females. February, March, and April. 



g. CERAIA CORNUTOIDES, new species. 



Allied to C. cornuta Brunner and falls next to it in the table of 

 species. The lobes of the anal segment of the male, however, are but 

 one-sixth as long as the pronotum instead of being longer, as described 

 in coriiuta. The tarsi are scarcely inf uscated and the cerci of the male 

 are blunt and apically forked, each fork apically pointed. The ovi- 

 positor is long and apically rounded. The antenna? are basally annu- 

 lated with black, and the subgenital plate of the male is as described 

 in cornuta. One female has the antennje unicolorous, the black bands 

 being obliterated. It ma}^ represent another species. 



Length, pronotum, male and female 6 mm.; elytra, male 34 mm., 

 female 38-39 mm.; posterior femora, male 27 mm., female 27-30 mm.; 

 ovipositor, 11 nun. 



Type.—C2ii. No. 9627, U.S.N.M. 



One male, three females. December, January, and February. 



lo. SCAPHURA VIGORSII Kirby. 



One female. Januar}'. 



This is probably the same species as that mentioned b}'' Giglio- 

 Tos from Paraguay but is a little larger than the measurements given 

 b}' Brunner. The anterior tibia? are armed above with three spines 

 and the middle ones with several on both margins. Thus it is an 

 aberrant member of this genus as defined by Brunner. 



