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II. PHYLLOPTERA ALLIEDEA, new species. 



Green, in dried .specimens tlie head and pronotuni usuall}' somewhat 

 yellowish. Pronotuni flat above, the disk not much broader posteriorly 

 than anteriorly; lateral carinw sharp; lateral lobes vertical, higher 

 than long, broadly rounded below; me.so- and metasternal lobes tri- 

 angular. Elytra without markings, except two or three small obscure 

 spots on the ulnar vein, and about 5 mm. shorter than the wings. 

 Legs green or 3'ellowish green; anterior tibia? sulcate above but un- 

 armed; femora sparsely spinose below, the posterior ones armed on 

 both margins in the apical half; spines of the anterior and intermediate 

 femora usually very small and inconspicuous, generally confined to 

 one carina. Cerci of the male curved inward and upward, the tip 

 truncate and subdentate; subgenital plate of the male of moderate 

 length, apically truncate, ventrally l)isulcate, furnished with styles as 

 long as the apical width of the plate. Ovipositor one and one-half 

 times as long as the pronotuni, apically pointed, serrate above on the 

 apical half. 



Length, pronotuni, male and female, 5 mm. ; elytra, male 33-34 mm. ; 

 female 35 mm.; posterior femora, male 19-21 mm.; female 22 mm.; 

 ovij)(>sit()r. s mm.: width of eh'tra at the middle, male 12.5-13 mm., 

 female 14 mm. 



Tt/pe.— Cat. No. 9628, U.S.N.M. 



Six males, one female. February. 



This species is allied to J\ finoti of Griflin and also somewhat allied 

 to .some of the species described b}- Giglio-Tos, but seems distinct from 

 any of them. It probably resembles P. j^liyUopteroides Burmeister 

 more closely than any other species, but is separable from that insect, 

 as characteri/eil by Brunner. by several characters. 



12. PHYLLOPTERA FOSTERI, new species. 



Female. — L^niformly In-ownish testaceous with the elytr.i marked 

 along the middle with three small fuscous spots. Anterior tibia- un- 

 ai'MH'd al)o\e and smooth; anterior and intermediate femora unarmed 

 or the anterior ones with a few very short inconspicuous spines on the 

 anterior side. Lateral lobes of the i)ronotum higher than long, the 

 anterior margin slightly sinuate; lateral carina- sharp. Elytra but a 

 little more than one and one-half times as long as the posterior femora, 

 but not so short as in hrei'l folia. 



Length, pronotuni, 5 mm.; elytra. 34 mm.; ])osterior femora. i!2 

 mm.; ovipositor. 7 nun.; width of the elytra at the middle point. 13.5 

 nun. 



7}/j >'. ihw female, without date, in the collection of Professor 

 Bruner. 



This species is seemingly allied to hrerifolia Brunner and omllfolla 

 Burmeister and in a table of species would fall between those species. 



