664 PROCEEDixns of the xattoxal }frsErM. vcl. xxx. 



Length of body, male, 19.5, female, 24.5; of pronotum, male, 4.5, 

 female, 5.25; of tegminu. nnile. 21, female, 24; of hind femora, male, 

 13, female, 16 mm. 



TyjM.— Cat No. 9738, U.S.N.M. 



Hahltcit. — San Bernardino, in September, 1 male, collected by the 

 writer; also a female from Sapucay, April, W. T. Foster, collector. 



The insects which form the basis of the above description appear to 

 })elong together, although the pronotum of the female specimen is 

 much less angulate on the hind margin of its disc than that of the 

 male. The male specimen may be considered the tj^pe of the species. 



PARACORNOPS POLITUM, new species. 



Ver^" similar to P. aquatieaiii Bruner, but Avith shorter and more 

 pointed tegmina. Vertex quite deeply sulcate. The hind femora are 

 shorter and somewhat less robust, while the sides of the pronotum are 

 almost without indications of the piceous band. The pronotum is less 

 profusely punctate on the prozona and has the sides largely without 

 punctures except on the hind lobe. The color of the entire insect is a 

 smoky green inclining to brown. The antenna? are shorter than the 

 head and pronotum combined. The prosternal spine is short and 

 rather coarse, cjdindrical, the apex blunt. 



Length of body, female, 25; of pronotum, 5.5; of tegmina. 22: of 

 hind femora, 14.75; of antenn;e, 6.75 mm. 



Habitat. —The single specimen, a female, comes from liio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil, where it was taken by m3^self on some water plants growing 

 in the Botanical Gardens just outside of the cit3\ This specimen is in 

 the writer's collection. The species ma}' also occur in Paraguay. 



CORNOPS Scudcler. 

 CORNOPS BIVITTATUM Giglio-Tos. 



Cornopshivittulnm ( iuJi.iu-Tos, Boll, :^ru8. Zool. Aiiat. Torino, IX, 1894, No. 1S4, 

 p. 32. 



Habitat. — Asuncion, Paraguay (Giglio-Tos). Not in the collecti(nis 

 studied. 



BUCEPHALACRIS Giglio-Tos. 



The genus Bucephalacrix was established b}^ Giglio-Tos" for an 

 insect which he took to he the Gri/llux hucepJialas of Marschall.if 

 Later he recognized it as distint-t and described it as B. horcilH. The 

 writer has specimens from British (iuiaua that appear to be MarschalTs 

 insect without an}^ doubt. These are quite distinct and do not even 

 fall in the same genus as characterized by Professor Giglio-Tos, 



«Boll. Mas. Zool. Anat. Comp. TJni. Torino, IX, 1894, No 184, p. 30. 

 ''Ann. Wiener Mus., 1835, p. 217, No. 10, pi. xviii, fig. 9. 



