670 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxx. 



Head moderately large, a little broader than the front edge of the 

 pronotum, the occiput .short; eyes large and prominent, much longer 

 than that portion of the cheeks below them, separated above by a space 

 scarcely as wide as the diameter of the basal joint of the antennw; fas- 

 tigium of the vertex horizontal, moderately large and l)roadly and ver}' 

 shallowly sulcate; frontal costa prominent above the ocellus where it 

 is nearl}' "twice as broad as the narrow vertex, plane, with a few coarse 

 punctures, below the ocellas narrower, less prominent, sulcate and con- 

 tinuous to the clypeus. Antenna rather coarsel}' filiform, a trifle 

 longer than the head and pronotum together. Pronotum short, CA'lin- 

 drical, without lateral carina', strongly and coarsel}' impresso-punctate, 

 a little expanding on posterior lobe. Tegmina narrow, about as long- 

 as al)domen and somewhat surpassing the apex of hind femora. The 

 latter moderate!}' broad at base, but flattened, slender apicall3\ Hind 

 tibia' and tarsi rather profusely and longl}^ hirsute, the former pro- 

 vided with 7 spines in outer row. Prosternal spine robust, short, and 

 directed gently to the rear. 



General color above brownish ferruginous, with a well-defined 

 piceous l)iind on the head back of eyes, on upper portion of sides of 

 pronotum and pleura, followed ))elow b}- a narrower one of flavous, 

 which is again bordered on the lower margin l)y a darker color that 

 continues to the pectus and venter. Sides of abdomen largely piceous. 

 Tegmina ])rownish ferruginous, l)ec(miing fuliginous apicall}. Wings 

 nmch infuscated. Hind femora ferrugineo-testaceous, with traces of 

 two dusky bands across upper edge and black ones internally, the apex 

 black intci'iially on lower half, reddish on upper half, preceded b}- a 

 pale uniHilus. Hind tDmv dull plumbeous basally, becoming strongly 

 infuscated apically. Anteiuia' ferruginous. 



Length of ))ody, female 23, of pronotum 8.S, of tegmina 16, of liind 

 femora 10.5 nmi. 



7///.r.— Cat. No. 9739 U.S.N.M. 



Ilahiiiii. — Sapucay, Paragua}', 5 females collected during the 

 months of Jiuuiary and February (W. T. Foster). 



PARALEUAS PUNCTIPENNIS. new species. 



A somewhat smaller but more robust insect than the preceding and 

 diflering from it in lacking the decided pale band on sides of head, 

 })ronotum atul pleura, in possessing a lu'oader head, larger and more 

 prominent eyes, a shorter pronotum and correspondingl}' shorter 

 tegmina and wings. The tegmina in _i)unctlihnni>< are somewhat 

 shorter than the abdomen and strongly mottled with fuscous, and the 

 carinas of the hind femora are conspicuously conspersed with black in 

 addition to the darker outer face and much more pronounced fuscous 

 bands. The disk of the pronotum and occiput is dirty gray, more or 

 less conspersed and mottled with fuscous, as is also the face. The 



