1 1461. LIST OF PARAGUA YAN LOCUSTS— BR UNER. 683 



DICHROPLUS VITTATUS Bruner. 



Dichroplus vittatKs Bruner, Lofusts 'of Argentina, 1900, p. 77, figs. 43 and 44. 



Habitat. — Althouo-h not represented in the material at hand from 

 Paragua}^ it i.s sure to o(-cur there when the country is a little more 

 carefully explored. 



DICHROPLUS BERGII StEl. 



Pezotettlv {Dichroplva) bm/li Stal, Obs. Orthopt., Ill, 187S, p. 6. 



Hahitat. — Various localities in Paraguay (Giglio-Tos, Rehn, Foster, 

 Bruner). It is also found in other regions, as Uruguay, Brazil, Argen- 

 tina, and Bolivia. 



DICHROPLUS ROBUSTULUS Stal. 



Pezotettix {Dichroplus) rohustulus StAl, Obs. Orthopt., Ill, 1878, p. 7. 



TlaVitat. — Not in the collections at hand, but very likely to be taken 

 in Paraguay as well as in Brazil, from where it was described. 



DICHROPLUS DISTINGUENDUS Giglio-Tos. 



Dichroplus distinguendus Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mas. Zool. Anat. Torino, IX, 1894, 

 No. 184, p. 22. 



Hahitat. — Reported as occurring in the Province of San Pedro, 

 Paraguay (Giglio-Tos). Not represented in the collections studied. 



DICHROPLUS CINCTIPES, new species. 



A medium-sized brownish testaceous insect with conspicuousl}^ 

 banded hind femora. The two sexes not veiy unequal in size. Rather 

 profusely hirsute on legs, abdomen, thorax, and even on the tegmina. 



Head about as wide as the front edge of the pronotum; the eyes 

 rather prominent, especially in the male, about as long (female) or a 

 trifle longer (male) than the cheeks below them, in both sexes sepa- 

 rated above by a space equal to the l)roadest part of the frontal costa; 

 fastigium of the vertex broadly and shallowly sulcate, the bounding 

 carina3 angulate and faintly separating it from the sulcus of the frontal 

 costa; the latter quite prominent, especially between the base of the 

 antenna, a little narrowed above the antennie, and again just below 

 the ocellus continuous to the clypeus, sulcate throughout, more deeply 

 in the male, and provided with strong, smooth, lateral carina^; facial 

 carinas also prominent, in the male parallel, in the female very slightly 

 sinuate and divergent below. Antenna? liliform, about as long 

 (female) or a little longer (male) than the head and pronotum together. 

 Pronotum with the sides of the anterior lobe cylindrical, smooth, 

 the hind lobe strongly expanding posteriorly, punctate, the two lobes 

 about equal in length; median carina present onh' on hind lobe; trans- 

 verse sulci profound, continuous; anterior edge straight or very 



