(3<)0 PROr'EEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxx. 



CHLORUS Giglio-Tos. 

 CHLORUS BORELLII Giglio-Tos. 



ParadichropUi.s horeUii Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Torino, IX, 1894, No. 



184, p. 27. 

 Chlorns horelUi Giglio-Toss, Boll. Miis. Zool. Anat. Torino, XIII, 1898, No. 311, 



p. 50, note. 



Ilahitat. — Asuncion, Paraguay (Giglio-Tos). 



CHLORUS VARICOLOR (Stal). 



Pezotettix varicolor StIl, Obs. Orthopt., Ill, 1878, p. 9. 

 Parudichrophis varicolor GiGLio-Tos, Zool. Jahrb., VIII, p. 813. 

 Chlorus varicolor (iiGLio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Torino, XIII, 1898, No. 

 311, p. 50, note. 



nahltat. — Giglio-Tos reports this insect as coming from Paraguay." 

 Possibly he refers to the insect which is described just beyond. 



CHLORUS VITTATUS, new species. 



Dark brownish green, varied on head, pronotum and abdomen with 

 dirty ochraceous. Sides of basal half of abdomen heavil\' marked with 

 jet ))lack. Bod}" and limbs rather strongly hirsute. 



Head rather large, a ver}^ little broader than the front edge of the 

 pronotum, smooth; eyes large, rounded behind, nearly straight in 

 front, separated above by a space about equal to the width of the frontal 

 costa between the base of the antennae, a little longer than the cheeks 

 below them; fastigium of the vertex somewhat expanding in front, 

 shallowly sulcate, roundly confluent with the upper end of facial costa; 

 latter broad, prominent, a very little narrowed above, broadh' and 

 ver}'^ genth' sulcate near the ocellus, and strongly punctate on upper 

 half. Antennai filiform, about as long as the head and pronotum 

 combined. Pronotum subcylindrical, somewhat expanding on hind 

 lobe, without lateral carinte, the median carina distinct throughout, 

 slender, cut back of the middle b}' the last transverse sulcus, all three 

 sulci quite strong; anterior edge truncate, faintlj^ and broadly emargi- 

 nate in middle, hind margin broadl}" rounded or subangulate. Teg- 

 mina l)roadh' oval, rather coarseW veined, their dorsal edges not quite 

 meeting, extending backward to near the middle of second abdominal 

 segment. Hind femora rol)ust, a little surpassing the tip of abdomen. 

 Valves of ovipositor slender, pointed, the upper pair a trifle longer 

 than the lower. Space between the mesosternal lobes a little nar 

 rower than the lobes themselves, a trifle widest anteriorly. Prosternal 

 spine pyramidal, acute, directed a little to the rear. 



As indicated above, the general color of this insect is dark brownish 

 green, streaked and otherwise varied with dirty testaceous or ochra- 



«See Zool. Jahrb., VIII, p. 813. 



