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uniformly covered above with dusky blotches, the femora with three 

 eiiually distinct and eq:ially distant dnrit blotches on the upper half of 

 the outer surface, and in having six preapical spines on the inner 

 hinder edge of tlie hind tibia3; but I have in my collection specimens 

 from tlie upper Amazons, depai tinji; '.juite as wide!}' from my previous 

 description in the laarkino;, and v/hich have but four preapical spines 

 oa the ediic of the hind femora. 1 ?, Peruvinn Maranon. 



3. Platydactylus bicolor Scudd. 2 d, Eastern slope of the 

 Peruvian Andes. 



4. Eneoptera sp. 



A single m;ile from the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, ap- 

 pears to be an unilescribed species, but is too imperfect for de- 

 scription. 



LOCUSTARI/E. 



5. The pupa of an unknown insect belonging to a new genus ot 

 LocMstarians, allied to Steirodon, with a flat hexagonal pronotal disc, 

 its side lobate with crenulated edges, iind deeply notched behind the 

 midtlle third, was obtained on the eastern slope of the Peruvian 



Andes. 



Stkirodoxopis nov. gen. 



Head large, as broad as the prothorax; the eyes prominent and 

 widely separated; front and verte.\ separated by a prominent broken 

 ridge between the eyes, of which the antennal sockets form a part; 

 vertex a little convex, the fastigium reaching just a^ far forward as 

 the antennal sockets, with a slightly impressed longitudinal sulcation; 

 it is scarcely longer than broad, tapers a little <ind meets at tip an 

 upturned projection of the front, consisting of a pair of lenticular 

 lobes, at the biise of and between which is an ocellus, the others 

 occupying tlie sides of the fastigium of the vertex. Antennae very 

 slender. Prothorax slightly concave, longer than broad, the lateral 

 carina; very prominent, parallel, the front margin a little concave, 

 the hind margin convex to a greater degree. Elytra nearly fi)ui- 

 times as lojig as broa,d, subfusifbrm, tapering from the middle of the 

 basal third, the point rounded olF, the principal veins running sub- 

 parallel to the hind bonh-r, with the neuration generally resembling 

 that of Phylloptera. Wings long and comparatively slen<ier, pointed, 

 surpassing the elytra, and therefore furnished with a coriaceous tip. 

 Legs rather short and strongly comj)ressed, notably the tibiie, which 



