304 CATALOGUE OF 



Mexico. 



A. Fastigium acutinn. ------- Sallei. 



B. Fastigium obtusum. 



a. Alae anticae fusco punctatae, - Mexican us. 



b. Alae anticae fusco non punctatae. 



* Vagina corporis dimifiio non longior. - Nieti. 



** Vagina corporis dimidio longior. - - - contingens. 



7. CONOCEPHALUS 



Sallei, Sauss. Rev. ZooL 1859, 207. 

 Mexico. 



8. CONOCEPHALUS MEXICANCS. 

 Mexican us, Sauss. Rev. Zool. 1859, 207. 

 Mexico. 



9. CONOCEPHALUS NIETI. 

 Nieti, Sauss. Rev. Zool. 1859, 207. 

 Mexico. 



10. CONOCEPHALUS CONTINGENS. 



Fo3m. Viridis, subliliter punctatus ; capitis fastigium breve, sub- 

 ascendens, basi subtus angulatum, margins antico latissimo subobtuso 

 transverse niyro-lineato ; oviductus rectus, corpore brevior ; pedes sat 

 gracileS) fernoribus posticis libiisque quatuor anlerioribus biseriatim 

 spinosis, tibiis posticis qitadriseriatim spinosis ; ala>. corpore valde 

 longiores ; alee posticce diaphance, pallido venoste. 



Female. Green. Head and prothorax finely punctured. Cone of 

 the head slightly ascending, extending a little beyond the sockets of the 

 antennae, slightly obtuse and very broad on the fore border, where there is 

 a transverse black line ; under side angular towards the front. Mandibles 

 black towards the tips. Eyes pale; their disks livid. Sides of the prothorax 

 less finely punctured than the flat disk. Prosternum armed with two 

 spines. Mesosternum and me las tern urn obtusely bidentate. Oviduct 

 straight, rather shorter than the body; vagina acute. Four anterior 

 femora unarmed ; hind femora and four anterior tibiae with two rows of 

 minute teeth beneath; hind femora a little longer than the oviduct; hind 

 tibiae with four rows of minute teeth. Wings rather less than twice ihe 

 length of the body. Hind wings pellucid; veins pale. Length of the 

 body 14 lines; expansion of the fore wings 45 lines. 



The fastigium is not furrowed like that of C. dentifrons, and is not 

 bordered with white like that of C. occidentalis, and it is distinguished 

 from C. Mexicanus by the fore wings without brown speckles. 



a. Mexico. 



