LOCUSTID^E. 377 



6. PHYLLOPTERA OVALIFOLIA. 

 ovalifolia, Burnt, ffandb. Ent. ii. 693. 

 South America. 



7. PHYLLOPTERA? CASSIN^FOLIA. 



Locusta cassiDEefolia, Enc. Meth. x. 343 Phylloptera cassinae folia, Serv. 

 Rev. 46; Hist. Orth. 406, pi. 9, f. 3. 



Brazil. 



8. PHYLLOPTERA ZETTERSTEDTI, 

 Zetterstedti, Stal, Eug. Resa, 322. 



Puna, South America. 



9. PHYLLOPTERA MAGNIFOLIA. 



Mas et foem. Viridis, robustus; verticis carina alba, sulcata, antice 

 truncata ; frons nonnunquam rufescente vittala; labrum album; 

 prothoracis discus carinis lateralibus bene determinatis, margine 

 poslico nigro subrotundato ; oviductus brevissimus ; pedes validi, 

 femoribus posticis alarum anticarum dimidio longioribus, tibiis pos- 

 ticis subdilatatis ; alee anticce fusiformes, punctis apud venas nigris; 

 alee posticcB diaphance, longiores, striga apicali lata viridi. 



Male and female. Grass-green, partly testaceous, stout, smooth, 

 shining. Head more or less while about the mouth, narrower than the 

 prothorax ; vertex with a white furrowed keel, which is as broad as the first 

 joint of the antennae and is truncated on the fore border; front sometimes 

 with a reddish stripe, its fore part produced into a cone between the 

 antennae. Eyes brown, nearly round, very prominent. Prothorax with a 

 flat disk, which widens towards the hind border and has a longitudinal 

 impressed line and two transverse impressed lines; of the latter the hinder 

 one is deeply angular ; lateral keels well defined ; fore border hardly 

 excavated; sides with a conical outline; hind border slightly rounded, 

 black, which hue extends along the adjoining part of each lateral keel. 

 Mesosternum and raetasternum rather deeply notched. Oviduct deep, 

 curved, about one-fourth of the length of the abdomen. Legs thick ; spines 

 minute; hind femora of the female three-fifths of the length of the fore 

 wings, longer in the male ; hind tibiae slightly dilated, as long as the hind 

 femora. Fore wings fusiform, shorter by one line than the hind wings, 

 minutely reticulated, with black points along the principal veins; large 

 areolets irregular; costa rounded, except towards the tip; interior border 

 straight, obliquely and slightly truncated towards the tip. Hind wings 

 pellucid; veins white; apical patch green. Length of the body 15 17 

 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 60 62 lines. 



This may be the P. myrtifolia of Linnaeus and of Fabricius, but is not 

 the myrtifolia of Stoll. 



a, b. Brazil. 



c. Guayaquil. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



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