384 CATALOGUE OF 



notched ; fore border of the front, a patch on each side by the eye and 

 labrum white. Eyes tawny, mottled with blackish, short-elliptical, promi- 

 nent. Prothorax thickly punctured ; disk flat, with two indistinct trans- 

 verse impressed lines, slightly increasing in breadth from the slightly 

 excavated fore border to the rounded hind border; lateral keels whitish, 

 sharply defined ; sides with a rounded outline. Mesosternum and meta- 

 sternum deeply notched. Abdomen and oviduct testaceous, the latter about 

 one-fourth of the length of the former. Legs slender; spines minute; hind 

 femora a little shorter than the hind tibiae, less than half the length of the 

 fore wings. Fore wings broad, very minutely reticulated, shorter by full one 

 line and a half than the hind wings ; the greatest breadth in the middle ; 

 costa ronnded to the tips; large areolets few, irregular. Hind wings 

 pellucid; veins greenish white ; costal patch green. Length of the body 

 9 lines ; expansion of the fore wings 36 lines. 



The hind femora are shorter in proportion to the fore wings than those 

 of O. Mexicanus, rhombifolia, Huastecus and tessellatus, and longer than 

 those of O. sahifolia. The lateral keels of the prothorax are more sharply 

 defined than those of O. Otomius^ salicifolia and Totonacus. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



South America. 

 14. OROPHUS SALVIFOLIA. 



Phylloptera (Orophus) salvifolia, Sauss. Rev. Zool. 1859, 204. 

 Bahia. 



15. OROPHUS DECISUS. 



Mas. Viridis ; caput carina subsulcata antennarum articulo 10 duplo 

 latiore, fronte inter antennas latiuscula uniguttuta, labro atbo ; pro- 

 thorax subrugulosus, carinis lateralibus albis distinctissimis ; meso- 

 sternum et metasternum subincisa ; pedes gracUes , ales anticce 

 fusiformes, latins culce,femori bus posticis sat longiores, costa convexa, 

 margine postico minus rotundato; alee postica diaphance, longiores, 

 striga apicali lata viridi. 



Male. Grass-green, smooth, shining. Head a little narrower than 

 the prothorax; keel of the vertex shallow, much broader than long, about 

 twice the breadth of the first joint of the antennae, with a shallow furrow, 

 its fore border straight; front between the antennae as broad as the keel of 

 the vertex, with a pale excavated dot in its disk; labrum mostly white. 

 Eyes tawny, elliptical, prominent. Prothorax very slightly rugulose, with 

 a flat disk which widens much hindward and has a longitudinal impressed 

 line and a deeply angular transverse line; lateral keels white, sharply 

 defined ; fore border slightly excavated ; sides and hind border rounded. 

 Mesosternum and metasternum very slightly excavated. Cerci stout, 

 lanceolate, curved towards each other; styles lanceolate, short, slender. 

 Legs slender; spines minute ; hind legs long; bind femora more than two- 

 thirds of the length of the fore wings. Fore wings broad, fusiform, shorter 

 by two lines than the hind wings; minutely reticulated, large areolets 

 numerous, irregular ; costa more rounded than the interior border. Hind 



