166 entomological news. [May, '07 



The distal borders of the wings, upper surface, in thoosa 9 

 are not buff as in var. lima; the whole under surface is more 

 buff and has more prominent markings than $ 9- of poly- 

 phemus, but less than luna. The ocelli are more pronounced 

 than in M. thoosa $ , but much less so, and less numerous than 

 in luna or polyphemus. Apex of forewings heavily marked 

 with black as in $ $ , and general color of a greener pearly- 

 lustre than in the two other forms. To describe further were 

 to repeat my former description of the $ . The accompanying 

 illustration best contrasts the two sexes of M. thoosa with 

 those of M. polyphemus; the upper pair are M. thoosa; the 

 lower, M. polyphemus as typical as I could select from 126 

 specimens. The figures are reduced one-half. 



As far as I can learn, M. thoosa belongs to the eastern coast, 

 and M. polyphemus and luna to the central and western portion 



of Mexico. 



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A new Species of Phoebolampta (Tettigonidae, 

 Orthoptera) from Cuba. 

 By James A. G. Rehn. 

 Phoebolampta cubensis n. sp. 



Type: — 5 ; Havana, Cuba. (C. F. Baker.) [A. N. S. 

 Phila.] 



Closely allied to P. magnifica Brunner* from Haiti, but very 

 considerably smaller and with the costal margin of the tegmen 

 much more sinuate in the distal half, and apparently with a 

 greater number of spines on the distal section of the ventral 

 margins of the caudal femur. 



Size medium; form distinctly compressed. Head gently sloping to 

 the produced, subequal fastigium, which is very slightly elevated, 

 with a very fine slight median sulcus and a subtruncate apex; facial 

 fastigium touching the fastigium of the vertex ; eyes moderately large, 

 subspherical, quite prominent when viewed dorsad; antennae filiform, 

 in length distinctly exceeding the body and about equal to two- 

 thirds the length of the tegmina. Pronotum with the dorsum flattened 

 and regularly expanding caudad, the cephalic width about one-third 

 the caudal, cephalic margin truncate, caudal margin arcuate with the 

 faintest possible indication of angulation, lateral angles rectangulate 

 but not sharp; disk punctate, much more thickly so caudad than 

 * Monogr. der Phaneropt., p. 352, tab. 7, fig. 103. 



