NO. 1124. 



REVISIOS OF THE M KLAyoPLI—SCVDDER. 21 



oiieof yellowish white; face grayish ; abdomen with a yellow line ahmg 

 the back, the sides brown, the sternites ytdlow; sternites of thorax 

 bluish <?ray; a whitish bar extends from base of te«5n»ina diagonally 

 to hind coxae; sides of hind femora brown with two yellowish stripes 

 on npper margin, beh)W light orange; tibiae deep orange; tarsi flesh 

 c()h)r. Female tinged with greofiish yellow where there is clear yellow 

 in the male; cheeks, wli(>le sternnm and lower sides of ab<lomen blue, 

 esjtecially the sternites of thorax ; lower pides of hind femora and tibiae 

 deep orange. 



Mr. Samuel Ilenshaw, while recently in London, i)rocured for me at 

 the liritish Museum a drawing of the genitalia of Walker's Cahptenus 

 wexicanuH, described by him as new, showing that it was uuquestiou- 

 ably the present species. (See Plate II, tig. 4.) 



2. PARADICHROPLUS VARICOLOR. 



(Plati- II, fi«. 6.) 



rezoteinx varicolor StAl, Rili. K. 8v. Vet.-Aka.l. Handl., V (1«78), No. 9, pp. 9-10. 

 I'aradichropluH varicolor Hkunnkh, Kev. Syst. Ortb. (1893), p. 145. — (iKiUo-Tos, 

 Zool. .lahrb.. Abth. Syst., VIII (1895), p. 813. 



Dark ferrngineo-testaceous, lutescent beneath, with a Idack lateral 

 stripe. Head with the genae not in tlie least tumescent as seen from 

 above, the summit blackish fuscous, and behind the eyes a broad 

 piceous band; raised portions more or less obscured with blackish 

 fuscous; frontal costa much narrowed above, punctate, plane: fasti- 

 ium feebly sulcate anteriorly. Pronotu.n with the hind margin entire, 

 he lateral carinae feeble on the metazoiia, the upper portion of the 

 lateral lobes with a broad i^iceous band, the continuation of that 

 hind the eye, somewhat tinged with chocolate, accompanied on the 

 rozona by a slender black stripe between the front and middle sulcus, 

 alfway between the black band and the lower margin. Prosternal 

 spine conical. Tegmina half as long again as broad, apically acumi- 

 nate, their inner edges subattingent, testaceous, the costal half, iu 

 continuation of the pronotal stripe, infuscated. Fore and middle legs 

 ferruginous abova, luteous below; hind femora with the upper half of 

 the outer and upper third of the inner face blackish, the upper face 

 ferruginous, the remainder flavous, the hind tibiae dull pale red, the 

 spines black on apical, pallid on basal half. Supraanal plate of male 

 broadly triangular, apically rectangulate, the angle rounded, the sur- 

 faie nearly flat, with a percurrent rather sharply defined median sulcus; 

 fuicula consisting of a pair of subattingent, very feeble, lounded lobes; 

 ^eici very slender, tapering very gradually on basal half then laminate 

 and subequal, bent abruptly inward and backward and feebly twisted, 

 terminating in a blunt i)oint. 



Length of body, male, 11.75 mm.; tegmina 2.75 mm.; hind femora 

 8 mm. 



One male, Columbia. Originally describeil from Colombia and Mex- 



