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TAOSA VIRIDIFRONS (Walker) 



Plate 2, figures 41, 42 

 Cladodiptera viridijrons Walker, 1858, Insecta Saundersiana, p. 41. 



The holotype of Walker's series agrees with the insect identified in 

 the Biologia CentraH-Americana (Distant, vol, i, p. 41, 1887) as 

 Dictyophara vitrata (Fabricius). The specimen also agrees with 

 Melichar's description of Taosa suturalis Germar (Abh. Zool, Bot. 

 Ges. Wien, vol. 7, No. i, p. 153, 1912). It is considered to be distinct. 



TAOSA MULIEBRIS (Walker) 

 Plate 2, figures 37, 38 

 Cladodiptera muliebris Walker, 1858, List Horn. Suppl., p. 76. 



This species appears to be quite distinct, and the suppression of it 

 as a synonym of suturalis Germar (Muir, 193 1) cannot be upheld. 

 The figures are of the holotype. 



TAOSA TERMINALIS (Germar) 



Plate 2, figures 39, 40 



Plata terminalis Germar, 1830, Thon's Ent. Arch., vol. 2, No. 2, p. 48. 

 Cladodiptera virilis Walker, 1858, List Horn. Suppl., p. 75. 



Walker's holotype of virilis is figured. 



TAOSA SORORCULA (Berg) 



Plate 2, figure 36 

 Dictyophara sororcula Berg, 1879, An. Soc. Cient. Argentina, vol. 8, p. 183. 



The figure is based on a specimen in the British Museum. 



Genus TARACTICUS Berg 



Taracticus Berg, 1881, An. Soc. Cient. Argentina, vol. 12, p. 265. (Orthotype, 

 Cixius chilensis Spinola, 1852, in Gay, Hist, de Chile, Zool., vol. 7, p. 249.) 



Chondrodera Melichar, 1912, Abh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 7, No. i, p. 157. 

 (Orthotype, C. granicollis Melichar, ibid., p. 158.) 



TARACTICUS CHILENSIS (Spinola) 



Cixius chilensis Spinola, 1852, loc. cit. 



Chondrodera chilensis Melichar, 1912, loc. cit., p. 159. 



The writer, on the basis of Chilean material examined by him, con- 



