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1901. Liparoscelis paludicola McNeill, Proc. Wash. Acad. 
Sci., III, p. 499, text fig. 40. [ 4, 2 ; Albemarle Island, Gala- 
pagos Islands. | 
1901. Liparoscelis pallidus McNeill, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 
III, p. 500, text fig. 41. [25 Barrington Island, Galapagos 
Islands. | 
In 1893, Scudder erected the genus Nesecia™, placing in it 
the single species here under consideration. In 1895, Brunner, 
without comment, placed Nesceecia as a synonym of Liparoscelis 
Stal*. This assignment was followed by McNeill, and is in 
our opinion correct. Kirby, however, in 1906, has resurrected 
Scudder’s Nesacia, evidently assigning to it the species having 
smooth faces and limiting Liparoscelis to the species having 
rough faces’. This action we believe, from study of the litera- 
ture and material of three of the four species involved, before 
us, to be untenable and we consequently place Nesecia Scudder 
under Liparoscelis Stal. 
McNeill, in 1901, described two additional species and one 
race from the Galapagos Islands. Careful consideration of his 
paper, a pair from the original series of his synonymous paludt- 
cola, and a large series at hand convinces us that but one species 
occurs in the Galapagos. It is evident that McNeill was igno- 
rant of the variation which occurs in many species of the Pseu- 
dophyllinz, and the differences described by that author are 
clearly of no specific diagnostic value. 
The species apparently reaches its largest size and develops 
a conspicuously colored phase in the mangrove (Avicenna sp. ) 
swamps. Upon this condition McNeill’s paludicola was based. 
In the present material, the length and degree of curvature of 
the ovipositor is decidedly variable. In length the tegmina 
usually slightly exceed the pronotum, frequently are somewhat 
longer than this and very rarely slightly shorter than the pro- 
notum. The pronotum is distinctly tuberculate, occasional in- 
dividuals having this slightly less pronounced than is usual. 
13 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXV, p. 20. 
14 Monogr. der Pseudophylliden, p. 174. 
16 Syn. Cat, Orth., II, p. 329. 
