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Genus XXI. Spokgophora, Serv. 



Sj)ongipliora, Serv. Ann. Sci. Nat. xxii. p. 31 (1831). 



Spougophora, Agass. Nom. Zool. p. 349 (1846) ; Scudd. Bull. 

 U.S. Geol. Surv. Territ. ii. p. 251 (1876). 



Psalidopbora, Serv. Orth. p. 29 (1839); BoTirn, Stett. ent. 

 Zeit. XXV. p. 417 (1864). 



Type, S. croceij)ennis, Serv., from Brazil. 



Spongophora Dtsoki, sp. n. (Plate XII. fig. 6.) 



Long. Corp. 20 millim. ; segm. ult. cum forcip. 9 millim. 



J^emale. Head blackish above ; the mouth-parts and occiput 

 reddish ; antennae at least 17-jointed, tawny ; pronotum dark 

 brown, the lateral carinae paler ; tegmina chestnut-brown, emar- 

 ginate at tips ; exposed part of wings luteous, bordered with 

 chestnut ; terminal segment of abdomen tawny, with some 

 obsolete, brown, longitudinal stripes above, strongly punctured 

 towards the extremity ; pygidium emarginate, and therefore 

 distinctly bifid ; forceps long, gradually curved, thickened 

 towards the base and very slightly denticulated, meeting at the 

 tips ; legs straw-coloured, femora striped both above and below 

 with brown ; body beneath testaceous, sides of abdomen darker. 



Hob. Venezuela. 



A comparatively short and stout species ; it most resembles an 

 insect from Theresopolis, which may be the female of S. lUeri- 

 minieri., Serv., or S. flavipennis, Burm., which are probably dis- 

 tinct from S. croceipennis, Serv. This, too, has the terminal 

 segment and forceps pale. 



Genus XXII. Chelisoches, Scudd. 

 Scudd. Froc. Bost. Soe, Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 295 (1876). 

 II Lobophora, Serv. Ortli. p. 32 (1839). 

 Type, Forjlcula inorio, Eabr., from the Eastern Archipelago. 



Chelisoches tekebrator, sp. n. (Plate XII. fig. 5.) 

 Long. Corp. 25 millim. ; segm. ult. cum forcip. 10 millim. 

 Female. Chestnut-brown, forceps and abdomen beneath red- 

 dish ; antennae 18-jointed, the second transverse, all the rest much 

 longer than broad, but the 4th distinctly shorter than the 3rd 

 and 5th; joint 12 (except at base), and joints 13 and 14 entirely 



