Scudder.] 274 [December 16, 



tegmina, 4.15 mm.; of hind tibiae, <S 11, ? 13 mm. 1 <?, 3 9, East- 

 ern slope of the Peruvian Andes. 



28. Phasoparia curtipennis nov. sp. 



Whole front of head and first eight joints of antennae reddish 

 luteous; rest of antennas black, excepting the sides of the eighteenth 

 joint and the tip of the apical, which are dull luteous; rest of body- 

 reddish brown, the sides of the head and pronotum blackish, the 

 tegmina and tips of the hind femora deeply, the sides of the hind 

 femora and the basal half of hind femora somewhat, infuscated ; rest 

 of legs dull reddish luteous, the spine excepting at the base, and the 

 claws excepting the basal half, blackish. Frontal carina very deeply 

 and broadly sulcate, embracing all but the lateral edges ; summit of the 

 apical half of the head and the tubercle of the vertex with a rather 

 slight median carina; whole upper surface of head and whole of 

 pronotum irregularly and rather heavily, as well as profusely rugose; 

 a compressed, rather slight, median carina extends the whole length of 

 the thorax and abdomen ; lateral carinas of pronotum wanting, although 

 the dorsal and lateral field are clearly distinct. Tegmina oblong obo- 

 vate, the tip rounded, the lower border slightly and roundly excised 

 before the middle, the dorsal and lateral areas clearly distinguished, 

 the whole tegmina. rugose, about three times longer than broad. 

 Cerci simple, long, conical, slightly flattened, the apical third much 

 slenderer, nearly cylindrical, incurved, the apex bluntly rounded. 



Length of body, 21.75 mm. ; of antennas, 11 mm.; of tegmina, 4.5 

 mm.; of hind tibias, 13 mm. 1 d", Eastern slope of the Peruvian 

 Andes. 



29. Acridium (Schistocerca) occidentale Scudd. 1 9, 

 Eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes. 



30. Acridium (Osmilia) labratum Scudd. 3d, 1 ?, East- 

 ern slope of the Peruvian Andes. 



31. Acridium (Osmilia) Saussurei nov. sp. 



Ruddy brown, whole front of head, including frontal carina, dis- 

 tantly punctate; antennas a little infuscated at the tip. Vertex 

 slightly sulcate between the eyes. Pronotum with an indistinct 

 median carina, the anterior half of the disc very indistinctly rugu- 

 lose, the posterior half more distinctly and profusely, and punctulate 

 in the pits. Tegmina concolorous with the body, the apical half sub- 

 hyaline, and very faintly blotched with fuliginous. Wings hyaline, the 

 nervures and cross veins of basal half of the wing (excepting close 

 to the costal border) yellowish white, beyond blackish ; costal edge 



