Scudder.] 278 [December 16, 



point, reaching to the upper base of the frontal carina of the head. 

 Tegmina fiat with very few and very indistinct granulations, and exces- 

 sively minute and crowded punctulations. Wings very short, claws 

 sharply spurred at the base ; valves of ovipositor rather stoutly 

 serratulate. 



Length of body, 17.5 mm.; of pronotal shield, IS mm.; of hind 

 tibiae, 8 mm. 1 ?, Eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes. 



PHASMIDA. 



36. Bacteria nigripes nov. sp. 



Head short, obovate, smooth, pale testaceous, gibbous, with a slight 

 dusky medio-dorsal line, and sometimes with longitudinal dashes on 

 the sides; basal joint of antennae pale testaceous, depressed, largest 

 just before the apex, the remainder black. Pronotum of the color of 

 the head, sometimes infuscated, the anterior angles a little produced 

 laterally, the sides delicately emarginate ; all the legs blackish, the 

 coxae testaceous and very large, so that the fore femora are straight 

 throughout; middle femora with a slight apical lobe posteriorly. 

 Body, excepting at the posterior extremity of the meso- and meta- 

 thorax, blackish, but the terminal three segments of the abdomen 

 again testaceous. Abdomen with a slender medio-dorsal yellowish 

 line ; joints of abdomen a little dilated at the distal and a little con- 

 stricted near the proximal extremity, the last three joints greatly 

 swollen. Styles almost straight, rather stout, cylindrical, roundly and 

 very bluntly terminated. 



Length of body, 63 mm.; of hind tibiae, 37 mm.; of middle tibiae, 

 52 mm. ; of fore tibiae, 32 mm. 2 d", Eastern slope of the Peruvian 

 Andes. 



37. Bacteria exigua nov. sp. 



Testaceous, very slender. Head subcylindrical, half as long again 

 as broad, with a few distant minute points scattered about, a little 

 appressed anteriorly above, producing a slight, blunt, curved, trans- 

 verse ridge between the eyes, uniting the posterior bases of the 

 antennal sockets ; basal joint of antennae depressed, of equal width 

 beyond the base. Pronotum of the width of the head, and of equal 

 size throughout, excepting a slight expansion above the coxae; the 

 front and sides broadly and very slightly emarginate, the anterior 

 half separated from the posterior by a deep sulcation and with a 



