10 



OR l l l( )1'TEKA 



suriiutmeiisis. Saussure, Milt. Schweiz. ]^nt. (les. Vol. 3, p. 60 (1869) 

 (Tlieoclytes) ; Mém. Hist. Nat. Mex. Mant. .^iner. p\. i, f. 19(18711 

 ( Theoclytes) . 



7. P. s/^/«?co///5 (Saussure cS: Zelintner). Biol. Ccnti .-Ahum . Oith. Vol. 1, Brazil. 



p. 193, pi. 6, f. 2 (1894) (Tlieoclytes). 



8. P. ihtriiigi (.'Saussure & Zelintner). ibidem, p. ir)3 (1S94) (T/ifoclytes). Rio (jiande do Siil, Brazil. 



9. P. (Saussiii e). Mélang-. Orth. Ft. 4. ]i. (S5. jil. 9, f. 33 (1S72) Brazil. 



{Theoclytes). 



10. P. parvitliis{\Vpstwn()d), livws. Ins. I'am. Mant. p. 46 ( 1889) ( T/z^'f'r/r/f.s). l-Jiazil. 



12. Genus HAGIOTATA, Saussure & Zehntner 



Hagiotata. Saussure \- Zehntner, Biol. Centr.- Amei . ()ilh. \'ol. i. pji. 184, 197, pi. ,s, f. 5 (1894). 



Characters ( I ). — Fiont bitubei culate : facial scutellum transv erse, above obtuse-ani^ulate ; 

 vertex very slightly higher than the eves. Pronotum moderately short, strongly granulate, margins 

 with isolated teeth of considerable size between whicli dentations of a smaller size are placed: median 

 carina extending the total length of the pronotum ; collar with two weak rows of teeth, near the base, 

 however, with two strong tubercles. Tegmina narmwed toward the apex, which is rounded and not 

 emarginate; costal field very narrow, slightly ampliate toward the base; suturai margin subhyaline. 

 W'ings with the anteiior field narrow, apex arcuato-truncate. Limbs moderatelv short. Abdomen with 

 the fourth segment lobate. 



Geographical distribution of species. — A single species is known from Brazil. 

 I. H. hofniaimi. Saussure & Zehntner, Biol. Centr.-.Amer. Orth. WA. i, Brazil, 

 p. 197, pi. 8, f. 5 (1894) {Tlieoclytes hofmanni on plate). 



13. Genus VATES, Burmeister 



Vates. Burmeister, Handb. Ent. lid. 2. .Abth. 2. Ft. i. p. 543 fi838). 

 Theoclytes. Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins. Orth., y. i5o (1839). 



Pseudovates. Saussure, Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. \'ol. 3, pj). 53, 60, 221 (1869-70) (2). 



Characters. — l-'orm rather elongate, the male slender, the female with the abdomen depressed- 

 fusiform. Head trans\ erse-trigonal ; occiput subtruncate, elevated above the dorsal portion of the 

 eves, the frontal region decidedly oblique-declivent ; juxta-ocular sulci distinct: frontal processes jnesent 

 as a pair of short, shai ]>. trigonal plates or as elongate, contiguous, parallel, narrow and apically acute 

 lobes; ocelli placed in an arcuate line, large in the male, rather small in the female: frontal shield trans- 

 verse, dorsal margin rectangulate or with the angle developed with a distinct projecting process: eyes 

 prominent, rounded, directed somewhat anteriorly: antenna' of the female slighth' serrulate, of the 

 male more or less unipectinate on the internal margin, the apical poition in some species simjily sei- 

 rulate. Pronotum more or less elongate, the dilation short, broad anci lather sharply contrasted with the 

 subequal shaft, the outline of the ampliation and of the anterior portion of the collar rounded, the 

 lateral mai'gins of the collar subparallel, the anterior p(jrtij)n of the pronotum being of a trilobate form; 

 median carina distinct, represented on the collar by a sulcus : margins almost entirely motx' or less spinu- 



'D Known from the female alone. 



12) This division, which has been given generic ranlt by some authors, does not appear to us to be of generic value, the characters usually assigned 

 as diagnostic, i. e excised apical section of the marginal field of the female tegmina and the infuscate wings of the same se.x, shading ofi into true l'aies. 

 It would probably be more logical trom the evidence of material in hand to divide the genus on the character of the frontal processes, but without more 

 material this does not seem desirable. 



