44 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
Medler’s selection of a neotype of A. pulchella (Guérin) is invalid, according to 
the International Rules, with the result that the type-species is presently without 
a type-specimen. 
Species of Agrosoma have been collected from a number of economic plants, in- 
cluding Cacao, beans, sunflower, Lantana camara L., and Kudzu (Medler, op. cit.), 
and the present writer has identified A. bispinella Medler from potato in the 
USNM. 
Because Medler’s revision is recent and readily available, no key is published 
here, and only those illustrations needed for the new species described below, 
and those referred to above are included. 
SPECIES OF AGROSOMA 
akenalis Medler, 1960a:22. Mexico, Guatemala. 
bispinella Medler, 1960a:25. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica. 
carinona Medler, 1960a:22. Guatemala, B. Honduras, Honduras. 
cruciata (Signoret), 1853b:361 (Tettigonia). Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, 
Ecuador. 
decepta Medler, 1960a:24. Mexico. 
exukams Medler, 1960a:24. Mexico. 
glyphalis Medler, 1960a:24. Mexico. 
tluha, n. sp., Colombia. 
nabima, n. sp., Ecuador. 
placetis Medler, 1960a:24. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama. 
proxima (Signoret), 1853b:361 (Tettgonia). Guatemala, Honduras. 
pulchella (Guérin), 1829a: pl. 59, fig. 10 (Tettigonia). Mexico. 
syklis Medler, 1960a:22. Mexico. 
terebra Medler, 1960a:24. Mexico. 
Agrosoma iluha, NEW SPECIES 
FicurE 11 
Length of male 7.4-8.0 mm, of female 8.2-8.5 mm. Head with median length 
varying from less than one-third to slightly more than one-third transocular 
width. Forewing with veins indistinct. Male pygofer with process much as in A. 
cruciata (Signoret), in form of an inverted ‘‘U” in lateral view, the apex not ex-. 
tending beyond pygofer margin; style long, slightly hooked at apex; aedeagus as 
in cruciata (Signoret) but with the ventral pair of processes lacking the anterior 
point of the Signoret species, and tapered rather than expanded apically, the 
more dorsal pair of aedeagal processes more slender and acute and the preatrium 
much shorter than in cruciata. Other structural characters as in generic descrip- 
tion. 
Ground color of head and pronotum yellow, a U-shaped marking at apex of 
crown, an arcuate band on anterior pronotal margin and humeral margins 
narrowly, black, pronotal disk variably suffused with red or black; scutellum 
black with a median semicircular yellow spot on basal half; forewings much as in 
Medler’s (1960a:23, fig. 12) illustration of forewing of cruciata but with the mid- 
corial black area more reduced. 
