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Synopsis of the Species 0/* Taeniophora. 

 A. Male cerci somewhat heavy, flattened, and with the apex truncate. 

 b. Prevailing colour olive-green or olive-yellow. 

 c. Olivaceous-green. Anterior femora armed with a median tooth. 



Genicular portion of hind femora black 1. dentipes, Stal. 



cc. Dull olivaceous-yellow. Anterior femora not dentate. Anterior 

 trochanters and base of all the femora dilute sanguineous. 

 d. Apex of hind femora and base and apical half of hind tibiae 



black . , .2. pulchripes, Stal. 



dd. Apex of hind femora and base of hind tibiae dull ferruginous, 



the apical two-thirds of the latter black 3. femorata, sp. n. 



bb. Prevailing colour black or piceous. 



c. Hind femora with a preapical pale annulus, the apex san- 

 guineous. Pronotum and tegmina vittate [4 carinipes, Gerst] 



cc. Hind femora without a preapical pale annulus, the apex fuscous. 



Pronotum not vittate 5. megacephala, sp. n. 



AA. Male cerci long and slender, the apex acuminate. Hind femora at 

 base olivaceous, outer half ferruginous, the genicular area black. 

 Head, pronotum, and tegmina vittate [6. unistriffata,de Haan.] 



1. Taeniophora dentipes, Stal. 



Taniophora dentipes, Stal, Obs. Orthopt. i. p. 53 (1873) l . 

 Hab. Colombia, Remedios l . 



This locust is certain to be found in Panama, and the same remark applies to the 

 following species. 



2. Taeniophora pulchripes, Stal. 



Taeniophora pulchripes, Stal, Syst. Acrid, i. p. 88 (1878) \ 

 Hab. Colombia, Santa Marta 1 . 



3. Taeniophora femorata, sp. n. 



Similar to T. dentipes, Stal, but lacking the dentition of the anterior femora above. Head, pronotum, and 

 tegmina vittate with shiny black and pale olivaceous. The hind femora blood-red varied with black and 

 olivaceous. Front and middle legs olivaceous. 



Head large, considerably broader than the front edge of the pronotum, the eyes large and very prominent, not 

 much longer than wide, fully twice as long as the cheeks below them, separated above by a very narrow 

 almost linear vertex ; the fastigium short, depressed, scarcely sulcate ; frontal costa rather broad, nearly 

 twice as wide as the diameter of the first antennal joint, prominent between the antennae, not sulcate, 

 and provided with but a very few inconspicuous punctulations. Antennae very long and slender, in the 

 male nearly or quite the length of the insect, in the female about one-fifth shorter. Pronotum short, 

 smooth, the transverse sulci profound, continuous (?) or gently interrupted in the middle ( c? ) ; hind 

 lobe somewhat punctulate, considerably shorter than the anterior lobe ; front edge sinuate, the hind 

 margin obtusangulate. Tegmina burnished, two-thirds the length of the abdomen. Hind femora very 

 robust and long, extending considerably beyond the tip of the abdomen, the genicular lobes sinuate on 



