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The other portions of the tegmina are javel green, with numerous 

 short, linear streaks of purplish black, the sutural margin yellow 

 ocher, interrupted by heavy flecks of blackish brown, which 

 become smaller and are marginal in position distad. 



Length of body 32, length of pronotum 12.7, 34 caudal width of 

 pronotum 9.7, length of tegmen 41, greatest width of tegmen 22.1, 

 length of caudal femur 16.7, length of ovipositor 12.8 mm. 



Liotrachela cryptisema 35 new species^. Plate XIV, figure 7. 



The unique female before us of this species is distinguished from 

 its close ally, L. minuta Brunner, by the more slender form, dis- 

 tinctly narrower tegmina, slightly longer ovipositor and antennal 

 coloration. In these appendages the first joint is blackish brown 

 dorso-distad, the second joint solidly blackish brown, in striking 

 contrast to the other portions which are of the pale general color- 

 ation. 



Type: 9 ; Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. (From C. F. 

 Baker.) [Hebard Collection, Type no. 803.] 



Size small and form slender for the genus. Vertex narrow, 

 scarcely wider than the first antennal joint proximad, narrowing 

 strongly, then with margins parallel to the blunt apex, with a 

 linear sulcation to near apex;declivent in proximal portion, weakly 

 declivent in distal portion. Pronotum with disk flattened, its 

 lateral margins sharply rounded; lateral lobes distinctly higher 

 than wide. Tegmina elongate, slender for the genus; first branch 

 of median vein very weakly oblique, branching a short distance 

 beyond its median point; second branch distal, strongly oblique, 

 unbranched. Cephalic tibiae flattened dorsad, subsulcate briefly 

 beyond proximal portion. Ovipositor short, broad, with lateral 

 surfaces weakly and minutely tuberculate, curved strongly upward 

 proximad, apex rounded, dorsal margin to near base and distal 

 third of ventral margin armed with minute, even, rounded teeth. 

 Subgenital plate longer than broad, with lateral margins weakly 

 convex and convergent to the sharply rounded apex. Ventral 

 femoral margins armed with small spines as follows. Cephalic 

 internal 3 and 4, cephalic external 0, median internal 0, median 

 external 1 and 2, caudal internal 9 and 11, caudal external 10 and 11. 



Coloration yellowish, probably green in life, the antennae marked 

 as described above. Spines black tipped, except those of cephalic 

 tibiae. 



Length of body 20, length of pronotum 5.6, caudal width of 

 pronotum 4.2, depth of pronotal lateral lobe 4.8, width of pronotal 



34 Though given as 18 mm. for the type, the figure shows this dimension to be 

 11.9 for that specimen. 



36 In allusion to the easily overlooked, but apparently diagnostic, antennal 

 marking. 



