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femur 24.7., length of ovipositor 22.3, greatest width of ovipositor 



3.1 mm. 



Salomona conspersa St&l. 



1877. S[alomona] conspersa Stal, Ofv. K. Vetensk.-Akad. Forh., 1877, 

 No. 10, p. 46. [d", Philippine Islands.] 



Butuan, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, (from C. F. Baker), 1 9 • 



Dapitan, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, (from C. F. Baker), 

 1 large juv. 9 . 



In spite of the very inadequate original description, we believe 

 the present insect to be correctly located. The only feature in 

 any way disturbing is that Stal gives, for the male length, including 

 the tegmina, 58 mm., this dimension being, for the female before 

 us, only 51 mm. Such decided size variation has, however, been 

 recorded for other species of Salomona. 



The general coloration is clay color, the mandibles and spines 

 black, the tegmina with numerous very small flecks of blackish 

 brown. The antennae have the first two joints clay color, the 

 others chestnut-brown, solidly so distad, but in greater portion 

 with intersections between the joints clay color. The ovipositor 

 is much as in S. nigripes here described. 



The vertex is exactly as in S.maculifrons Stal, its fastigium short, 

 straight, acute conical, strongly ascendant, dorsad with a small 

 tubercle at its base and with cephalic surface somewhat swollen. 

 The structure is slightly more robust, with head broader than in 

 that species; the face and genae much less deeply impresso-punctate,. 

 best described as thickly covered with shallow but large impressed 

 puncta. The ovipositor differs from that of maculifrons in not 

 tapering as markedly distad to the apex, which is distinctly less 

 acute. 



Had it been included, the species would have been placed in a 

 different section of Redtenbacher's, Brongniart's and Karny's keys 

 to the genus from maculifrons, due to the facial sculpture. Never- 

 theless, it is clear that these species are more closely related 

 to each other than to the other species of Salomona here discussed. 



Length of body 41, width of head 8.8, length of pronotum 10.8, 



cauial width of pronotal disk 5.9, length of tegmen 35.1, median 



width of tegmen 8.6, length of cephalic femur 13, length of caudal 



femur 22.7, length of ovipositor 20.2, greatest width of ovipositor 



2.8 mm. 



Salomona maculifrons Stal. 



1877. Salomona maculifrons Stal, Ofv. K. Vetensk.-Akad. Forh., 1877, 

 No. 10, p. 46. [d\ Philippine Islands.] 



