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faintly more than half the length of the median one ; disto-internal 

 spurs two in number, the dorsal one five-eighths of the length of the 

 metatarsus, the ventral one two-thirds the length of the dorsal one: 

 caudal metatarsi contained about four and one-half times in the length 

 of the til)ise, the dorsal surface armed distad with a pair of spines, 

 distal spur of the external side two-thirds as long as the internal one. 



General color straw yellow, the tegmina more clear yellow ocher, 

 the head with an indefinite tawny wash, the caudate port en of the 

 wings, when closed, washed with weak buckthorn bro^\^l. Eyes 

 cinnamon brown. 



Length of body, 7.9 mm.; length of pronotum, 1.2; greatest caudal 

 width of pronotum, 1.9; length of tegmen, 6; greatest width of dor- 

 sum of tegmen, 2.5; length of exposed caudate section of wing, 5; 

 length of caudal femur, 6. 



The type of this species is unique. 

 Anaxipha stramenticia n. sp. (PL II, figs. 67-70.) 



This species is apparently more closely related to granadensis 

 (Rehn), from Nicaragua, championi (Saussure), from Panama, and 

 fistulator, described above, than to the other species known to us. 

 From granadensis it differs chiefly in the different profile of the head, 

 this having the occiput and fastigium very much less deplanate de- 

 clivent, in the distal palpal joint being very strongly oblique truncate 

 distad, in the more quadrate lateral lobes of the pronotum, in the 

 dorso-internal spur of the caudal tibiae being half as long as the meta- 

 tarsus, and the caudal metatarsal internal spur distinctly surpassing 

 the second tarsal joint, in the sparser tegminal venation of the female 

 (the only sex known oi granadensis) and in the exact shape of the apex 

 of the ovipositor. From championi the new form differs chiefly in 

 the obliquely truncate distal margin of the distal palpal joint and the 

 more decidedly slender distal portion of the cephalic femora, while 

 from fistulator it is distinguished chiefly by its smaller size, more 

 sharply narrowed cephalic tibiae, less strongly transverse pronotum 

 and less attenuate caudal femora. 



Type: &; Para, State of Para, Brazil. (C. F. Baker.) [Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., Type no. 5345.] 



Size medium (for the genus) : form relatively elongate, the wings 

 caudate: body and limbs thickly clothed with short hairs, on the 

 head and pronotum many are more elongate and chsetiform. Head 

 broad cordiform when seen from the cephalic aspect, the greatest 

 width across the eyes not exceeded by the depth of the head, the occi- 

 pital line moderately arcuate when seen from the front; in lateral 



