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oblique, poiuted at the apex. Antennae somewhat flattened and often shghtly 

 enlarged near the base. Pronotum about as long as the head, contracted 

 slightly in the middle ; the three carinse distinct, cut a little behind the 

 middle by a cross incision, the lateral curving inward slightly on the anterior 

 lobe. Elytra, wings, and posterior femora passing the abdomen. 



Color. — Face and sides of the head green ; antennae and palpi carneous ; 

 eyes brownish ; a pale reddish-brown or carneous stripe reaches from the 

 vertex to the hind border of the pronotum, bordered each side by a dark 

 fuscous stripe. Sides of the pronotum green, with a fuscous stripe along the 

 middle; the posterior lobe punctured on the sides. Middle field and upper 

 margin of the elytra green ; the green of the middle field serrated above by 

 the notches of the fuscous portion, which occupies the upper (posterioi") half; 

 lower (anterior) margin fuscous. Wings transparent, tinged with greenish- 

 yellow at the base ; nerves dusky ; apex slightly fuliginous. The upper half 

 of the disk of the posterior femora green, lower half yellowish or reddish; 

 posterior tibiae pale at base, apical portion dusky ; spines yellowish, tipped 

 with black. Alcohol changes the green and carneous to a pale dull-yellow ; 

 otherwise the markings remain unchanged, except that they are somewhat 

 faded. 



Male — The following, discovered the present season, I take to be the 

 male of this species, though the evidence on this point is not positive: 

 Head above slightly ascei^ling to the vertex, giving the whole head an 

 upward bend ; front conical ; face much sloped. Vertex without lateral 

 foveolae, margins slightly raised, with two inclosed depressions separated by 

 a slight median ridge, which runs foi'ward to the fastigium. Frontal costa 

 quite broad and flat, very slightly sulcate below the ocellus, margins angled; 

 lateral carinae distinct; the face is sloped backward toward the breast so 

 much that the angle it forms with the upper surface is less than forty-five 

 degrees. The pronotum is short, scarcely exceeding the length of the 

 head; sides compressed, nearly parallel, expanding very slightly posteriorly; 

 tricarinate ; the carinae aljout equal, being simply raised lines, very nearly 

 parallel, severed once by the minute posterior sulcus a little behind the 

 middle ; front margin sub-truncate ; posterior margin sub-truncate, rounded ; 

 the lateral margins descending almost straight to the lower angle. Elytra 

 and wings passing the abdomen slightly ; narrow. The sub-anal plate is 

 prolonged in the form of a short, Ijlunt ovipositor. Antennae somewhat 



