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out intercallary vein, scapular area very slightly expanded, the veins parallel; 

 wings unicolorous, with veins not swollen. Legs moderately slender; all femora 

 unarmed both above and below, the geniculations rounded; tibiae spined above 

 only, the posterior ones with twelve to fourteen spines in the outer series, none 

 next the apical spur. 



Type. Geea conspicua, Caudell. 



Geea conspicua, n. sp. 



Description, fema/e, the male unknown. This is a large showy locust of a green 

 and black, or dark brown, color in strong contrast. The entire body is blackish 

 above, growing lighter laterally, the clypeus and lower part of the head greenish, 

 the breast and lower surface of the abdomen brownish; antennae, of which all 

 but 11 mm. of the basal portion is missing, entirely piceous and the eyes brown; 

 pronotal disk with a moderately broad median stripe which continues slightly 

 on to the occiput, vanishing before reaching the eyes; the eyes are narrowly 

 margined with yellow and the anterior aspect of the vertex is of the same color, 

 and a streak of yellow extends down each side of the face, from the base of the 

 antennae to the outer margins of the clypeus; ocelli red. Tegmina almost 

 entirely membranous, slightly coriaceous basally, dark brown in color except 

 the anal margin, which is bright green for the entire length, reaching to near 

 the tip of the tegmina, wings uniformly hyaline, the membrane made dusky by 

 innumerable microscopic black specks, and a slight greenish tinge along the 

 anal margin; the veins black. Fore and middle legs bluish green, the femora 

 yellowish ventrally; hind femora green on the outer face, yellowish beneath and 

 on the inner side, the apex black and with a preapical black band; hind tibiae 

 dark blue with a broad subbasal greenish yellow band, the spines light in the 

 basal half and piceous in the apical half; tarsi light yellowish with slight dark 

 variegation. 



Length, pronotum, 7 mm.; tegmina, 35 mm.; posterior femora, 22 mm. 



Described from a single female, the type. 

 Type in Collection U. S. National Museum. 

 Catalogue No. 22975. 



Phlaeoba brachyptera, n. sp. (Truxalinae). 



The abbreviated wings of this species will serve to distinguish 

 it from the other members of the genus, to none of which it 

 appears very closely allied. 



Description, male and female. General color wood-brown. Head about 

 as long as the pronotum in the male, noticeably shorter in the female; vertex 

 acuteangulate in male, rectangulate in female, extending beyond the eyes a 

 distance a little greater than the interocular space, dorsally shallowly sulcate in 

 front of the eyes, convex posterior of that point, the transition from the concave 

 to convex being sudden and conspicuous; there is a distinct median carina 

 extending for the entire length of the concave portion of the vertex and con- 

 tinued some distance back on to the convex portion; face very rapidly retreating 

 in the upper part, more gradually below; frontal costa persistent and very nar- 

 row, expanding somewhat below, the sides about as elevated as the lateral facial 



