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broad, slightly narrowing dorsad, failing to reach the clypeal sulcus by 

 a considerable distance, biseriate and irregularly punctate, not sulcate; 

 eye but little longer than broad, in length very slightly greater than 

 the infra-ocular sulcus ; antennas in length somewhat greater than the 

 length of the head and pronotum together, depressed, blunt. Pronotum 

 slightly longer than the head, carinae distinct, the lateral subparallel to 

 the first transverse sulcus, slightly and regularly expanding to the caudal 

 margin ; cephalic and caudal margins broadly obtuse-angulate, that of the 

 caudal margin more marked than of the cephalic, principal trans- 

 verse sulcus cutting the median carina about in the middle; lateral 

 lobes regularly but not greatly narrowed ventrad, the ventral width 

 contained about once and a half in the depth. Interspace between 

 the mesosternal lobes nearly twice as broad as long; interspace between 

 the metasternal lobes cuneiform. Tegmina reaching to the tips 

 of the cerci, inflated the broad costal field extending practically 

 to the apex, which is narrowly rounded and nearer the sutural 

 than the costal margin; anal field with its margin gently arcuate. 

 Wings considerably shorter than the tegmina. Cephalic and median 

 limbs not inflated. Caudal femora slightly longer than the tegmina, the 

 .greatest width contained about three and a half times in the length; 

 caudal tibiae with thirteen spines on the external margin. 



General color ecru drab marked with seal brown. Head with a line 

 ventrad of the foveolae, the infra-ocular sulcus and a line behind the 

 eyes seal brown, while the dorsal aspect of the head is broccoli brown; 

 antennae drab except proximad where the general color is present. 

 Pronotum with the maculations on the lateral lobes usually found in 

 this genus seal brown, with a general tone of broccoli brown dorsad, 

 marked mesad of the lateral lobes with clove brown, which fades toward 

 the median carina. Tegmina wood brown with a number of irregularly 

 placed faint maculations. Abdomen marked with clove brown as 

 usual in the genus. Caudal femur with three oblique fasciae on the 

 dorsal half of the lateral face, seal brown in color, a cloud of the same 

 color is present at the base of the ventral section of the genicular lobes 

 and the genicular arches are clove brown; caudal tibiae vermilion, pale 

 proximad and distad, spines black in their apical half. 



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Length of body 14.5 mm. 



Length of pronotum 3 mm. 



Length of tegmcn 8.5 mm. 



Length of caudal femur 9.6 mm. 



A paratypic male has also been examined. 



Stirapleura decussata Scudder. 



South Creek, Beaver County; Beaver Creek Hills, Beaver 

 County. 



