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dd. General form only moderately robust, the tegmina and wings 

 reaching or surpassing the tip of the abdomen or apex 

 of hind femora. Wings with a varying portion more 

 or less red or roseate. The hind femora fasciate. 

 e. Body and legs not black spotted. 



f. Tegmina for the most part olivaceous or greenish, but 



slightly maculate with dusky permistus Serv. 



ff. Tegmina decidedly obscure maculate. 



g. Anterior and middle legs not largely black ; general 

 color dull testaceous, inclining to brown. 



paraguayensis Brunner. 

 gg. Anterior and middle legs largely black, 

 h. Pronotum for the most part black, the bands bright 

 yellow, head and knees ornamented with red. 



schulzi Brunner. 



hh. Pronotum when black only so on the anterior lobe, 

 the bands testaceous. Head and knees without red. 



argentinus Pict. et Sauss. 

 ee. Body and legs conspicuously conspersed with black. 



f. Body and legs strongly tinged with rufous or red. An- 

 tennae unicolorous, black pycnostictus Pict. et Sauss. 

 ff. Body and legs along with tegmina greenish or olivaceous. 

 Antennae annulate with pale communis Bruner. 



Leptysma filiformis Serville. 



A single male locust bearing the number 403 is referred 

 here with some doubt, but by referring to the table for separ- 

 ating certain South American species of the genus (Proc. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., xxx, p. 658 ), it will be found that the speci- 

 men at hand falls in with what has been accepted as the above 

 species. 



Adimantns ornatissimus Burmeister. 



A very beautifully marked female locust numbered 409 is 

 placed as Burmeister's Oxya ornatissimus. It agrees well with 

 other specimens in the writer's collection that have been called 

 the Acridium ritticcps Blanchard. (See Paraguayan Locusts, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxx, p. 666). 



Schistocerca paranensis (Burmeister). 



A female specimen of this destructive migratory species is 

 included without a number and indicates that Puerto Bertoni 

 is within its range. 



