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sides rather finely granulose and more or less punctulate, the anterior 

 lobe comparatively smooth. Tegmina and wings about equalling (?) 

 or a little surpassing ($) the apex of the abdomen; the former core- 

 aceous and irregularly and closely veined on basal half, the apical 

 portion somewhat membranous and more evenly and sparsely veined, 

 their apex obliquely truncate; the latter moderately narrow, in the 

 males provided with a prominent vitreous fenestrate area cross- 

 ed by about 10 nearly parallel nervures. Hind femora about normal, 

 in the male extending beyond the tip of the abdomen by the length 

 of the geniculae, in the female just about or not quite reaching the 

 apex of the abdomen. Hind tibiae with 11-12 spines on both the outer 

 and inner edges. Lobes of the mesosternum separated by a space very 

 slightly transverse, their inner edges rounded and gently divergent 

 posteriorly. 



Color above varying from plain grass-green on vertex, top of head, 

 disk of pronotum and dorsal portion of tegmina to dark brown with 

 still darker fleckings on the latter; sides of head, pronotum, pleui a and 

 discal and costal fields of tegmina varying from castaneous to dark 

 brown ; face and legs together with abdomen and venter varying from 

 dull ochreous to dirty testaceous or even pale brown, on the hind 

 femora the upper carinae marked with fuscous or black, the knees 

 dusky, the hind tibiae strongly infuscated with pale black-tipped spines. 

 Antennae testaceous basally, infuscated apically. Upper edge of sides 

 of pronotum lined with deep black, the line crossing over to the outer 

 edges of disk on the hind lobe. 



Length of body, $, 17 mm., $, 24 mm. of pronotum, $, 3.4 mm., 

 $, 5 mm.; of tegmina, $, 14 mm.; 9, 17 mm.; of hind femora, $, 11 

 mm., $, 14.5 mm. 



Habitat. Two males (No. 709) and three females (Nos. 

 718, 707), Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay, where they were taken 

 during the month of January. A. de Winkelried Bertoni col- 

 lector. 



Orphulella punctata De Geer. 



This very widely distributed and variable tropical American 

 locust is represented by several specimens embracing both 

 sexes (Nos. 708, 711, 713 and 727). 



Ommexecha virens Serville. 



The collection contains a single female specimen of a spe- 

 cies of Ommexecha that I have no hesitancy in referring to 

 Serville's virens. It is very similar in form to the next spe- 



