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as the tegmina, decidedly inflated in the proximal two-thirds, distal 

 portion narrow, lateral margin with five to six distal spines, internal 

 margin with one or two distal spines ; caudal tibiae subequal to the fem- 

 ora in length, very slightly bowed. 



General color ochraceous, the limbs approaching tawny ochraceous; 

 dorsum of head and entire dorsum of pronotum brownish black, this 

 narrowing cephalad and extending over the dorsal surface of the 

 fastigium ; genicular regions of the femora and tibiae, a spot at the 

 distal extremity of tympanal slit and less clearly defined areas at the 

 tips of the tibiae brownish black; eyes chestnut; antennal scrobes 

 brownish black ; tegmina with the anal field strongly suffused with 

 dark brownish, costal and discoidal fields with a few scattered irregu- 

 lar spots of brownish black. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Type $ 5 



Length of body 22.5 mm. 26.5 mm. 



Length of pronotum 9.2 mm. 8.5 mm. 



Greatest (caudal) dorsal width of pronotum 4.2 mm. 4. mm. 



Length of tegmen 13.5 mm. 16. mm. 



Length of caudal femur 13. mm. 16.2 mm. 



Length of ovipositor 13. mm. 



A female of this species taken by Schrottky at the type locality 



(without recorded date) gives the measurements entered in the above 



table with those of the type. The characters of disagreement with 



the male description are here given. 



Pronotum with caudal development of 

 disk much less than in male, although of 

 similar shape; caudal margin of lateral 

 lobes slightly sigmoid, the humeral sinus 

 hardly marked. Ovipositor nearly equal 

 to caudal femora in length, rather broad, 



of ovipositor of female type f a i cate ; subgenital plate small, produced 



\ X 2 ). 



trigonal ; apex rather broadly fissate. Color 

 as in male, ovipositor of general color. 



Lutosa* paranensis n. sp. 



Type. $ ; Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay. October, 1909. 

 (Bertoni, No. 410). [A. N. S. P., type No. 5177.] 



Allied to L. brasiliensis (Brunner), from Santa Catharina, 

 Brazil, from which it differs in the hardly curved caudal tibiae 

 and considerably smaller size. 



*Pherterus of authors. 



