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7? mm. Length of fore femora, $, 6.5 mm.: 9, 6.25 mm. Hind 

 femora, $, 28 mm.; ?, 28.5 mm. Subgenital plate, 6 mm. Ovipositor, 

 9.5 mm. 



1(J, 1 9, Tepic, Mexico, Prof. L. Bruner. 



I do not feel entirely confident of the distinctness of this species from 

 S. paron(E Griff., from Panama, which I know only by descrij^tion. The 

 greatest apparent difference is in the total absence in the single male at 

 hand of any sign of the characteristic median compressed lamina, depend- 

 ing between the cerci from the base of the anal segment; but as the 

 presence of this lamina has been determined in every other species of 

 Scudderia I have seen which has a pistillate anal segment, I do not feel 

 sure that it is not present and crowded forward beyond and hidden by 

 the anal cerci, which in this specimen completely hide from view any- 

 thing there may be in such a place ; dissection only could determine this 

 point. The minor points of difference from S. paronce (judging by the 

 descriptions of the latter, which are unusually full) are the somewhat 

 larger size and considerably longer members, the presence of lateral 

 canthi on the pronotum, the considerably greater proportionate length of 

 the tegmina to the hind femora, which they much surpass, the flexuosity 

 of the principal vein, the forking of the radial branch at and not before 

 the middle, the spiniferous lower margin of the fore femora, the greater 

 number of spines on the lower margins of the hind femora and their 

 wholly black color, the fewer spines of the fore tibiae and the greater 

 length of the subgenital plate relative to the anal segment. 



7. Scudderia paronae. 



Scudderia paronce Griff., Boll. Mus. Zool. Univ. Tor., XI., No. 232, 11- 



13 (1896). 

 « Sauss.-Pict., Biol. Centr. Amer., Orth., 328, 329, 330 

 (1897). 

 I have not seen this species, but it must be closely allied to the last. 

 Only the male is known and is reported from Colon, Panama, by Griffini 

 and in the Biologia. 



8. Scudderia furcifera, sp. nov. Fig. 7. 



Green, often more or less testaceo-flavescent, the lateral canthi of pro- 

 notum usually narrowly luteous, the face lutescent. Eyes moderately 

 large and prominent. Fastigium of the vertex apically strongly com- 

 pressed, superiorly emarginate, in close contact with the frontal fastigium. 

 Autennaj luteo-rufescent, uniform except for a lack of rufescence next 



