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Head with occiput and a vertical median band on face of shining blackish 
!>rown, the latter narrowest above the clypeus; lateral portions of face light 
ochraeeous-butT, this slightly invading the band at the ocellar spots. Prono- 
lum shining blackish brown. excei)t for a moderately broad and shari)ly defined 
band of warm bull', which runs around the lateral and cephalic margins and 
is slightly widest caiulad and a large, meso-caudal, bluntly and irregularly 
crescent-sha]ied marking of ochraceous-buff, which has caudad at each 
side of the median line a minute triangular invasion of the dark coloration. 
Dorsal surface of abdomen saccardos umber, sulTu.sed with blackish chest- 
nut brown distad, broadly margined with light ochraceous-bufT. Tegmina 
translucent tawny, excejtt in area of humeral trunk, where they are heavily 
suffused with blackish chestnut brown as far as opitosite the ajtex of the 
anal field, and from this suffusion to costal margin, where they are warm 
buff', this Vn'oad jtale margin narrowing evenly and disappearing before the 
tegminal ai)ex. Wings transiiarent, faintly tinged with prout’s brown except 
in areas of branched veins, where this is lieavy, veins prout’s brown, this some- 
what heaviest in marginal portion of costal field. Limbs warm buff, the 
coxae each with a heavv blotch jiroximad of blackish brown, the spines russet, 
this tinging the dist.al jiortion of the tibiae and the tarsal joints, ^'entral 
surface of abdomen blackish brown, broadly margined laterad with warm buff. 
Length of body, 17; length of pronotum, 4.9; width of pronotum, 6.2. 
length of teg n-^n, 19.1; width of tegmen, 6.2; length of caudal tibia, 7 mm; 
The ty])e of this haiidsoine insect is unitiue. 
Xestoblatta micra-" new sjiecies (Plate '\HII, figures 12 and l.'L) 
'riiis, tile smallest known spiaaes of the Kenus, shows in color- 
ation and markinjrs nearest agi-eenient with X. carrikeri Heliard, 
descrilied from the Santa Marta region of (’olombia. 
The male secondary sexual characters show, however, a develop- 
ment in some resjiects analogous to tliat found in .Y. festae 
Hdriffini), though far less specialized. • 
In linear arrangement the species shotdd be placed after carri- 
keri and before /c6'fac. 
T]i/)e . — d^; Las Mesitas, ('undinamarca, ('olombia. Eleva- 
tion, 3200 feet. May, 1918. (From A. Maria.) [Hebard Col- 
lection, Type no. 547.] 
Size small, form broad for the genus. Interocular sjaice wide (1.4 mm.j, 
slightly wider than that between the ocellar spots, four-fifths as wide as that 
between antennal sockets. Ocellar areas weakly defined, but ocellar spots 
strikingly pale. Pronotum as characteristic for Xestoblatta 
Tegmina and wings reaching beyond apex of abdomen a distance .somewhat 
less than the length of the caudal tarsal joints, venation as characteristic of 
the genus. Latcro-cavidal angles of fovirth, fifth and sixth abdominal tergitos 
From U'.Kpi = small. 
TRAXS. A.M. EXT. SOC., XLVII. 
