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COLOMBIAN BERMAPTERA AND ORTHOPTERA 
Hyporhicnoda metae new si^ecies (Plate X, figures 29 and 30.) 
C'()ni])are(l with Panamanian females of the genotype, H. 
reflcxa (Saussnre and Zehntner), in the Philadelphia Collections, 
the female sex of the present species is seen to differ in its broader 
form, in lacking a medio-longitndinal carina on the pronotum, 
inesonotnm and metanotinn, in lacking rugae on the caudal mar- 
gins of the dorsal segments, and in the heavier, though evidently 
much atrophied, limb armament. 
From the genus Rhicnoda it differs in this sex in the distinctly 
rcflexed pronotum, broader form, lack of rugae, absence of even 
rudimentary tegniina and reduced limb armament. 
The male, we lielieve, will be found to have fully developed 
organs of flight and a very different form, but, as in reflexa, show- 
ing many features which readily enable the proper sex association. 
Type . — 9 ; \dllavicencio, Intendencia del Meta, Colombia, 
Klevation, 1400 feet. December, 1918. (From A. Maria.) 
[Hebard ('ollection. Type no. 667.] 
Size medium, form broad elliptical. Head hidden under pronotum. Head 
with surface of occijiut polished and not impresso-j;)unctate; eyes widely 
separated by a distance very slightly greater than that between the weakly 
defined ocellar si)ots; exposed surface of head very weakly and irregularly 
impresso-i)unctate and hairy, this heaviest in the flattened inter-ocular- 
occllar area. Antennae short. Pronotum extending well beyond head, 
di.stinctly cucullate, the convexity beneath which the head fits distinct, with- 
out the lateral rugae found in reflexa, cephalic margin not thickened, evenly 
convex and moderately reflexed to the latero-caudal angles, which are weakly 
jiroduced caudad; caudal margin very weakly concave on each side and very 
weakly (“onvex mesad. Entire dorsal surface apparently smooth, but under 
high magnification seen to be thickly supidied with minute but well project- 
ing, irregularly rounded rugae, these weakening and becoming less numerous 
caudad.^* Tegmina and wings absent. 
Hupra-anal plate heavily chitinous, over twice as broad as long, the free 
margin convex, showing slight flattening laterad and a trace of median emar- 
gination. Cerci very short and lamellate, scareely projecting beyond the 
body outline. Subgenital plate very large, simple. 
Limbs showing some degree of atrojjhy of all spines, surfaces slightly 
roughened. Ventro-cei)halic margin of cei)halic femora armed with three 
(two to six in paratypes) heavy, irregular and irregularly placed spines, 
succeeded by an irregular row of rather elongate chaetiform sj)ines, termi- 
nated by a small but heavy, though plainly decidedlj’ atrophied, distal spine 
d'he structure of the cet)halic and dorsal surface is such that all of the 
individuals before us are heavily coalt'd with foreigTi i)ar1icles. 
