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liBCOUDS OF HLATTIDA?] ( ()HTH0PTERA) 
fc('l coiifidciil lhal (he iianu' parri ix’iutin is l)ase(l on a condii ion 
of tlu' pn-scid specie's in which I he tegniina are somewhat re- 
duced, tlie wings (h'cide'dly so. The specina'ii from Atoyac, as 
w('ll as (wo of lhr('(' individuals befoi’e us from ('acao, Trecc 
Aguas, Aha \'('ra I’az, ( luale'inahi, sliow that condition. 
Anaplecta saussurei' new sjeecios (Plate Xlll, tifiure 1.) 
'I'his very small species appt'ars to be nearest in relationshij) 
to A. cllipticd Saussma’ and Ze'hntnei', described from (luatemal.a. 
In size' it is smalk'r, being one of the most diminutive species of 
(he genus. 
In coloration it agre'cs with paler individuals of the dark brown 
si)eci('s, such as A. hiterdli.s Burnieister. It is darker than a 
s])('cimen of A. dotnedica Saussure and Zehntner before us. 
d'h(' t('gmina show an even grt'ater angulation of the costal 
margin than Hgun'd for A. (Icci})icn.s Saussure and ZehntiK'rb due 
to tlu' more decidc'd oblirpiity of that margin disttid. The form 
of (he wing and its vc'iiation is very similar to that figured for 
clliplim? 
Tfipe . — cf ; \'('i'a (’ruz, Vera Cruz, Mexico. (Rev. T. Heyde.) 
[Ib'bard Colh'ction, Type no. 755.] 
Size very .siiuill, form elliptical. Head slightly longer than broad, width 
between antennal sockets two-thirds that between eyes; interocellar area 
forming, with margins of ocellar areas, a i)rojecting but rounded ridge above 
each antennal socket; ocellar spots ob.solete.'* Pronotum transverse, nc'arly 
rectangulat.e-oval, narrowing very slightly more cephalad than caudad. 
d'c'gmina reaching slightly beyond cereal apices, rather narrow, costal anil 
sutural margins showing very faint conve.xity, the former suddenly rather 
strongly ol)hi|ue in distal fourth to the bluntly rounded apex; costal veins 
(seven oi' eight) with intervi'iiing irregular veiidets, the distal portion of (his 
area occiiiiied by an irri'gular net work of veinlets; median and proximal jior- 
( ion of ulnar vi'in aloni' d(‘V('lo|)ed, these diseoidal sectors longitudinal. 
Wings with ajijiendicular fii'ld longin' than broad, forked mediastine vein 
extending beyond median jiortion of laistal margin, (four) costal veins scarci'ly 
thickened distad; broad medio-diseoidal ari'a with a vein which curves ob- 
h(|uelv distad irom the di.seoidal vein to the apex of the median vein, from 
' In honor ol lliniri de Sau.ssuri'. 'I'hi' collections personally made by (hat 
distinguished autlioi' si'i'v'ed him as a basis for till' deseription of a consider- 
able ju'oportion ol the known specie's of Mexican Orthoptera. 
" Piol. Cent. .\m., Orth., i*|)l. i\, fig. 1 I. 
^ Hiol. Cent. -Am., Orth., i, pi. iv, (ig, S. 
' Probably due to discoloration. 
