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Allotype. — 9 ; data same as the tj'pe. 



Description of Allotype. — Similar to type, very slightly larger. Lateral 

 lobes of pronotiim longer with caudal margin straight and humeral sinus 

 obsolete. Tegmina lanceolate with rather sharply rounded apex, half as long 

 as abdomen; wings very shghtly longer. Ovipositor longer than caudal femur, 

 straight. The subgenital plate embraces the base of the ovipositor and has 

 the distal margin broadly arcuate. 



Measurements {in miUimeters) 

 Length of Length of Length of Length of Length of Length of 

 body pronotum tegmen caudal femur cercus ovipositor 



Type, d". 17.2 3.7 7.1 13.4 2.1 



Paratype, d'. 16.7 3.9 8.8 14.2 2.1 



Allotype, 9. 16.7 4.1 6 14.4 15.2 



Paratype, 9. 16.8 4.1 5.6 14,9 15.6 



In the paratypic female before us the ovipositor shows a very 

 shght curvature. 



Coloration. — Dorsum of head and pronotum with a very broad 

 median band of cinnamon brown, margined laterad with Ught 

 buff. Eyes tawny. Tegmina and wings transparent and pale 

 buff. Abdomen (of male) uniform ochraceous tawny including 

 cerci, (of female) dorso-proximal and entire distal portion 

 including ovipositor cinnamon brown tinged with tawny. The 

 remaining portions of head, body and limbs, including the gen- 

 icular areas of the caudal femora, Vanderpoel's green (Ridgeway). 

 The allotype has alone retained in large measure the original 

 coloration. 



The present material was taken among luxuriant grasses 

 growing in the openings of the almost impenetrable jungles of 

 palm, huisache, ebony and many other trees, which occupy the 

 low country along the Rio Grande below Brownsville. 



Specimens Examined: 6; 2 males, 2 females, 1 immature male and 1 inmiaturc 

 female. 



Piper Plantation near Brownsville, Texas, VIII, 3, 1912, (R. & H.), 2 cT, 

 2 9 , type, allotype and parntypes, 1 juv. cT, 1 juv. 9 . 

 Conocephalus nemoralis (Scudder) (PI. XVI, figs. 8 and 9; XMI, 8; 



XVIII, 15 and 16; XIX, 12; XX, 9.) 

 1875. Xiphidium nemorale Scudder,^^ Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, p. 462. 



[Dallas County, Iowa.] 

 1891. Xiphidium curlipenne Redtenl)acher, Verb. Zool.-botan. Gesell. Wien, 



xli, pp. 498, 522. [Missouri.] 



'^ Single type here designated: c? ; Dallas County, Iowa, IX, 3, (J. A. Allen), 

 [M. C. Z.]. Measurements; length of body 10.8, of tegmen 8, of caudal femur 

 12.2 mm. 



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