268 STUDIES IN AMERICAN TETTIGONIIDAE (oRTHOPTERa) 



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Contamano, Peru . . 13.5 3.4 19.2 13.9 1.9 



Gualaquiza, Ecuador, 



imrahji>e 11 2.9 12.2 .... 1.7 



Length of 

 $ ovipositor 



Rio Mato, Vene- 

 zuela U 3.3 18.7 14 7.4 



Bartica,British Gui- 

 ana 13-14.5 3.3-3.7 18.7-19 13.4-14.2 7.2-8'° 



Contamano, Peru. . 13.8-14.2 3.3-3.4 19-19.5 13.9-14.7 7.7-7.9 



Gualaquiza, Ecuador, 



pamiupe. 12 3 13.3 12.4 7.2 'i 



A female before us from Perene, Peru, has the ovipositor length 

 8.3 mm. 



We have thought it best to give the measurements of the two 

 paratypes before us from Ecuador, for although inseparable 

 from the other specimens here recorded, they, and as is shown by 

 Giglio-Tos in his description, the entire series from Ecuador, are 

 decidedly smaller with shorter tegmina. This variation may, 

 however, be due rather to local environmental conditions than 

 to purely geographic influences. 



The type series is dried alcoholic, fresh material before us shows 

 the following coloration. Male: Head and pronotum (except- 

 ing the very dark medio-dorsal brownish black stripe), thorax, 

 exposed portions of the five proximal dorsal alxlominal segments, 

 entire ventral surface of abdomen, cerci, sul:)genital plate, cephalic 

 and median limbs and bases of caudal femora, lettuce green. 

 Proximal (concealed) portion of dorsum of abdomen dark brown 

 mesad, bordered laterad with yellowish, distal four dorsal seg- 

 ments of abdomen and adjacent portions of caudal femora ochra- 

 ceous orange fading gradually into the green portions. Tegmina 



'° A single female in this series has the ovipositor unusually long, 9.9 mm. in 

 length. 



"Giglio-Tos gives 7.5-8 nun. as tlie extremes of ovipositor length in the 

 type series. Our measurement is taken, as elsewhere in the ]:)resen1 jjaper, 

 from the base of the basal plica to the ai)e\ of the ovipositor; his, doubtless 

 from the juncture of subgenital plate and ovipositor to apex of the latter, 

 thus adding on an average about .4 mm. to the ovipositor length when com- 

 pared with our methoil of measuring the same. 



