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slightly concave; eyes ovoid, rather small, not at all prominent when 



seen from the dorsum; antennae with the node on the proximal joint 



well developed, the tips of the antennae surpassing the tips of the 



tegmina. Pronotum of the general type found in the 



genus, narrow cephalad, regularly and considerably 



expanding caudad, the greatest width contained one 



and one-quarter times in the length of the same, 



F' 34 — A^ - cephalic margin of the disk truncate, caudal margin 



o X ah e a arcuato-sinuate laterad, disk with a pronounced trans- 



hrevipes^n.^ verse sulcus near the caudal margin, immediately 



outline o f cephalad of which is an incomplete circular sulcus, the 



pronotum imperfect portion of which is cephalad; ventral margins 



(X 4.) of the lateral lobes but little projecting, when seen 



from the lateral aspect this margin is slightly emargi- 



nato-sinuate dorsad of the insertion of the limbs, slightly arcuato- 



lobate immediately caudad of the same. Tegmina slightly more 



than twice the length of the head and pronotum together, of the 



general character found in females of this genus ; dorsal field with the 



general pattern of the venation regularly oblique, the areas more 



regular, more numerous and smaller than in N. bipunctata; lateral 



field broad, deeper than the breadth of the dorsal field, reticulations 



more numerous and smaller than in N. bipunctata. Wings projecting 



caudad of the tegmina a distance equal to nearly two-thirds the 



tegminal length. Ovipositor shorter than the combined length of 



Fig. 35. — Neoxabea brevipes n. sp. Out- Fig. 36. — Neoxabea brevipes n. sp. Cau- 

 line of cephalic limb of type. (X 3.) dal tarsus of type. (X 6.) 



the head and pronotum. Cephalic and median limbs very short, 

 the cephalic femora hardly as long as the head; cephalic tibiae very 

 slightly longer than the femora, the inflated area surrounding the 

 tympanum slightly longer than the narrow subequal distal extremity. 

 Median limbs equally short as the cephalic ones. Caudal femora 

 about two-thirds the length of the tegmina, when extended caudad 

 reaching only to the base of the ovipositor, slender; caudal tibiae 

 slightly longer than the femora; caudal tarsi very short when com- 

 pared with those of bipunctata, the metatarsi comparatively shorter, 

 no long than, instead of distinctly longer than, the remaining joints 

 of the tarsi. 



