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bears over all a faint but noticeable "bloom" of ecru-drab, such as is 

 found in some other species of the genus. Wings with the disk scarlet- 

 vermilion; fuscous band rather faint, prout's brown in color, and al)- 

 sent toward the costal margin, ulnar taenia very slight, apex slightly 

 suffused and the apical half of the costal margin strongly and narrowly 

 marked with vandyke brown. Abdomen fawn color. Caudal femora 

 dorsad and ventrad cinnamon clouded with mars brown, lateral face 

 dull hoary with a median streak of blue-black, varying in length on 

 the two femora, extending nearly the entire length in one, and not pass- 

 ing the middle in the other; genicular region blackish; internal face 

 gallstone yellow with two bars of black, one of which suffuses the ven- 

 tral sulcus. Caudal tibiae greenish-white at the base (immediate base 

 blackish), distal half scarlet, separated by an annulus of blackish ; spine 



tipped with blackish. 



Measurements. 



Length of body, 28 mm. 



Length of pronotum 5.5 " 



Caudal waclth of pronotum, 5 



Jiength of tegmen, 25 



Greatest width of tegmen, 4.5 " 



Greatest width of wing, 12.5 



Length of caudal femur, 13.5 " > 



The type is the only specimen seen. 



Subfamily PYRGOMORPHIN.C. 



PROSPHENA Bolivar. 



1884. Prosphena Bolivar, Anal. Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., XIII, p. 447. 



Type. — P. scudderi Bolivar. 



Prosphena scudderi Bolivar. 



1884. Prosphena Scudderi Bolivar, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., XIII, 

 p. 447. [Guatemala.] 



Tarbaca, Costa Rica. November and December, 1902. (C. F. 

 Underwood.) [A. N. S. Phila.] Three males. 



Previously known only from the type locality. The specimens range 

 in color from greenish-yellow to dull green, the tegmina solid dull 

 brownish, the caudal tibiae and tarsi suffused with crimson to a variable 

 extent, the spines yellow with the tips black. 



Subfamily LOCUSTIN^. 

 MTJNATIA St&l. 

 1875. Munatia Stal, Bihang till K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., Ill, No. 14, 

 p. 28. 



Type. — M. punctata Stal. 



