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General color, above olive-green, slightly paler on the tegmina than 

 on the dorsum of the head and pronotum; face, genae, a diagonal line 

 immediately dorsad of the lateral carinae on the cephalic half of the 

 prozona, and a diagonal bar on the caudal half of the lateral lobes 

 chrome yellow, the last-mentioned streak being darker and more 

 ochraceous. Frontal costa and mouth parts of the dorsal color; eyes 

 chestnut; antenna3 dragon's blood red, infuscate apically; dorsal 

 median oblique streak on the lateral lobes of the pronotum suffused with 

 blackish; transverse sulci marked slightly with blackish. Tegmina 

 with the longitudinal veins distinctly and the cross veins slightly 

 marked with wax yellow on a ground of the general color. Cephalic 

 and median femora olive green; caudal femora between apple green 

 and oil green, the ventral face glaucous blue, genicular margin with a 

 narrow edging of rufous; cephalic and median tibiae and tarsi dull 

 ferruginous, caudal tibiae and tarsi poppy red, the spines and spurs 

 narrowly tipped with black. 



Measurements. 



Length of body, 23 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 10 



Greatest width of pronotum, 5.^ 



Length of tegmen, 11 



Width of tegmen, 6 



Length of caudal femur, 17 



The type is the only specimen known to the author. 



T.ENIOPODA St&l. 

 Tseniopoda oenturio (Drury). 



1773. Gryll[iis] {Loc[iista]) Centurio Drury, Illust. Nat. Hist. Exot. Ins., p. 

 78, PI. XLI, fig. 3 and Index. ["Bay of Honduras in America."] 



San Carlos, Costa Rica. (Schild and Burgdorf.) [U. S. N. M.] 

 Two males, one female. 



This species has never before been recorded south of Hondiu-as. 

 One male has the general color decidedly purplish-black, the usual 

 blotches on the tegmina absent and the veins pale against the solid 

 dark ground. 

 Taeniopoda varipennis n. sp. 



Types : (J" ; Central America. [Hebard collection.] 9 ; San Jose, 

 Costa Rica. (Schild and Burgdorf.) [U. S. N. M., No. 8,174.] 



Allied to T. auricornis (Walker) and T. pulchella Bolivar. From the 

 former it differs in the slenderer form and more produced caudal pro- 

 cess of the pronotum, and the longer and narrower tegmina. From 



