1905. 



NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



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Conocephalus diversus n. sp. 



Type: 9 ; Guatel, Costa Rica. August, 1902. (C. F. Underwood.) 

 [A. N. S. Phila.] 



Allied to C. laticeps Redtenbacher, but differing in the very much 

 shorter tegmina and ovipositor, the shorter caudal femora and the 

 reduction of the number of femoral spines. 



Size rather small; form aborted, thick-set, robust, limbs rather short; 



Fig. 14. Conocephalus diversus n. sp. Lateral view of type. (X 2.) 



surface rugose. Head with the face distinctly but not strongly 

 flattened; occiput transversely arched, slightly elevated to very broad 

 fastigium, which is as broad as the exposed portion of the head, with 

 the cephalic margin regularly arcuate, ventral point 

 placed against the facial fastigium; eyes subtrigonal 

 in basal outline, hardly prominent; antennae nearly 

 reaching to the tip of the ovipositor. Pronotum moder- 

 ately flattened dorsad, cephalic and caudal margins 

 arcuate, lateral angles only moderately distinct caudad, 

 rounded cephalad, a subobsolete, broken median carina 

 present on the caudal section of the dorsum; lateral 

 lobes of the pronotum longer than deep, the caudal 

 sinus very slight, ventro-cephalic and ventro-caudal 

 angles obtuse, the former much broader than the latter. 

 Tegmina equal to the head and pronotum in length, 

 greatest breadth much more than half the length ; cos- 

 tal and sutural margins broadly arcuate; apex rounded 

 dorsad, obliquely truncate ventrad; dorsal field of the 

 tegmen distinctly broader than the lateral; humeral, 

 discoidal and anal veins apparent, others fused in an 

 irregular network of nervures. Wings minute, not 

 functional, hidden under the tegmina. Abdomen some- 

 what compressed, slightly carinate dorsad; ovipositor 

 slightly shorter than the head and pronotum together, rather thick, 



Fig. 15. Con- 

 ocephalus diver- 

 sus n. sp. Dor- 

 sal \'iew of 

 head, prono- 

 tum and teg- 

 mina. (X 3.) 



