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ORTHOPTEROUS GROUP INSARAE 



Measurements (in millimeters) of individuals treated above 



Co^or Azotes. — The general color of the two specimens, here 

 treated fully, is raw umber darkening to mummy brown on face, 

 sides of head, lateral lobes of pronotum, proximal portion of mar- 

 ginal field of tegmina and on all of the femora; the cephalic and 

 median femora, however, are distinctly once-banded with the 

 lighter shade. The tegmina are irregularly and finely marked 

 with darker brown, which gives the insects a more or less speckled 

 and streaked appearance. The second and third dorsal abdominal 

 segments are marked dorsad with a large and striking trapeziform 

 spot of velvety-appearing bistre, this spot is sometimes margined 

 laterad with a very fine yellowish line. One specimen before us 

 from San Rafael (Jicaltepec), Vera Cruz, Mexico is noticeably 

 suffused with greenish and in life was probably quite green in color. 



Distribution. — The species is known to occur in Mexico, north as 

 far as Jicaltepec, Vera Cruz, southward to Oaxaca, and Tonala, in 

 Chiapas, and eastward to Teapa in Tabasco and La Zacualpa in 

 Chiapas; south of this it has been taken at Las Mercedes, Olas de 

 Moka and Torola in Guatemala and San Jose in Costa Rica, this 

 latter the southernmost record. 



Biological Azotes.— Professor P. Biolley gives us the following 

 note on the habits of the insect about San Jose, Costa Rica. "It 

 jumps about in the grass with much agility, the insect reaches 

 maturity in August or September." 



Sijnonymij.—lw 1869, Walker described the genus Insara and 

 the species strigulata; this species is a synonym of Saussure's 

 tolteca as Kirby stated in his Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera 



20 These two nieasurcmeiits are taken from another female of the same 

 size as that sent by Saussure, as in the latter specimen the tegmina are much 

 damaged. 



