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ORTHOPTEROfrs GROUP INSARAE 



It appears certain, however, that the tegmina and wings of phlhisica are 

 uniformly longer, and the lateral lobes of the pronotum shallower, than in 

 gracillirna. The measurements given for gracillima show that there is 

 a certain amount of variation in that species, though the specimens agree in 

 general proportions and all important characters. 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



cf Orizaba, Mexico. . . . 

 c^ San Rafael, Mexico . 



d^ Costa Rica 



9 Orizaba, Mexico. . . . 



Color Notes.^'^ — General color of insect bistre, shading to raw 

 umber on the limbs. The cephalic femora are narrowly twice- 

 banded with Vandyke brown, ^- while the tegmina are irregularly 

 and finely marked with a darker brown than the ground color, 

 which gives the insect a more or less speckled and streaked appear- 

 ance. The dorsal abdominal segments are marked with darker 

 brown similarly as described in this paper under phthisica. 



Distribution. — The present species is found from Chiriqui, 

 Panama, northward through Costa Rica and Guatemala to Mexico, 

 where it has been taken in the southern states of Tabasco and Vera 

 Cruz, and northward in Durango or Sinaloa. 



Specimens Examined:^^ 4; 3 males, 1 female. 

 Costa Rica, Id', [Hebard Collection]. 

 San Rafael, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Id, [Hebard Collection]. 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico. December 1887, (L. Bruner), Icf , 1 9 , [Hebard 

 Collection]. 



Insara elegans (Scudder) (Figs. 11, 17 and 27.) 



1900. Hormilia elegans Scudder, Proc. Davenp. Acad. Sci., VIII, p. 96, 

 pi. Ill, fig. 1. [Las Cruces, New Mexico; Mesilla, New Mexico.] 



• " All of the specimens before us show that they have become somewhat 

 discolored in drying, and their markings, although now faded and irregular 

 in most cases, indicate that, when fresh, all of the specimens were probably 

 distinctly marked as described. 



^^ The specimen from Costa Rica has the median femora similarly twice- 

 banded. 



" These specimens arc in the Hebard Collection. 



