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dot and an indistinct transverse line of cinnamon-buff to the 

 clypeus, which is of the paler coloration. Pronotum with lateral 

 margins transparent with a brownish tinge; disk saccardo's umber 

 with a few points of darker brown and numerous dots and lines 

 of buffy, the caudal margin often narrowly suffused with bister. 

 The pattern suggests that of punctulata but, as the darker color- 

 ing is more diffuse, the paler portions appear as dots and dashes 

 rather than as the ground color. Tegmina transparent clear 

 tawny olive with small elongate dark brown maculations, one 

 at base of the anal vein, the other slightly distad on the dis- 

 coidal vein.'*" Wings hyaline, moderately iridescent; veins almost 

 colorless. Abdomen cinnamon buff" with a few lateral indistinct 

 maculations of darker brown. Limbs pale cinnamon buff, the 

 tibiae at the bases of the spines frequently flecked with darker 

 brown. 



Specimens Examined: 22; 11 males, 9 females, 2 immature individuals. 



Montego Bay, St. James Parish, Jamaica, III, 19, 1911, (J. A. Grossbeck; 

 beating shrubbery), 1 9 , [Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.]; X, 29 to XI, 3, 1913, (Hebard; 

 moderately numerous and the most frequent Orthopteron encountered in 

 bromeliads growing on the hmbs of trees), 11 cf , 8 9,2 juv., [Hebard Cln. and 

 A. N. S. P.]. 



Cariblatta fossicauda'^ new species (PI. XI, figs. 13 to 17, PI. XII, figs. 17 



and 18.) 



In general appearance the present insect is almost identical 

 with C. aediculata and further closely resembles C. imitans. Like 

 in each of those species, however, the male genitalia are entirely 

 different from those of any other species of the genus. When 

 compared with aediculata, the present species is seen to be slightly 

 smaller and less robust; the maxillary palpi are not as elongate; 

 the tegmina and wings are shorter and the latter proportionately 

 decidedly wider, not as clearly hyaline, with veins and veinlets 

 more decided. In the female, the supra-anal jalate shows no 

 distinct mesal notch and the subgenital plate is less produced, 

 with distal portion not roundly truncate. 



Though in appearance one of the most inconspicuous species of 

 the genus, the male subgenital plate shows the greatest special- 

 ization found in Cariblatta. 



^° These markings, though varying somewhat in intensity, are present in 

 every specimen before us and represent a feature pecuhar to the present species. 

 ^1 In allusion to the singular channels (fossa) of the male subgenital plate. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



