MORGAN HEBARD l')7 



Tegmina ample, lateral field narrow, apex mesad in dorsal field, outline ovate,. 

 shoulders moderately inflated and considerably raised, their outline convex. 

 Wings fully developed. Abdomen missing. Limbs difTering from those of 

 female only in features discussed above, the margins of the decidedly less 

 lamellate cephalic femora showing no undulation, except that caused by the 

 characteristic expansion beyond the weak cephalic flexure. 



Type, 9. — Length of body, 60.5; pronotum, 3.8; mesonotum, 11; metano- 

 tum, including median segment, 8.8; tegmen, 1.2; cephalic femur, 10; median 

 femur, 8.7; caudal femur, 11. .5 mm. ^^'idth of pronotum, 2.8; tegmen, .6; 

 cephalic femur, 1.7 mm. 



Allotype, cf. — Length of pronotum, 2.8; mesonotum, 8.3; metanotum, includ- 

 ing median segment, 10.3; tegmen, 6.7; wing, 37.8; cephalic femur. 11.3; 

 median femur, 8; caudal femur, 12.7 mm. Width of pronotum, l.S; dorsal 

 field of tegmen, 3.2; cephalic femur, .9 mm. 



Type, 9 ■ — General coloration clove brown, except face which is pale, sea- 

 foam green, and cephalic femora sufTused, but not solidly, with light lirownish 

 olive. Antennae olive brown, mottled with deep olive-buff, this strongest 

 distad and showing traces of pale green meso-distad. Fifth dorsal abdominal 

 segment showing traces of warm buff dorsad, sixth with dorsal surface warm 

 buff heavily maculate with clove brown. The two plates latero-distad of the 

 operculum each with an oval, slightly raised and conspicuous area of warm 

 buff with .surface smooth. Due to the contrasting coloration and verj' differ- 

 ent texture from the surrounding surface of the insect, these two areas are very 

 conspicuous. Median limbs mummy brown, marbled with prout's t)rown; 

 caudal limbs clove brown, marbled with mars brown. 



Allotype, cT. — General coloration of head, pronotum and mesonotum Ijuffj' 

 brown, suffused, but not solidly, with deep olive-butt', .\ntennae olive-brown, 

 mottled with deep olive-buff and showing a very faint trace of green meso- 

 distad, proximad several segments are so extensively buffy that in the.^e portions 

 the antennae appear weakly annulate. Tegmina with lateral field olive-ijuff, 

 with a few irregular marks of deep olive; dorsal field, including shoukiers, deep 

 olive mottled with .sage green. Wings with anterior field i)uffy brown, with 

 large irregular patches of olive-buff mesad in portions toward costal margin 

 which are exposed when at rest; posterior fiekl transparent, unicolorous, drab- 

 gray, showing a very feeble iridescence. Liml)s bulTy l)n>wn mottled with 

 buffy, this .suffu.sing the cephalic femora almost scjjidly in distal iialf to near 

 the apex. 



We would note that the female has the appearance of a brown 

 and feebly lichenose twig, while the male rather resembles mottled 

 and more strongly lichenose bark. In such forms the degree of 

 mottling is, in all prolxability, decidedly variable individually. 



The pair is unicjue. 



Metriotes diodes Westwood 



1859. Metriotes diodes Westwood, Cat. Orth. Ins. Brit. Mus., Phasmidae, p. 

 161, pi. XV, figs. 1, la and lb. [ 9 , Colombia.] 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLV. 



