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Described from Formosa in 1908, this species was first reported by 

 the author from Hupeli Province in 1935. In 1941 additional speci- 

 mens from the Heude Museum, Shanghai, were recorded from Shang- 

 hai and Ihing, Kiangsu Province. 



An additional female from Suifu, Szechwan, western China, alti- 

 tude 1,000 to 1,500 feet, collected by Dr. D. C. Graham, "10, 1930" 

 (probably meaning October 1930), represents the first record of this 

 widely distributed species from western China. 



The female of suzuhii is recognized by its pale green coloration in 

 life (pale brown when preserved), with a few fine dots scattered over 

 the central portion of the tegmina. The ovipositor is short, very 

 gently recurved, with three pairs of downward-projecting prongs at 

 the ventral base of the ovipositor. One pair belongs to the eighth 

 abdominal sternite; the middle pair represents the specialization of 

 the ninth abdominal sternite ; and the third and caudal pair pertains 

 to the external basal'portion of the ventral valvulae. This character 

 of the three pairs of prongs situated at the ventral base of the ovilDosi- 

 tor quickly separates the females of suziikii from the females of all 

 other Chinese species described and undescribed. The male of suzukii 

 is also quickly recognized by the bizarre form of the supraanal plate 

 and cerci of its genitalia. 



XIPHIDIOPSIS SZECHWANENSIS, new species 



FiGUKE 157, p-r 



A spotted-winged species distinguished from the spotted-winged 

 X. sumkii and other fully winged species by the fastigial cone 

 streaked with brown and the four brown stripes on the dorsum of 

 the occiput. The male supraanal plate is entire, squarely transverse, 

 and the cerci are simple, heavy with tufts of tawny hair near the 

 apex and the internal base, which characters will serve to distinguish 

 this species. The female subgenital plate is small, quadrate, with the 

 sternite cephalad narrow and broadly transverse, rhomboid in out- 

 line, with the lateral margins converging strongly cephalad, a charac- 

 ter not possessed by other females of the genus. Nearest relationship 

 appears to be with X. cydoJahia Karny, 1923, from Malaya. 



Holotype. — ^I^Iale, Suifu, Szechwan, altitude 1,000 feet, October 

 15-17, 1929 (D. C. Graham). Measurements in millimeters: Body 

 length to tip of cercus 9.7; length to tip of tegmina 22.0; pronotum 

 4.0 by 1.7; tegmina 1.5 by 2.0; hindfemora 11.2; cercus 1.5. U. S. 

 N. M. No. 56298. 



Description. — Size medium and form typical of the genus. Head 

 broader than deep ; e3^es large, ovalish, subglobular. Vertex about one 

 and one-half times the lateral diameter of an eye as seen from above. 

 Foremargin of the pronotum slightly convex; posterior margin 



