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margin squarely truncate and much broader than the subgenital plate 

 and rest of the abdominal sternites; the lateral margins converging 

 strongly cephalad as shown in figure 157, r. 



Paratype. — One male, Mount Omei, Szechwan, 11,000 feet; August 

 19, 1934 (D. C. Graham; U.S.N. M.). Measurements in millimeters: 

 Body length 9.5; hindfemora 11.0; pronotum 4.0; tegmina with apex 

 missing. Paratype in the Tinkham collcH'tion. Closely similar to the 

 holotype in size, form, and coloration. 



XIPHIDIOPSIS SPATHULATA, new species 

 FlGUKE 157, ]l, % 



A small species, with spotted tegmina, dorsum of pronotum dark 

 brown, and occiput of head dark brown except for the pale-colored 

 fastigial cone and darkened tympana, these being features that are 

 quite distinctive. The male cerci are long, simple, and spathulate, 

 and the female ovipositor is short, more recurved than usual, with 

 triangular subgenital plate. Nearest relationships appear to be with 

 X. szechwanensis Tinkham. 



Holotype. — Male, Shin Kai Si, Mount Omei, Szechwan, altitude 

 4,400 feet, July 1929 (D. C. Graham). Measurements in millimeters: 

 Body length 7.3; length to tip cerci 9.0; pronotum 3.0; length to tip 

 of tegmina 17.0 ; tegmina 14.0 ; cercus 1.7 ; hindfemora 8.4. U.S.N.M. 

 No. 56297. 



Description. — Size rather small and form typical of genus. Head 

 much broader than deep ; eyes subcircular and subglobular ; fastigial 

 cone prominent. Pronotum with foremargin slightly convex; pos- 

 terior margin broiidly angularly rounded. Prozona slighth^ broader 

 than the metazona ; lateral lobes broader than deep. Tegmina and 

 wings extending considerably bej^ond the apices of the caudal femora. 

 Leg spination as follows: Forelegs with forefemora unarmed; fore- 

 tibiae with four pairs of large spines between the tympana and the 

 apical third. Middle legs with niesof emora unarmed ; mesotibiae with 

 four pairs of long spines and one small external apical spine. Caudal 

 femora unarmed; caudal tibiae with 31-33 external and 32 internal 

 dorsal teeth and 4-7 external and 3 internal apical ventral spines. 

 Genitalia with supraanal plate squarely truncate and entire; cerci 

 long, simple, heavy at base, with apical half slightly spathulate and 

 gently incurved, the inner surface of the apical half excavate. Sub- 

 genital plate ver}'^ small; posterior margin squarelj'^ truncate, with 

 widely spaced subm.arginal styli. 



Coloration. — Testaceous in the preserved specimen; foliage green 

 in the living specimen, with the dorsum of the pronotum possessing 

 a median band of dark brown extending onto the head as far as the 

 base of the fastigial cone; eyes dark brown. Fastigial cone green in 



