CRICKETS — CHOPARD 255 



fiuTOwed at base. Genitalia triangular in their general shape, with 

 four narrow apical processes (fig, 3,d). 



Anterior and median legs rather long and slender; femora somewhat 

 darkened at apex; tibiae vaguely annulated, the anterior ones present- 

 ing a small auditory foramen near the base of the internal face. 

 Posterior femora rather short, strongly dilated at base, without apical 

 filiform part, with darkened apex; before the brown part there is a 

 yellowish ring; internal and inferior faces mottled with brown. 

 Tibiae brown at base, presenting httle after the brown part a ring of 

 the same color; base of the spines spotted with brown; superior 

 margins rather strongly serrulated and armed with fom' spines; 

 superoexternal and inferoexternal apical spurs very short, the median 

 twice as long; inferointernal spur a Httle longer than the external; 

 superointernal longer than the median, a little more than half the 

 length of the metatarsus; the latter is long, brown at apex, armed 

 above with a few denticles, the apical spurs rather short. 



Elytra extending to the apex of abdomen, rather strongly widening 

 caudad, rufous brown, shining, with a rather feeble yellow, opaque, 

 band all round; internal margin feebly convex; internal angle and 

 apical margin strongly rounded; dorsal field somewhat corneous with 

 rather feeble veins; diagonal vein very short, divided, forming a very 

 long, triangular muTor; two chords, the internal of which extending 

 along the apical margin as far as the external angle; six long, parallel, 

 straight obHque veins; anal vein very faint; anal field especially 

 thickened; lateral field rather small, with three plain veins, the third 

 one emerging from base of the Sc. No wings. 



Length of body 11.5 mm.; pronotum 2.4 nmi.; width of pronotum 2.5 

 mm.; posterior femur 9 mm.; elytra 7.5 mm. 



Kemarks : This species differs from circumcincta in the more uniform 

 coloration and the wider elytra with quite dift'erent venation. 



Genus Miogryllodes Hebard, 1928 

 Miogryllodes sp. 



Specimens examined: Brazil: Near Pard (19 nymph), Merrill. 

 Certainly belonging to this genus, but specifically undeterminable. 



Genus Luzara Walker, 1869 



Lusara rufipennis Walker 



Luzara ruU-pennis "Walker, Catalogue of the . . . Dermaptera Saltatoria . . 

 in the British Museum, vol. 1, p. 103, 1869. 



Specimens examined: Bolivia: Tumupasa, December 1921 (19), 

 Mann. Per^: Chanchamayo, July 22, 1948 (Icf), Schunke; Eio 

 Ucuyali, Apr. 30, 1947 (IcT), Schunke. 



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