CRICKETS — CHOPARD 273 



as wide; chords long, parallel, nearly straight; diagonal vein rather 

 short, convex, very close to the oblique vein towards the apex. 



Length of body 7.0 mm.; length with wings 12.5 mm.; posterior 

 femur 5.5 mm.; elytra 6.0 mm. 



This species is close to A. nitida Chopard, from French Guiana; it 

 is larger, without any trace of the whitish spot which exists towards 

 the middle of the elytra, the elytral venation is a little more regular. 

 It also differs from annulipes Hebard by the absence of a second 

 bro\vn ring on the posterior femora and by the wings, which are 

 whitish at top. 



Anaxipha schunkei, new species 



FiGUBE 4,/ 



Holotype: Male; Fundo Sinchono, about 40 miles southwest of 

 Pucallpa, Rio UcuyaH, Peril, Aug. 27, 1947, Schunke (USNM 62075). 



Male: Dark testaceous with a few feeble light brown spots on the 

 legs and elytra. Head rufous, a little flattened above; frontal rostrum 

 as wide as the 1st joint of antemiae, a little rounded at top. Face as 

 long as wide, testaceous, smooth. Eyes slightly lengthened antero- 

 posteriorly; ocelli very small, the anterior one placed a little before 

 the extremity of the rostrum. Antennae yellow with small light 

 bro^vn rings. Palpi yellowish; 5th joint of the maxillary palpi large, 

 triangular, somewhat darkened at apex, which is straightly truncated. 



Pronotum rufous, slightly narrowing in front; disk feebly convex, 

 furrowed in the middle ; lateral lobes concolorous, with convex inferior 

 margin, much-rounded anterior angle. Abdomen testaceous. Geni- 

 talia somewhat asymetric, forming two very long horns. 



Legs rather long, yellowish covered with a fine brown pubescence. 

 Anterior and median femora very narrowly darkened at apex and 

 adorned a little before with a small brown ring; anterior tibiae very 

 feebly dilated at base, presenting on the external face a rather small 

 oval tympanum; superior face adorned with a small brown spot at 

 base and another a little larger about the anterior third; apex armed 

 with two inferior spurs; apex of the metatarsus and second joint of 

 the tarsus brown. Median legs similar to the anterior ones. Pos- 

 terior femora moderately swollen, adorned with three feebly marked 

 brown bands, one a little before the middle, the second about the 

 apical fourth, the third at apex. Posterior tibiae and extremity of 

 the legs in very bad state. 



Elytra large, extending a little beyond the abdominal extremity; 

 their color is amber yellow, adorned with brownish spots in the anterior 

 angle of the mirror, on the chords, near the posterior margin, and 

 towards the middle of the cubital vein; mirror very large, nearly as 

 long as wide; diagonal vein short, sinuated. No wings. 



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