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BRAZILIAN ORTHOPTERA 
In addition to the type and allotype we have before us six 
paratypes from the following localities and sources: 
Independencia, State of Paralnd^a, Brazil; (W. ]\I. Mann); 
one male. 
Baturite Mountains, State of Ceara, Brazil; (W. M. Mann); 
three males, one female. 
Bonito, State of Pernambuco, Brazil; (A. Koebele); one male; 
[U. S. N. M.]. 
AVe have also examined two immature females from the Batu- 
rite Mountains. The only feature in the series which seems 
worthy of comment is the length of the ovipositor in the two 
females. The Baturite Mountains female has this considerably 
greater than in the allotype (6.5 instead of 5.7 mm.) and the apex 
is faintly more arcuate. 
We take great pleasure in dedicating this species to Dr. J. C. 
Branner, the distinguished geologist, who led the expedition 
which secured the present material. 
Hyperophora abrupta new species (Plate III, figs. 3 and 3a.) 
This interesting species has much in common with H. hranneri, 
having a similar general form and the same type of abbreviate 
male cerci, but the latter instead of having their expansion 
inflated, as in hranneri, have it of a more usual (for the genus) 
form with the regular sculpture, the dorsal abdominal segments 
are more carinate niesad, the distal carinate segment less pro- 
duced and the apices of the tegmina more acute. 
Type. — (T ; Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. 
(Stanford Expedition; W. M. Mann.) [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
Type no. 5296.] 
Size medium : form elongate. Head with its dorsal length slightly more than 
one-half the dorsal length of the pronotal disk; occiput regularly declivent; 
fastigium quite acuminate, subcompressed, faintly elevated and weakly sulcate 
dorsad, apex very narrowly separated from the fastigium of the face, the latter 
acute-angulate: eyes prominent when seen from the dorsum, subcircular in 
basal outline, their depth very slightly more than one-half that of the infra- 
ocular portion of the genae: antenirae as usual in the genus, proximal joint 
relatively shorter and broader than in hranneri. Pronotum shorter than in 
hranneri, equally sellate, the disk of the pronotum with its greatest caudal 
width equal to three-fourths of the greatest length; margins of disk and lateral 
angles as in hranneri; depression on disk as in hranneri: lateral lobes of pro- 
notum with the greatest depth of the same contained one and one-half times in 
