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BRAZILIAN ORTHOPTERA 
When compared with H. minor the new species is found to differ 
in mmieroiis features other than the cereal form, while from H. 
ahrupla, described beyond, hranneri can be separated by the 
characters given under that species. 
Type. — cf; Independencia, State of Parahyba, Brazil. (Stan- 
ford Expedition; IMann and Heath.) [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 
Type no. 5294.] 
Size medium: form considerably elongate. Head with the dorsal length 
about one-half that of the dorsum of the pronotum: occiput regularly and 
rather strongly declivent to the apex of the fastigium ; the latter narrow, acu- 
minate, subcompressed, sub-sulcate dorsad, apex almost touching the fastigium 
of the face, the latter being acute-angulate in form: eyes prominent, semi- 
globose in form when seen from the dorsum, very short-ovate in basal outline, 
their depth slightly more than one-half that of the infra-ocular portion of the 
genae: antennae elongate, fragile, proximal joint but little smaller than the 
eye. Pronotum moderately elongate, weaklj' sellate, the disk of the pronotum 
with its greatest caudal width equal to two-thirds of the greatest length; cepha- 
lic margin of disk moderately arcuato-emarginate, caudal margin of disk equally 
arcuate; lateral angles of disk distinct, sharp, weakly and regularly expanding 
caudad; transverse impression on disk in general form rectangulate : lateral 
lobes of pronotum with greatest depth contained one and two-thirds times in 
the length of the same; cephalic margin straight, ventro-cephalic angle ob- 
tuse-subrectangulate, ventral margin straight and weakly oblique on cephalic 
two-thirds, then strongly full arcuate over the caudal margin to the rectangu- 
late humeral sinus. Tegmina surpassing the tips of the caudal femora, but 
falling considerably short of the wing tips, in form elongate-lanceolate, the 
apex narrowly rounded, the form very faintly tapering from the proximal fourth 
to the distal sixth: mediastine vein incomplete or lacking; discoidal vein 
with three regular rami to the sutural margin, these connected in the fashion 
usual in the genus: stridulating field elongate, relatively narrow, for venation 
see figure. Wing with distal portion subcoriaceous like the tegmina, acu- 
minate, surpassing the tegmina by a distance equal to twice the length of the 
pronotal disk. Alidominal segments weakly carinate dorsad, the penultimate 
dorsal segment produced mesad into a rectangulate process which overhangs 
the supra-anal plate, the lateral margins of this process faintly concave and the 
median line weakly carinate, the form in section subtectate: disto-dorsal 
abdominal segment narrow, strongly transverse: supra-anal plate slightly 
acute trigonal, the margins thickened in a fashion increa.sing to the immediate 
apex, margins hirsute: cerci with the shaft moderately tapering, gently arcu- 
ate mesad and dorsad, hirsute; the apex developed on the internal face, which 
bears a moderately inflated process similar to that found mesad in the same 
region in brasiliensis and related species, this process bearing a sharp point, 
ending in a short decurved tooth, directed cephalad, while the distal extremity 
of the whole cercus is bluntly subtruncate with three low, sub-tuberculate 
bosses, the dorsal surface of the cereal process with usual sculpture of the species 
