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tarsi, the ventral half of the caudal femora and the lateral and ventral faces«of 
the caudal tibiae and tarsi, blackish fuscous; ocelliform spots of the general 
color are placed in the fuscous areas on the cephalic and median femora and 
tibiae, and a sparse beading of the same color is present on the vcntro-external 
margin of the caudal femora; dorsal surface of the cephalic tibiae weaklj' 
hay’s russet, a faint indication of the same on the median tilnae; caudal tibiae 
with the dorsal surface clear buff-yellow. 
Length of body, 12.1 mm.; length of pronotum, 2.1; greatest (caudal) 
width of pronotum, 3.3; length of tegmen, 13.3; greatest width of dorsal 
field of tegmen, 3; length of caudal femur, 9.6. 
The type of this striking and interesting species in unique. 
Aphonomorphus novus new' species (Plate IV, figs. 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47.) 
A very distinct species, showing so many characteristic features 
that it is inadvisable to give a comparative diagnosis. Its main 
features are: its small size, slender form (in both sexes), its 
greatly expanded distal palpal joint, its distinctly longitudinal 
and relatively complete tegminal venation, which is also in high 
relief, its pauciramose tegminal mediastine vein, its narrow, 
yet elliptical, foramen on the cephalic face of the cephalic tibiae, 
its caudal tibiae with five spines on each dorsal margin and its 
caudal metatarsi with two teeth on each lateral margin. The 
structure of the subgenital plate of the male much suggests that 
of hapitheformis Bruner and cearensis, described above, but no 
really close relationship to these species exists. 
Type. — d ' ; Independencia, State of Parahyba, Brazil. (Stan- 
ford Brazilian Expedition; Mann and Heath.) [Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phila., Type no. 5335.] 
Size small: form slender, elongate, in general section subquadrate: surface 
of body adpressed pubescent, of tegmina very delicately pubescent, this 
microscopic. Head with its width no greater than the cephalic width of the 
pronotum, the eyes not projecting laterad of the general outline of the head: 
occiput, fastigium and dorsal section of the rostrum to the angle, which is 
interantennal, regularly and strong!}' declivent; rostrum nearly rectangulate 
in lateral outline, its least width less than one-half that of the proximal antennal 
joint, fossulate dorsad: ocelli large, placed in a strongly arcuate line; median 
one quite large, nearly circular, placed in the fossulation at the l)ase of the 
rostrum; lateral ones slightly smaller than the median one, elliptical, moder- 
ately separated from the median ocellus and well removed from the eye, the 
surface of the lateral ocelli concave: palpi of medium length; third and fourth 
joints simple, the fourth slightly shorter than the third; fifth joint securiform, 
the dorsal outline of the joint straight, the distal margin truncate, the ventral 
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