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of forceps and its narrow distal margin transverse, with disto-lateral angles 
produced in acute-angulate, but rounded, minute projections. 
cf 
Measurements (in millimeters) 
LeriRth of Length of Width of 
body pronotum pronotum 
Length of 
tegmen 
Length of 
forceps 
Orizaba. T ype. 
6.5 
1.15 
1.2 
1.9 
2.6 
Minatitlan. Paratype. 
o 
6 
1.15 
1.2 
2 
3 
V 
Orizaba. Allotype. 
8 
1.2 
1.3 
2.1 
2.1 
Orizaba. Paratypes. 
6-8 
1.2-1. 3 
1.2-1.35 
1.4-1. 9 
1. 7-2.1 
Chalchicomula. Paratype. 8 
1.2 
1.3 
2.3 
2.2 
Coloration. Male. (Type.) Head blackish chestnut brown; antennae 
prouts brown, one or two of the distal joints pale (in series). Pronotum, teg- 
mina and wings ciimamon brown. Abdomen chestnut, suffused proximo- 
laterad vdth blackish chestnut brown. Forceps chestnut. Limbs dresden 
brown above, paler below. The male paratype and the females before us are 
more unicolorous, chestnut in general coloration with proximo-lateral abdom- 
inal suffusion obsolete. A marked recession and intensification is shown by the 
series, the small wingless female from Orizaba being the darkest of all. 
Specimens Examined'. 8; 2 males, 5 females, 1 immature example. 
Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico, I, 9 to 16, 1892, (H. Osborn), 19*® paratype, 
[U. S. N. M.]; II, 20, 1892, (L. Bruner), 1 cf , 3 9 , type, allotype and paratypes, 
1 juv. 
Minatitlan, Vera Cruz, Mex., II, 1892, (L. Bruner), 1 cf, paratype. 
Chalchicomula, Puebla, Mexico, (L. Bruner), 1 9 , paratype. 
SPARATTINAE 
Sparatta w-signata Burr (Plate XXVIII, figure 9.) 
1904. Sparatta w-signata Burr, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1904, p. 302. [Mex- 
ico.] 
Motzorongo, Vera Cruz, Mexico, II, 1892, (L. Bruner), 2 cf , 
6 9. 
This series shows little structural or color variation. The 
tegmina and wings are black with a metallic bluish luster, this 
distinctly less vivid than in S. biolleyi or S. pulchra. The disto- 
dorsal abdominal segment, in both sexes, shows the impressed 
W, with bases not reaching the caudal margin of the segment 
and broadly rounded. 
The male pygidium is perpendicular, with surface convex, its 
length equalling its distal width, the distal margin transverse, 
cingulate, terminating on each side in a minute, rounded knob. 
The male forceps show the proximal triquetrous portion to have 
Recorded by Rehn in 1903 as Labia guttata, and by Burr in 1910, with a 
question, as Labia unidentata. 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XUII. 
