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posterodorsally and acute apically; shaft short, truncate apically. 

 Color of dorsum entirely castaneous except head which is black, face 

 and legs castaneous. 

 Holotype male, Volcan de Chiriqui, 8,000 ft. (Champion) (BM). 



50. Ge««5 TAPAJOSA Melichar 



Figures 222-227 

 Tapajosa Melichar, 1924a:241. Type-species: [Tettigonia]fulvopuTu:tata Signorct, 

 by original designation. 



Length 8.1-11.1 mm. 



Head not strongly produced, its median length at least two-thirds 

 interocular width and one-half or less its transocular width, ocelli 

 located slightly behind a line between anterior eye angles, each slightly 

 closer to adjacent eye angle than to median line, disc with a shallow 

 transverse fovea before ocelli, with or without pubescence (very fine 

 and sparse when present), without an M -shaped elevation bordering 

 posterior margin; face with clypeus convex, not flattened medially, 

 muscle impressions usually not very distinct; other head characters 

 as in P/iera. 



Thorax in lateral aspect with a complete dorsopleural carina which 

 is oblique and either rectilinear or very slightly sinuate; proepimeron 

 with lower portion depressed but with length less than in Phera; 

 posterior portion of scutellum transversely striate, other characters 

 as in Phera. Forewing coriaceous, with an apical membrane which is 

 not strongly delimited anteriorly and which includes all apical cells, 

 texture with or without sculpturing, claval veins separate throughout 

 their length, otherwise as in Phera. Hindwing as in Phera (exception: 

 T. doeringi (Berg)). Anterior tibiae not dilated apically. Hindlegs with 

 femoral setal formula 2:0:0; first tarsomere with length greater or 

 less than combined length of second and third tarsomeres. 



Male genitalia: Pygofer strongly produced and rounded apically, 

 with many dispersed microsetae and occasionally with a few inter- 

 spersed macrosetae, without processes. Plates fused basally, not ex- 

 tending as far posteriorly as apex of pygofer, each triangular and with 

 numerous dispersed microsetae. Style with length variable inter- 

 specifically with relation to apex of connective, with or without an 

 anteapical lobe, apex variable interspecifically. Connective Y- or 

 V-shaped, with or without a median keel. Aedeagus nearly always 

 symmetrical, with shaft long or short, with pair of processes arising 

 at base and branched in some species. Paraphyses absent. 



Female abdominal sternum VII with posterior margin nearly trans- 

 versely rectilinear and either with a small median concavity, or with 

 a deep concavity. 



