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lengths of the rest of the tarsal segments. General color 

 black-brown, almost black, except the antennae beyond the 

 second segment, which is yellow with the extreme tip of the 

 segments very narrowly darkened ; a rounded slightly ele- 

 vated median dorsal ridge extending from the front margin 

 of the mesonotum to near the end of the abdomen is yellow- 

 ish brown and the legs are very slightly lighter than the rest 

 of the general color. 



Measurements. — Length: Total, 43 mm.; fore femora, 12 

 mm. ; middle femora, 10 mm. ; hind femora, 13 mm. ; meso- 

 notum, 6.25 mm. ; width : across metanotum, 4 mm. 



Described from a single $ , December 6, 1906. Iconni- 

 cofif. 



Type in collection of Iconnicofif. 



Family TETTIGONID^ 

 Subfamily GRYLLACRINiE 



Hyperbaenus virgo Brunner. 



Hyperbaenus virgo Brunner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 

 xxxviii, p. 368 (1888); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. ii, p. 

 148 (1906). 



One 9 , May, 1909. Schunke. 



Hyperbaenus juvenis Brunner. 



Hyperbaenus juvenis Brunner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 vol. xxxviii, p. 368 (1888); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. ii, p. 



148 (1906). 



One 2 , September, 1908. Schunke. 



This is the variety mentioned by Griffini in his mono- 

 graphic study of this genus, Redia, vol. vii, p. 187-203 

 (1911). 



Hyperbaenus brevipennis, new species. (PI. I, fig. 8.) 



This species is referred to this genus by the absence of 



subgenital styles and other generic characteristics pertaining 



to Hyperbaenus and is clearly differentiated from all other 



members of the genus by the brevity of the organs of flight. 



Description { $ ). — Head of approximately the same 



