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longer than the pronotiim; legs moderately stout, the hind 

 femora strongly swollen in the basal half ; fore tibiae with con- 

 chate foramina and, like the middle ones, unarmed above but 

 both ventral margins armed with several spines ; hind tibiae 

 armed on both margins above and beneath, above with longer 

 spines for nearly the entire length and beneath with smaller 

 ones only in the apical half and in a clearly double row only 

 apically, above with a spine adjacent to the apical calcar only 

 on the inner margin; all femora armed beneath only, the 

 posterior ones on both margins with moderately long spines and 

 the fore and middle ones on the cephalic margin only with 

 very short stout ones; geniculations acute, that on the caudal 

 side of the middle ones and both sides of the posterior ones 

 more so, being briefly but decidedly spinose. Organs of flight 

 concealed beneath the pronotum. 



General color a dark reddish brown, the sides of the abdomen 

 blackish, but not strongly contrasted with the rest of the sur- 

 face ; fore and middle legs lighter with one or two blackish 

 bands on each femora and tibia ; lower side of abdomen reddish 

 and the lower part of the head is lighter colored than the dorsal 

 surface; antennae yellowish banded with black. 



Measurements. — Length : Pronotum, 7.5 mm. ; posterior 

 femora, 14 mm. ; ovipositor, 8 mm. Width : pronotum through 

 middle, by caliper measurement, 5 mm. ; ovipositor at thickest 

 part, 2 mm. 



Described from two 9 9 . Type, November 25, 1906. Icon- 

 nicofif. Paratype a, November Ifi, 1906. Iconnicoff. 



Type in collection of U. S. National Museum; paratype in 

 collection of Iconnicoff. 



Cat. No. 21325, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Dectinomima pallida, new species. (PI. II, figs. 13, 14, 

 and 15, c.) 



Allied to the preceding but quite distinctive in general 

 appearance. 



Description ( 9 , the S unknown). — The general form is dis- 

 tinctly more slender than that of the preceding species and the 

 geniculations of the femora appear less acute, those on the 



