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one- fourth as long as the tegmina and about twice as long as 

 broad; the stridulatory vein is stout and does not project at all 

 beyond the inner margin, which is thickened and forms a notch 

 just above the termination of the above vein. The entire sur- 

 face of the insect, including the elytra, is rugose, the femora 

 and pronotum, especially the latter above, also tuberculate. 



General color brown with darker mottlings ; sides of pro- 

 notum, especially along the sites of the lateral carinse, blackish 

 and the femora with three illy defined but broad and distinct 

 blackish bands ; the tip of the abdomen, including the last 

 dorsal segment, the supraanal and subgenital plates, and the 

 cerci clear yellowish, the dorsal sulcation of the supraanal plate 

 black and the last dorsal segment of the abdomen with a round 

 black dot on each side of the upper surface; the antennae are 

 irregularly banded with light yellowish and dark brownish. 



Measurements. — Length : pronotum, 5 mm. ; anterior femora, 

 4 mm.; posterior femora, 8 mm.; tegmina, 10 mm.; wing, 9 

 mm. Width: pronotum, posteriorly, 3.25 mm.; tegmina, at 

 middle, 4 mm. ; wing, at middle, 8 mm. ; posterior femora, at 

 widest point, 3.5 mm. 



Described from one S , type, August, 1908. Schunke. 



Type in the collection of the U. S. National Museum. 



Cat. No. 21327, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Orpacophora coronata Linnaeus. 



Grylhis Tettigoiiia coronatiis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 

 p. 430 (1758) ; Orpacophora coronata Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. 

 ii, p. 313 (1906). 



One $ , July, 1908. Schunke. 



Diacanthodis granosa Brvmner. 



Diacanthodis granosa Brunner, Monogr. Pseudoph., p. 117 

 (1895); Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. ii, p. 315 (1906). 



Two 9 $ . November, 1908. Schunke. 



These female specimens agree very well with the description 

 of the male type. There are eight dorsal spines on the posterior 

 femora instead of seven as in the male as described by Brunner. 

 The measurements of the female are as follows : 



Length : pronotum, 5 mm. ; anterior femora, 7 mm. ; poste- 

 rior femora. 14.5 mm.; tegmina, 28 mm.; ovipositor, 14 mm. 



