INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 36 



apically rounded by the curving upward of the anal margin 

 more than the backward curving of the anterior margin ; radial 

 veins well separated basally. Supraanal plate narrowly and 

 shallowly sulcata above, a little longer than broad, narrow- 

 ing apically, the tip very broadly rounded ; subgenital plate very 

 narrow and elongate, sulcate above and below and apically with 

 a deep V-shaped incision, each flange about one and one-half 

 times as long as broad, apically truncate and furnished with a 

 bluntly pointed style about as long as the flange itself but some- 

 what narrower ; cerci short, stout, and cylindrical, very gently 

 curved inward and apically with a small swelling on the inner 

 side and with a short, sharp black tooth. 



General color yellowish brown ; femoral spines black to near 

 the tip where there is a light area, the very tip itself blackish ; 

 hind femora black beneath in the basal half and on the lower 

 half of the inner face basally ; last segment of the abdomen 

 infuscated; face concolorous. 



( $ ). Very similar to the male except the cerci are longer, 

 simple, and pointed, and the subgenital plate elongate-triangular 

 and apically entire. Ovipositor stout and noticeably longer 

 than the pronotum, straight above, apically sharply pointed bv 

 the curving upward of the ventral margin in the apical third ; 

 upper margin finely serrate in the apical half ; color about as in 

 the opposite sex, the black of the apex of the abdomen more 

 intensified ; ovipositor black in the apical half, continued as a 

 narrow ventral streak to the base and an elongate spot of the 

 same color on the dorsal surface in the basal half. 



Measurements. — Length : pronotum, $ , 7 mm., $ , 7.5 mm. ; 

 tegmina, $ , 32 mm. , $ , 35 mm. ; wings, $ , 30 mm., $ , 32 

 mm. ; anterior femora, 5,9, 10 mm. ; posterior femora, 



S , 9 , 19 mm. ; subgenital plate, including styles, 5,10 mm. ; 

 ovipositor, 16 mm. Width: pronotum posteriorly, 5,9,5 

 mm. ; tegmina mesially, $ , 9 mm., 9 , 9.5 mm. ; wings, 



5,9, about 25 mm. ; ovipositor mesially, 2.75 mm. 



Described from one 5 and two 9 9 . Type, 5 , October 9, 

 1908. Schunke. Allotype, 9 , November 29, 1900. Iconni- 

 cofif. Paratype, 9 , November, 1906. Iconnicoff. 



