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narrow, extending beyond the tips of the cerci, mesially longi- 

 tudinally concave above and beneath, the tip deeply but roundly 

 incised and provided with a pair of somewhat apically ex- 

 panded styles over half as long as the plate itself. 



General color of head, body, and legs yellowish brown ex- 

 cept the posterior femora which are tinged with dull olive 

 green ; pronotum with a broad black dorsal stripe ; spines of 

 the femora black apically and basally, mesially yellowish ; 

 tegmina distinctly olivaceous except the anal area, which is 

 brownish. The tips of the mandibles and the top of the head 

 are also blackish. 



( 9 ) . Same as the male. Ovipositor long, moderately broad 

 and blackish in the apical third ; subgenital plate apically black- 

 ish and notched ; cerci cylindrical, curved inward in the apical 

 half and apically pointed. 



Measurements. — Length : pronotum, $ , 9 mm., 9 , 9.5 mm. ; 

 tegmina, $ , 48 mm.. 9 , -IS mm. ; wing, $ , 45 mm. ; anterior 

 femora, $ , 13 mm. ; 9 , 14 mm. ; posterior femora, 

 $ , 27 mm., 9 , 29 mm. ; anal styles, $ , 5.5 mm. ; ovipositor. 28 

 mm. Width : pronotum posteriorly, $ ,9 , 6 mm. ; tegmina 

 mesially, $, 12 mm., 9, 12.5 mm.; wings mesially, 

 $ , 36 mm. ; posterior femora, at widest part, $ ,9 , 6 mm. ; 

 ovipositor mesially, 4 mm. 



Described from eight $ $ and eight 9 9 . Type, S , Janu- 

 ary, 1909. Schunke. Allotype, 9 , same date. Paratypes a, b, 

 c, d, January, e, f, February, 1909, males, g, h, i, j, Februar>\ 

 k, August, 1, November, 1909, females. 



Type, allotype, and paratypes d, e, g, h, and k in the col- 

 lection of the U. S. National Museum ; paratypes a, b, c, f , i, j 

 and 1 in the collection of Iconnicoff. 



Cat. No. 21381, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



In the key given by Giglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Torino, vol. xiii, 

 No. ."Ml, p. 95-97 (1898), the above species runs out to festce. 

 That species, however, has the base of the antennae black while 

 in the species here described the antennae are yellowish brown. 



Cocconotus nigroantennatus Brunner. 



Coconnotus nigroantennatus Brunner, Monogr. Pseudoph., 

 p. 207 (1895) ; Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. ii, p. 335 (1906). 



