500 



McNeill 



pronotum is obscurely tuberculate on the disk, with a distinct median 

 sulcus which is colored like the body but fades out on the front edge 

 of the prozone and on the posterior part of the metazone. The teg- 

 mina of the male are but slightly longer than those of the female; 

 in both they are much longer than the pronotum, and oblong in shape, 

 with the apex rounded. The femoral spines are usually 3-2-4 ; the 

 spines on the outer carinjE, upper side of the tibiae about three confined 

 to the distal half. The cerci are not exceeded by the stylets of the 

 subgenital plate. The ovipositor is very stout and moderately curved. 



This species is closely related to L. cooksoni but easily distinguished 

 by its peculiar coloration as well as by its size and several structural 

 characters. According to Mr. Snodgrass, it is confined to mangrove 

 swamps, where it is found under the bark of Avice?ztzia^ a tree which 

 always occurs with the mangrove. Specimens were numerous at 

 Tagus Cove and a single one was found in a mangrove swamp at 

 Elizabeth Bay. The species is sluggish in its habits, and its song was 

 not heard. 



Measurejnents. — Length of body, $ 40 mm., $ 43; pronotum, $ 

 6, 9 6; tegmina, $ 10-12, 9 10; posterior femora, $ 14, 9 19; 

 length of ovipositor, 16; width of ovipositor, 3. 



Albemarle, 12 males, 6 females. 



LIPAROSCELIS PALLIDUS sp. nov. 



A single specimen, rescued from a mocking-bird, is so different 

 from all the others that, although it is without a head or forelegs, or 



middle legs, I feel obliged to 

 make it the type of a new 

 species. The following is 

 a description : 



Description. — Yellowish- 

 white, body and limbs mot- 

 tled with purple, becoming 

 black on the pronotum ; ovi- 

 positor whitish on the basal, 

 black on the distal half. 

 Pronotum evenly and rather 

 strongly tuberculate, the two 

 transverse sulci distinct, the median sulcus apparent only at the prin- 

 cipal transverse sulcus; shoulders somewhat distinct on the metazone, 

 obsolete on the prozone ; posterior margin straight ; lateral lobes 



Fig. 41. 

 ovipositor. 



Liparoscelis pallidus, female, 

 (X3-) 



