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dd. Body of insect slenderer, the vortex narrower, but little depre 

 median carina of the pronotum low; hind tibiae and I 

 scarlet; last ventral segment strongly produced, acuminate, 

 the apex with a strong V-shaped emargirfation. 



mimicula Rehn. 



cc. Pronotum with more or less decided longitudinal flavour lines. Hind 



tibiae greenish-yellow, the t.usi scarlet similis Bruner. 



85. Zoniopoda tarsata (Serville). 



Acridium tarsatum Serville, Ann. Sci. Nat., XXXI, p. 283 (1831). 

 Acrydium tarsatum Gray, Griffith, Anim. Kingd., XV, p. 781 (1832). 

 Zoniopoda tarsata Stal, Recens. Orthopt., I, p. 51 (1873). 

 Gryllus servillei Guerin, Icon. R. Anim., Ins., pi. 54, fig. 9 (1829). 



Habitat. — Rio de Janeiro, in November (H. H. Smith). 

 Ac cording to Rehn a number of the references to the present, species 

 should be referred to the next. 



86. Zoniopoda cruentata (Blanchard). 



Acridium cruentatum Blanchard, D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Mer., VI, no. 2, p. 216, 



pi. 27, fig. 5 (1837-1843). 

 Zoniopoda cruentata Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., LIX, p. 175 (1907). 

 Zoniopoda tarsata Bruner {nee Serv.), Locusts of Argentina, pp. 53, 61 (1900); 



ib., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, p. 652 (1906). 



Habitat. — Said to be Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, etc. Not 

 contained in the present collection. (See Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad., 1 907, p. 175.) 



87. Zoniopoda similis Bruner. 

 Zoniopoda sitnilis Bruner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXX, p. 652 (1906). 



Habitat. — Chapada, Brazil, during November, two males (H. H. 

 Smith). 



88. Zoniopoda iheringi Pictet et Saussure. 



Zoniopoda iheringi Pictkt et Saussure, Mitth. Schweitz. Ent. Gcs., VII, p. 356 

 (1887). 

 Habitat. — Chapada, Brazil, in April (H. H. Smith). 



narrowly but fairly deeply emarsinate at apex, about one-half longer than wide. 

 The pronotum is quite strongly rugoso-punctulate, has the transverse sulci deeply 

 impressed and the hind edge of the disk very faintly more than a right-angle. Hind 

 tibiae robust, eleven-spined externally, pale greenish-yellow, not at all tinged with 

 pink or red. Entire insect quite strongly hirsute. 



Length of body, c? , 27.5 mm., of pronotum, 6.1 mm., of tegmina, 23 mm., of 

 hind femora, 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Sao Paulo, Brazil (A. Hempel). The type is in the writer's collection. 



