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and lower portion of pleura, anterior and middle legs, lower half of 

 hind femora, and venter flavous, Anleiin.e pallid on basal half 

 above, Mack beneath and infuscated on apical half above. Lunules 

 of hind femora ferruginous. Hind tibia oil-green, the spines black. 

 Wine,- clear transparent rose-color on base, becoming very delicate 

 e.irnlean on apical third, the veins concolorous. In one specimen 

 the wing is tinged with very delicate gray-blue and has a rather 

 laint patch of smoky brown on the radial field towards the 

 ior border, and the basal nervures are delicate lavender. Eyes 

 castaneous. 



Length of body, 9, 44 mm., of head 7.75 mm., of pronotum 6.75 

 mm., of tegmina, 37 mm., of hind femora, 16.5 mm., of hind tibiae, 

 [3 mm. 



Habitat. — Chapada, near Cuyaba, Matto Grosso, Brazil, July and 

 August (H. H. Smith). The type is deposited in the Carnegie 

 Museum. 



Genus Copiocera Burmeister. 



<cera BURMBISTER, Handb. Ent.. II, pp. 602, 611 (1838). 

 Glaphyracris Walker, Cat. Dermapt. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV, p. 653 (1870). 



The representatives of the genus Copiocera are all confined to 

 tropical America, where they occur in damp localities in and about 

 forests from Nicaragua to southern Brazil. Most of the species are 

 dark-colored, varied on the abdomen with red or orange markings. 



127. Copiocera austera Gerstaecker. 



Copiocera austera Gerst.ecker, Mitth. Ver. Neu-Vorpomm., XX, p. 36 (1889). 



Habitat. — The specimens at hand are labeled " Rio de Janeiro," 

 where they were taken in November by H. H. Smith. 



Genus Chrostheipus Brunner v. Wattenwyl. 



Chrostheipus Brunner v. Wattenwyl, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov., Ser. 2, XIII, p. 137 



(1893) footnote. 



This genus was undoubtedlx established especially for the reception 

 of Serville's Opsomala varipes which certainly does not belong in the 

 same genus along with 0. viridis, coccineipes, interior, etc. It should 

 not be included as a synonym of Opsomala. 



128. Chrostheipus varipes (Serville). 

 Opsomala varipes Serville, Ins. Orthopt., p. 584 (1839). 



Habitat. — A single female specimen of this insect is at hand from 

 Rio de Janeiro, where it was taken in December by II. II. Smith. 



