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line reaching from the lower inner margin of eyes to the outer base of 

 the clypeus. Antennae unicolorous, ferruginous. Pronotum bluntly 

 rugulose, marmorate with grayish fuscous. Tegmina with the veins 

 and cross-veins narrowly bordered with fuscous, giving to these wings 

 a netted appearance; posterior margin rather widely alternately pale 

 and brown maculate. Wings uniformly pale fuscous, or strongly 

 enfumed. Ninth and tenth abdominal segments above glossy black. 

 Legs all profusely varied with fuscous bands and lines. Anterior and 

 middle femora below four-spined, posterior pair six- or seven-spined. 

 Front tibiae flattened above, a little swollen below the foramina and 

 without apical spines; intermediate tibiae a little compressed and 

 dilated basally, two-spined above. 



Length of body, 9 , 35 mm., of pronotum, 8 mm., of tegmina, 

 38 mm., width of tegmina, 9 mm., length of hind femora, 23 mm., 

 of ovipositor, 19 mm. 



, Habitat. — -The only specimen at hand, a female and the type, 

 comes from Chapada, Brazil, where it was taken during the month 

 of August by H. H. Smith. It is to be found in the insect collections 

 of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Liparoscelis Stal. 



Liparoscelis Stal, Obs. Orth. CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., XXX, (4) p. 47 (1873); 

 Brunner, Mon. Pseudophyll., pp. 18, 174 (1895). 



A female specimen coming from Bom Fim, Bahia, Brazil, has been 

 determined as belonging to this genus. It does not, however, agree 

 with the described species. 



93. Liparoscelis brasiliensis 3p. nov. 



Moderately robust, general color fusco-olivaceous, profusely varie- 

 gated with black on the head, pronotum, tegmina, and legs. Falling 

 in the same section with nigrispinis Stal, but differing from it in a 

 number of respects. 



Front somewhat depressed, but convex, comparatively smooth, 

 with few punctures and transverse aciculations. Pronotum somewhat 

 flattened above, rather densely and coarsely granulose. Tegmina 

 abbreviated, the ulnar margins overlapping, the apex rounded, reach- 

 ing the hind border of the second abdominal segment. Anterior and 

 median femora moderately robust, the former below on the anterior 

 border three- to four-spined, the latter three-spined ; hind femora 



