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tennae moderately long, the basal segment large. Pronotum divergent 

 posteriorly, somewhat wider than long, the disc irregularly em- 

 browned, provided with a median depressed longitudinal line, the 

 front shallowly emarginate, the lateral lobes of moderate depth, the 

 anterior angle obliquely, the posterior angle evenly, rounded, hind 

 margin sinuose; the lateral lobes each prominently marked by two 

 moderately large fuscous spots, the posterior portion of the dorsum 

 furnished a little in advance of the margin by a row of equidistant 

 round fuscous dots from the center of which emanate stiff bristles. 

 Tegmina a little longer than the abdomen, provided with strong 

 longitudinal veins and regular cross-veins, the interspaces strongly 

 depressed, giving to these members a strongly corrugated appearance, 

 lateral field with two complete and one incomplete vein, the upper 

 interspace alone provided with cross-veins. Wings slightly infuscated, 

 their cross-veins pallid, lengthily caudate. Legs long and slender, 

 the anterior tibiae fusiform, both sides provided with moderately 

 large elliptical auditory openings, the apex of all the femora, the 

 tibiae, and tarsi marked with some fuscous patches; hind femora 

 slender, the carinae conspersed with fuscous, tip of the tibiae, the second 

 segment entirely, and the apex of the outer, fuscous. Ovipositor 

 fairly robust, well-curved and with its apex coarsely serrated both 

 above and below, the former for nearly twice the distance of the latter. 



Length to tip of wings, 9 . 13.75 mm., of body, 8 mm., of pronotum, 

 1.5 mm., width, 2.3 mm., length of tegmina, 7 mm., of hind femora, 

 7 mm., of ovipositor, 3.75 mm. 



Habitat. — The type, a female, comes from "Las Juntas (250 AL), 

 Dept. Sta. Cruz, Bolivia," where it was taken during the month of 

 December by J. Steinbach. A second female specimen is also at hand. 

 It was collected at \alla Bella, Bolivia, Oct. 7, 1909, by Haseman. 

 Both specimens are in the Carnegie Museum. 



81. Cyrtoxipha maxima sp. nov. 



Large and moderately robust, with a strongly hirsute pronotum 

 and sericeous legs. General color pale ferrugineo-flavous. 



Head a little wider than the front edge of the pronotum; eyes 

 fairly prominent; the vertex of moderate width, somewhat depressed, 

 provided with a few bristle-like hairs; the rostrum blunt, about as 

 broad as the greatest diameter of one of the basal antennal joints, 



