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length of the femur, armed on the external margin with thirteen 



spines and twelve on the internal. Median and caudal limbs rather 



slender. 



General color pale apple green becoming weak parrot green on the ab- 

 domen. Eyes walnut brown ; antennse cinnamon ; ocelli 

 glassy crimson, their peduncles rather yellowish. Cep- 

 halic femora with the larger spines on their internal 

 margins marked proximad with blackish, the proximal 

 section of the femora also with two circular blackish 

 spots on the ventral portion of the internal face ; 

 tibiae washed with yellowish. Tegmina with the 

 semi-opaque costal area weak apple green, remainder 



F" o^ph f hyaline but the nerves of the same greenish. Wings 



brevis n. sp. with the costal margin washed with greenish, the 



Dorsal view of remainder hyaline, the nerves greenish as in the 

 male prone- ^ ' ^ 



turn. (X 3.) tegmina. 



Measurements. 



Length of body, 41 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 10.5 



Greatest width of pronotum, 3.5 



Length of tegmen, 35 



Greatest width of tegmen, 11.2 



Length of cephalic femur, 9 



Length of caudal femur, 11.2 



Two females have also been examined, one taken in February, the 

 other in March, 1905. These individuals differ in no essential par- 

 ticulars from the type. 



PARAMUSONIA Rehn. 



1894. Musonia Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., I, p. 64. 



(Not of Stal, 1877.) 

 1904. Paramusonia Rehn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, p. 567. 



Type. — Thespis cuhensis Saussure. 



Paramusonia livida Serville. 



1839. Thespis livida Serville, Orthopt^res, p. 172. [Brazil.] 



Six 6^. April and May, 1902; February and March, 1905. 



These specimens are very slightly larger than the measurements 

 given by Serville: "Long 1 pouce au moins, non compris la lame 

 abdominale .... prothorax long de trois lignes au moias." Several 

 of the individuals seen about equal the length of body of this species 



