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As the ovipositor was mutilated in the female type, I have described 

 the appendages of the available female. 



Ventral length of the ovipositor two and one-half times that of the 

 disk of the pronotum, slightly falcate, greatest width immediately 

 distad of the middle and contained about four times in the length, 

 apex acute, both margins crenulate for about a third their length. 

 Subgenital plate small, apex broadly emarginate. 

 *Graininadera rostrata n. sp. 



Type: 9 ; Sapucay, Paraguay. February 10, 1905. (WilUam 

 Foster.) [Hebard Collection.] 



Allied to G. clara and alhida, differing from the former in the more 

 arcuate ovipositor, the less quadrate lateral lobes of the pronotum 



Fig. 10. — Grammadera rostrata n. sp. Lateral view of type. (X 2J.) 



and the slenderer limbs. From G. alhida it differs in the smaller eyes, 

 the more produced and subecjual fastigium, the more distinctly disto- 

 median insertion of the median vein and the less c|uadrate lateral lobes 

 of the pronotum. From G. hastata Brunner and pcllucida and rosea 

 Giglio-Tos it is separated by a number of characters, the chief of which 

 is the sulcate fastigium (not sulcate in hastata) and the emarginate 

 subgenital plate (entire or rotundate in pellucida and rosea). 



Size medium; form moderately elongate, distinctly compressed. 

 Head with the occiput, vertex and fastigium on much the same plane, 

 fastigium considerably produced, the margins slightly converging, the 

 apex blunt and extending distinctly beyond the facial fastigium, 

 reaching to the margin of the proximal antennal joint when that por- 



