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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



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the apex of the fastigium to the caudal margin of the pronotuni and is 

 also indicated on the distal portion of the sutural margin of the tegmina ; 

 pronotum regularly sprinkled with red-brown dots; eyes vandyke 

 brown; antennae greenish proximad, yellowish, greenish and l)lackish 

 distad. Tegmina and wings pale chromiiun green. Ovipositor with 

 the distal two-fifths paris green, the apex and margins narrowly red- 

 brown. Caudal femora ochraceous on the inflated portion, lined dorsad 

 on the same and with distal section buffy, the whole speckled with red- 

 brown as on the pronotum; caudal tibiae greenish, much stronger 

 distad. 



Measurements. 



Length of body (exclusive of ovipositor), 19 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 5 " 



Length of tegmen, 29.5 " 



Length of caudal femur, 18.3 " 



Length of ovipositor, 11.5 " 



The type is unique. 



*Grammadera forcipata n. sp. 



Type: c? ; Sapucay, Paraguay. February 27, 1905. (William 

 Foster.) [Hebard Collection.] 



Fig. 12. — Grammadera forcipata n. sp. Lateral view of type. (X 3.) 



AlHed to G. pellucida Giglio-Tos, agreeing in the sulcate pronotum 

 and the long slender incurved cerci, but differing in the aljsence of 

 mucronations on the apex of the cerci, in the longer, strongly divided 

 subgenital plate and the subequally broad as high lateral lobes of the 

 pronotum. There is hardly any possibility of this species being the 



