3S4 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[Aug., 



at the apex. Terminal dorsal abdominal segment of the male with a 

 very slight and broad median emargination ; supra-anal plate reflexed, 

 roughly semicircular; cerci stout at the base, short, tapering, the tips 

 moderately hooked, acute; subgenital plate moder- 

 ately produced, the apical portion much narrower 

 than the base, apical margin truncate, false styles 

 short and dentiform. Ovipositor about as long 

 as the pronotum and half of the head, bent arcuate, 

 broad, apex moderately acute, distal half of the 

 dorsal margin distinctly crenulate, of the ventral 

 margin obsoletely crenulate; subgenital plate small, 

 rectangulate with the apex minutely rectangulate 

 emarginate. Cephalic femora but little shorter 

 than the head and pronotum together, unarmed; 

 dorso-caudal margin of the tibiae with four to five 

 spines, one of which is placed at the distal ex- 

 tremity of the proximal inflation. Median femora 

 equal to about half the length of the caudal femora, 

 armed on the ventro-cephalic margin with two to 

 three small, recumbent spines. Caudal femora 

 slightly shorter than the length of the body, moder- 

 ately inflated distad and with spines none or one 

 on the ventro-cephalic margin; caudal tibiae dis- 

 tinctly exceeding the femora. 

 General color buff-yellow becoming apple green on the tegmina, 

 exposed portion of the wings and limbs. Eyes chestnut ; antennae 

 very broadly and irregularly annulate with dragon's blood red. Pro- 

 notum with the disk regularly and the lateral lobes sparingly dotted 



Fig. 15. — Hyper- 



, phrona signata n. 



sp. Dorsal view 



of head , pronotum 



and tympanum of 



.~ male type. (X 5.) 



Fig. 16. — Hyperphrona signata n. sp. 



Dorsal \iew of apex of male abdo- Fig. 17. — Hyperphrona signata n. sp. 

 : men. (x 6.) Lateral view of o^^positor. (X 5.) 



with dragon's blood red, the margins being rather regularly checked 

 with the same. 



Tegmina sometimes^ with an ochraceous premedian desiccated spot, 



On the left tegmen of the female type. 



