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maruined on all but the caudal face with brown; tympanum of the 

 male with an irregular median blotch of very pale greenish surrounded 

 by a vvvy irregular ring of liver brown ; sutural margin narrowed touched 

 mesad with liver Ijrown. 



Measurements. 



Length of body (exclusive of ovipositor), . . 17.3 mm. 18.3 mm. 



Length of proiiotum, 4.3 " 4.3 " 



Length of tegnien, 23.2 " 21 " 



Length of caudal femur, 17 " 16 " 



Length of ovipositor, 5.5 " 



A series of four male and six female paratypic individuals have also 

 been examined. The months represented in the series are December, 

 1904. and January, February and IMarch, 1905. 



In size there is an appreciable amount of variation, in addition to 

 which there also appears to be two forms irrespective of sex, one wdth 

 the tegmina short as in the female type, the other with the tegmina 

 longer and correspondingly slenderer as in the male type. The series 

 also shows that the forking of the median vein is piu-ely a variation 

 not even individual, one tegmen in a number of specimeiLS having the 

 unbranched type, the other the reverse. The female type is the only 

 specimen with the premedian tegminal spot, while the tympanal spot of 

 the male with its surrounding ring is also seen to vary greatly in depth, 

 though always present in that sex. In a number of specimens the 

 tegmina are distinctly yellow proximad, and in one male the w^hole 

 tegmina are of that color. 



TURPILIA stai. 

 *Turpilia paraguayensis n. sp. 



Types: d" and ? ; March 12 ( 9 ) and 21 (cJ), 1905. (William 

 Foster.) [Hebard Collection.] 



Closely allied to T. mexicana Brunner from Oaxaca and T. linearis 

 Rehn from Costa Rica. From mexicana it differs in the general smaller 

 size, the spined dorsal margin of the median femora and the acute 

 subgenital plate of the femora. From linearis it differs in the lateral 

 lobes of the pronotum being as long as deep, the tegmina slightly shorter 

 and the cerci with a distinct apical spine. 



Size moderately large; form elongate. Head with the occiput 

 slightly rounded; fastigium strongly compressed, narrowly sulcate, 

 apex blunt, separated from the blunt apex of the acute angulate facial 

 fastigium by a very shght space; eyes large, subglobose, moderately 



