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S. variahiUs n. sj^. 



A rather small though compact species in which the body 

 is more or less varied by lines of green, brown or testaceous 

 and marked with black and white. General color of male 

 brownish testaceous, of female greenish. The face in the 

 male testaceous, in the female green; toj) of head (male) 

 with a rather broad central testaceous line bordered on each 

 side by an equally broad black band which is extended upon 

 the disk of i3ronotum taking in the lateral carinae and ex- 

 tending as a narrow dagger-like stripe upon the dorsal por- 



Fig. 12. — Stirapleura variabilis— female. 



tion of the tegmina : the lateral carinae whitish : there is a 

 rather heavy raised line on lateral side of i^ronotum which 

 is white in both sexes, female with slight indications of 

 black line bordering the eyes above and the white carinae of 

 pronotum otherwise obliterated. Wings with a discal field 

 provided with from four to five rather large blackish spots 

 separated by the general color of wing. Hind femora show- 

 ing indications of oblique dusky bands ; knees also dusky : 

 posterior tibiae with the basal portion whitish testaceous, 

 becoming duksy toward the middle, from which point to 

 the ai^ex they are reddish ; feet whitish, lower surface light 

 testaceous. 



Length of body : d 10.5 mm, 9 17 to 18 mm: pronotum, 

 d 2 mm, 9 8.25 mm; tegmina, c? 8 mm, ? 12nnn: hind 

 femora, d" 7 mm, ? 10.5 mm. 



Bahia Blanca and Pampa Central, where it is rather 

 abundant on dry camp. Not observed in the collections 

 examined. 



S. obsci/ra n. sp. 



A medium sized si3ecies in which the general color is dark 

 brown, more or less variegated or mottled with light 



