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Dicliropli!^ ohsci/riis n. sp. 



A moderately large and robust species, with the valves of 

 the ovipositor of female emarginately truncate at apex and 

 the interspace between the mesosternal lobes longer than 

 wide. Lower sulcus of hind femora bright blood-red; hind 

 tibiae purplish, somewhat infu seated near the base. 



General color dull brown ; tegmina mottled with rather large 

 black dots throughout discal field ; venter yellow. Frontal 

 costa wide with the margins blunt, sulcate in vicinity of 

 ocellus : pronotum with the median carina heavy, conspicuous 

 throughout; sides but gently divergent posteriorly, the last 

 transverse sulcus about the middle. Tegmina rather narrow, 

 reaching a trifle beyond the tip of hind femora but not quite 

 to tip of abdomen. Posterior femora heavy at base, not 

 reaching apex of abdomen. Prosternal sj^ine robust, long, 

 and directed posteriorly so as to touch the front edge of 

 mesosternum beyond the point of which it extends a trifle. 



Length f of body, female, 33 mm, of pronotum 7 mm, of 

 tegmina '2'2 mm, of hind femora IH mm. 



A single specimen collected during the month of January 

 on the open camp near Carcarana (A. Kurriger). 



v. c/ieiis Stal. This insect has not been recognized among 

 the various formes studied, but is included here because of its 

 recorded Uruguayan habitat. Monte Video, Uruguay (Stal). 



I). lenniixcdfiis Stal. Not recognized by the writer, but 

 reported as coming from Buenos Aires (Stal). 



/>. jHiffiK'/is Stal. Buenos Aires (Stal): Resistencia, Cliaco 

 (Giglio-Tos). 



1'. bico/or Giglio-Tos. San Lorenza, Juju.y (Giglio-Tos). 



/.'. fu-scKs Thunb. Specimens from the Province of Santa 

 Fe are referred to this species (O. Thomas). 



I>icli i'(>iihis cine reus n. sp. 



General color dull cinereous vai'ied with brown and 

 testaceous. Head in femah^ rather large, in male small: eyes 

 quite large and protruding; fastigium of the vertex of male 

 narrower than the diameter of second joint of antenna, in 



