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Phasmidae 

 Paraphasma paulense new species (Plate X, figs. 4 and 5.) 



Apparently allied to P. quadratum (Bates), from Tapajos, 

 Brazil, agreeing in the relatively long (for the genus) tegniina, 

 but differing in the non-emarginate subgenital plate, tiie longer 

 mesosternuni and tegmina, although the body is of similar size, 

 and in the generally blackish fuscous coloration with greenish 

 venation and greenish points scattered along the tegminal veins. 



Type. — cf ; Cantareira, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. February, 

 1914. (E. Garbe.) [Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Type no. 5347.] 



Size medium: form moderately elongate: surface in general smooth. Head 

 short, moderately broad, its greatest length faintly greater than the width 

 across eyes; caudal portion of head slightly narrowing eaudad of the eyes: 

 ocelli well indicated, placed in a triangle: eyes prominent, slightly flattened 

 subglobose when seen from the dorsum, nearly circular in basal outline: anten- 

 nae slightly surpassing the apex of the abdomen when extended eaudad, 

 relatively heavy, segments, aside from the proximal few, very elongate. Prono- 

 tum very slightly shorter than the head, rectangulate, moderately longitudinal, 

 the greatest width contained about one and one-half times in the length; 

 cei)halic margin arcuate-emarginate, caudal margin truncate, lateral margins 

 weakly sigmoid; transverse impression arcuate, the curve eaudad, median 

 carina obsolete. Mesonotum one and one-half times as long as the pronotum, 

 subequal in width except in the supra-coxal section, the general width contained 

 about two and one-half times in the greatest length of the mesonotum, the 

 surface with paired areas of subobsolete and rounded granulations, which have 

 a generally longitudinal disposition. Tegmina elongate (for the group), in 

 length equal to that of the pro- and mesonotum combined, in form acute 

 elongate-elliptical, its greatest width (when normally arched) contained al)out 

 twice in the length of the tegmen; margins regular except that the sutural 

 margin near the spine is somewhat anipliate, more so on the left than on the 

 right tegmen; apex rounded acute; spine produced, acute, directed laterad; 

 venation prominent. Wings reaching to the apex of the sixth alidominal 

 segment, when expanded broad, the width faintly greater than one-half the 

 length of the wing; apex of the wings rounded rectangulate. Ventral surface 

 of the head, prosternum, mesosternum and metasternum with a distinct, 

 moderately continuous sulcus, which broadens out on the mesosternum into a 

 concavity involving the whole plate: abdomen moderately depressed, the 

 segments of moderate length; seventh dorsal abdominal segment somewhat 

 broadened, with a distinct medio-longitudinal carination; eighth dorsal seg- 

 ment slightly shorter than the seventh segment, narrowing distad, tlie tlorsal 

 surface carinate, the distal margin with a l)road, median, V-shajied emargina- 

 tion; ninth dorsal segment faintly shorter \\v.\n the eighth segm(>nt, moderately 



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