328 NEW TROPICAL AMERICAN ORTHOPTERA 



on the shaft, on the supra-coxal expansions more crenulato-serrulate. Teg- 

 mina and wings represented by well-veined lateral pads : mesonotum and meta- 

 notum with a distinct median carination. 



Abdomen with the median line of the second, third and fourth segments of 

 the abdomen bearing highly developed, erect, foliaceous appendages, which 

 each consist of a single thickness cephalad and lateral wings to the same caudad, 

 the wings more ample than the single portion and also broader distad than 

 proximad, the margins of the appendages with numerous digitiform points, 

 the appendage on the fourth segment smaller than the other two; fifth to ninth 

 segments with the median Une bearing low appendages, which are more nearly 

 erect fold of the integument than true lobes, of these that on the fifth is the 

 largest, those on the sixth to ninth regularly increasing in size, the sixth the 

 smallest: lateral appendages developed on the second to seventh segments, 

 those on the second to fourth segments very similar in character to those on 

 the median line, but somewhat smaller, those on the other segments simple 

 deplanate lobes with the margins crenulato-digitate : ventral abdominal seg- 

 ments with a median fold of the integument at the caudal margin: supra-anal 

 plate elongate linguiform, decurved, subtectate, carinate mesad: cerci simple, 

 not tapering, not reaching to the apex of the supra-anal plate: subgenital plate 

 relative short, of the usual rostrate mantid type. 



Cephalic coxae three-fourths as long as the pronotum, slightly inflated prox- 

 imad, more slender distad, internal face with the distal lobe moderately devel- 

 oped, margins sparsely denticulate: cephalic femora slender, faintly sigmoid, 

 distal five-eighths tapering, very slender; median discoidal spine the longest of 

 the three ; external margin with five spines, of which the distal one is much the 

 shortest; internal margin with nine spines arranged in this formula (reading 

 from the distal extremity) i II 1 1 1 1 i ; margins of tlie cephalic femora, other than 

 those sections bearing the regular spine series, sparsely denticulate, the medio- 

 ventral one distinctly and regularly serrato-dentate : cephahc tibiae (without 

 claw-) not quite one-third as long as the femur, subsigmoid, the apical claw 

 large, slender, moderately falcate; dorso-distal section with a prominent, fal- 

 cate spine and a smaller, straight spine immediately ventrad of the larger spine 

 and on the internal face; internal margin with a single median, large, straight 

 oblique spine; external margin with a single straight spine distad; ventral 

 margin proximad with three minute serrulations : cephaUc tarsi incomplete. 

 Median and caudal Umbs very slender and elongate: femora subcompressed 

 and faintly arcuate immediately before the distal extremity; genicular lobes 

 subacuminate : caudal tarsi very faintly shorter than the tibiae, very slender, 

 the metatarsus comprising five-eighths of the tarsal length. 



General color antimony yellow, becoming dull buckthorn brown on the 

 abdomen, the shaft of the pronotum washed with ferruginous; Umbs of the body 

 color passing into weak and pale turtle green, the spines fuscous tipped; head 

 with the occiput washed with dull mummy brown, eyes dresden brown. 



Length of body, 25.5 mm.; length of pronotum, 8.3; length of cephahc femur 

 7.5; length of caudal femur, 8.3. 



The type of this interesting species is unique. 



