334 NEW TROPICAL AMERICAN ORTHOPTERA 



General color of the dorsal and lateral surfaces ranging from dark olive and 

 dusky olive green to dark ivy green, the base color of the tegmina ranging from 

 seal brown to fuscous black, strumose areas on the head, pronotum and pleura 

 zinc orange to yellow ocher. 



Eyes uniform tawny, dresden brown or mars brown; antennae blackish, 

 proximad flecked with oUve green. 



Tegmina with the venation completely outUned in yellow ocher to oUve- 

 ocher. Wings infumate with fuscous, the coloration intensified to infuscation 

 distad and around the periphery of the radiate field, the costa and the longitud- 

 inal veins heavil}' pencilled with fuscous, the disk very narrowly and weakly 

 tinted with antimony yellow proximad. 



Abdomen with the greater portion of the dorsal surface ranging in shade 

 from orange to yellow ocher, the lateral faces of the abdomen blue black; in 

 the male the yellow dorsal surface is hardly interrupted, the distal margin of 

 the segments laterad, and to a certain degree ventrad, lined with dusky green- 

 blue, the ventral surface of the abdominal segments largely verdegris green, 

 with each segment, excepting the two distal ones, with a triangular figure of 

 dull wax yellow; apex of the abdomen in the male blue black; in the female the 

 yellow of the dorsal surface is broken into broad distal borders of the segments, 

 all of the remainder of the abdomen blue black, the ventral surface occasion- 

 ally with faint traces of ventral pale markings, ovipositor jaws dull wax 

 yellow. 



Cephalic coxae with the strumose area colored similarly to those on the head 

 and thoracic segments. Cephalic and median limbs blue black, the following 

 pattern more decided in the male than in the female and in the latter occasion- 

 ally subobsolete, femora lined dorsad and ventrad with the pale color which 

 washes the strumosities of the body, tibiae lined ventrad with the same (on 

 cephahc hmbs variable), tarsi distinctly lined dorsad. Caudal femora with 

 the external face of the general color, weakly tinted ventro-laterad with hes- 

 sian bro-wn; ventral and internal surfaces ox-blood red; incomplete pregeni- 

 cular annulus present only on the ventral and internal faces, internal genicular 

 lobe and ventral portion of the external genicular lobe primuline yellow; longi- 

 tudinal carinae and portion of the external paginal pattern rather finely lined 

 with olive-yellow to wax j^ellow: caudal tibiae of the general color: caudal 

 tarsi with an external hning of wax yellow present in the male sex and occa- 

 sionally to a slight extent in the female as well. 



Measurements (in millimeters) 



Greatest 

 Length of Length of caudal Length of Length of 



body pronotum ■width of tegmen caudal 



pronotal femur 



cf disk 



Rio Mato, Venezuela, allo- 

 type 26 4.4 3.6 21.7 14.2 



Rio Mato, Venezuela, 



paratype 25.5 4.6 3.5 21 13.5 



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Rio Mato, Venezuela, ^ype 34 6.4 5 28.8 18.3 



Rio Mato, Venezuela, 



paratype 35 6.5 5 27.6 17.3 



