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Fig. 15. — Rehm.\ viitdrik. Tip 

 ok .\bd()men uf m.\i.e from 



.\I!()Vr.. 



pronotum tinged with reddish brown dorsall j and the posterior border 

 of tlie lateral lobes quite conspicuously margined with creamy white; 

 elytra tinged above, especiall}^ along the lateral margins of the tym- 

 panum, with brown; abdomen shaded with 

 light brown; spines of the legs tipped with 

 ])lack. 



Measareincnt.s. — Length, pronotum, 7.25 

 mm.; elytra, 12.5; posterior femora, 20; 

 width, pronotum on the hinder portion of 

 the disk, 4; posterior femora at broadest 

 point, 3.5. 



7//7A.— Cat. No. 10162 U. S. National Museum. 



Speciinttis exandned. — One male, the type (tig. 11), Victoria, Guer- 

 rero, Mexico. O. W. Barrett, collector. 



This interesting insect bears quite an olnious resemblance to the 

 Neobarrettia impei\fecta of Kehn, but the larger and more pointed 

 elytra and larger size will readil}^ serve to distinguish it from that 

 species. 



REHNIA SPINOSA, new species. 



Descrl]>ti(m. — Male, female unknown. Structurally ver}" closely 

 allied to victoria', but bears scarcely any resemblance to that species. 



Fig. 1(3.— Rehm.\ spinosa. Adult male. 



The eyes are even more prominent than in rictorix and the head is 

 proportionately broader, being broader than the anteriorl}' iiared 

 pronotum, which is shaped as described under the preceding species, 

 but consideral)h^ more elevated posteriorly and anteriorly. Proster- 

 nal spines slightly longer than in vietoriie, but the armature of the 

 legs and the formation of the wings and abdomen are as described 

 under that species. The cerci are, however, longer and less incurved 

 apically (tig. 17). 



General color uniforml}- yellow; e3^es brownish yellow; tympanum 

 of the elytra dark brown, and the spines of all the femora are wholly 

 l)lack, and those of the tiWnv. are black at the l)ase and apex, the middle 

 part yellowish; pronotum margined anteriorly with a tine line of 

 l)lack and on the anterior border and along the posterior margin of 



